FIN 790 – Seminar Thesis

You must have successfully completed at least one finance course (FIN 5XX) offered by one of the chairs of the Finance Area in order to participate. As most topics require empirical work, some knowledge of statistics and econometrics is useful and participants should be motivated to work empirically. We highly recommend to complete the CC502 Applied Econometrics course before writing your seminar thesis. You should write your seminar paper in English.

Please refer to the website of finance area for more information on the assignment process.

Most of the topics in Finance require empirical work. If you apply for an empirical seminar topic at a chair of the Finance Area and your knowledge about STATA and financial databases is limited, you should also take the course FIN 604 – Stata in Finance which provides you with basic knowledge about programming with STATA and the use of financial databases. The tutorials typically take place around the starting date of the writing phase. Please consult this website for more information.

In this course, specific topics related to financial markets and financial institutions will be dealt with in depth. Students will have to work on the main topic of the seminar in some detail and write a term paper on a specific sub-topic that will be allocated to them. In the seminar, students will present their own paperand participate actively in the classroom discussions.

Students will learn how to work on a research paper independently. Thus, the seminar paper also serves as preparation for a master thesis. Furthermore, students learn how to present research results and how to contribute to scientific discussions.

You should write your seminar paper in English.

• Paper: 2/3
• Presentation: 1/3

Further guidance on the seminar paper (e.g., formal requirements) is provided in this document (PDF, 323 kB).

• FSS2020 (PDF, 250 kB)
• HWS2020 (PDF, 256 kB)
• FSS2021 (PDF, 676 kB)
• HWS2021 (PDF, 323 kB)
• FSS2022 (PDF, 308 kB)
• HWS2022 (PDF, 281 kB)