Introduction to Advanced Finance (WiSe 2024/25)


Course Number
048265

Field(s) of Study
Master

University Calendar

Learnweb Platform

Type
Lecture

Course Language
englisch


Course schedule

Day Time Frequency Date Room
Monday 16:00- 18:00 weekly 07.10.2024- 27.01.2025 Schlossplatz 46, H 3

Notice

This course provides an overview of the main concepts in finance. The class mainly focuses on investment topics, but also comprises fundamentals of corporate finance. The investment part contains, for example, foundations of the investment environment and process, the relation between risk and return, Markowitz portfolio optimization, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and its extensions (theoretical derivations and empirical tests). The corporate finance part focuses on optimal capital structure choices and a valuation case.

Lecturers

  • Prof. Dr. Nadja Guenster (responsible)
  • Christoph Domnick (accompanying)
  • Luca Comanici (accompanying)