Detailed information about the schedule in the current semester can be found on the relevant seminar pages (just click on the links below).

Units on Fridays from 09:00 to 10:30 are dealing with StatMath research content, the other units with research in finance. Learning time management on the part of the students is also an important skill of the course.

General table of contents:

Finance Research Seminar:

• Corporate Finance
• Asset Pricing
• Quantitative Methods in Finance

StatMath Research Seminar:

• applied statistical research in economics, in finance, and in the social sciences
• Bayesian methods
• computational statistics
• mathematical statistics
• mathematical finance
• Monte Carlo methods
• optimization
• stochastic modeling
• time-series analysis

A full attendance requirement applies for the selected seminar presentations.

timeline for RS2:

*June 2: submission of list of 7 papers online (link tba)

*June 9: selection of a list of 3 from the 7 by Prof. Hornik

*June 29: submission of synopses for 2 out of 3 (link tba)

*July 1: presentations via MS Teams (talk ~15 minutes, ~5 minutes for Q&A)

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Close to the end of each semester, students in the science track provide a list of 7 papers/talks presented in the Finance or StatMath research seminars during the semester to Professors Jankowitsch and Hornik (please see above the specific timeline). Please select only the Research Seminar talks that were attended.

They will then randomly pick 3 papers/talks, from which in turn students can pick 2 (out of the three) for elaborating and producing a written synopsis (about 2 pages each) of the paper/talk.

The synopses are to be presented to and discussed with Professors Jankowitsch and Hornik at the end of the semester. In addition, questions directly regarding the talk have to be answered during this discussion, e.g.: What were the most critical comments made?

The grade consists of three parts:

- Quality of synopsis 1 (20%)

- Quality of synopsis 2 (20%)

- Quality of the presentation (60%)