Organization in the winter term '20/'21
This semester, all courses of our chair will take place online, unless explicitly announced otherwise. Please register for your courses in the KIS to receive the OLAT access data by mail.
Lectures offered by our chair
Master: Specialization Financial Economics
Master: Specialization Economic Theory
Master: Lectures from other Specializations
Lectures in Winter Term
Lectures for Bachelor students
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Content:
- Economic Markets
- Money markets and financial markets
- IS-LM Model
- AS-AD Model
- Basics of growth theory
- Employment, inflation und technological progress
- Small open economies
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Jan Wenzelburger
Supervisor:
Helena Krebs
Lectures and central exercise:
The lectures and the central exercise are available online as recordings. Log in to the KIS (lecture page) to receive the password for the OLAT course at the beginning of the course.
Tutorials:
The tutorials take place in person. The registration for the tutorials is done via the KIS. (You register twice in total at KIS: once for the lecture and once for a tutorial). To comply with the corona rules, you will be assigned to one tutorial for the entire semester.
Exam:
To be announced.
The lecture is held in German.
Further Information and Materials:
Bachelor Seminar
Content:
Selected topics in micro- and macroeconomics.
The topics are presented and allocated in the first meeting.
Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Jan Wenzelburger
Organisation:
Register via KIS.
Information about the first meeting are sent to you via e-mail upon successful registration.
Lectures for Master students
Advanced Macroeconomics
Content:
- Extending intermediate macroeconomics
- Micro-founded macroeconomics
- Dynamical-systems approach ('agent-based models'):
- finite planning horizons,
- non-rational behaviour,
- heterogeneous, interacting agents
- Focus on OLG models and growth models
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Jan Wenzelburger
Supervisor:
Jan Münning
Lectures:
The lectures will be available online as recordings.
The lecture is held in English.
Further Information and Materials:
Choice under Uncertainty
Content:
- Expected Utility Theory
- Risk Measures
- Risk Management
- Prospect Theory
- Cumulative Prospect Theory
Lecturer:
Dr. Oscar Nieto-Cerezo
Lectures:
The lectures will be available online as recordings.
The lecture is held in English.
Further Information and Materials:
Master Seminar
Important:
Attendance to (at least) one of our lectures is a prerequisite for participation in the Master seminar.
Content:
The topics will be assigned individually based on the attended lectures.
Organization:
The topics will be assigned by Prof. Wenzelburger. Please contact him via email.
The results are usually presented in the PhD Seminar, which is also attended by the students of the Master seminar.
PhD Program
PhD Seminar
Content:
Presentation and discussion of the current research of the PhD students.
Organisation:
The dates of the meetings are fixed in consultation with the chair of microeconomics and the chair of Ressourcen- und Energieökonomik.
Lectures in the Summer Term
Lectures for Bachelor Students
Introduction to Microeconomics
Content:
Theory of Consumer Choice
- Demand, Comparative Statics
- Labour Supply Theory
- Decision under Uncertainty
- Intertemporal Decisions
Production Theory
- Costs, long-term, short-term
- Profit Maximization
- Derivation of the Supply
Equilibrium Theory
- Partial and General Equilibrium
- Market Entry Decisions
- Welfare
Lectures for Master Students
Dynamics of Financial Markets
Content:
- Mean-variance portfolio analysis
- Dynamic models with heterogeneous beliefs
- Evolution of prices, portfolios and market shares
- Endogeneous option prices
- Multiperiod Planning Horizons
Economics of Banking
Content:
- The Role of Capital Markets
- Liquidity Insurance
- Theory of the Banking Firm
- The Bank as a Portfolio Manager
- Risk Management in Banking
- Credit Rationing
- Bank Runs
- Macroeconomics of Banking
Insurance Economics
Content:
- Expected utility theory
- Demand for insurance
- Basic insurance principles
- Adverse selection
- Moral hazard
Master Seminar
Important:
Attendance to (at least) one of our lectures is a prerequisite for participation in the Master seminar.
Content:
The topics will be assigned individually based on the attended lectures.
This lecture also takes place in the summer term.
All relevant information will be uploaded here in time.
Economics of Electronic Markets
Content:
- The electronic trading facility Xetra
- Allocation mechanism
- Games with incomplete information
- Theory of auctions
This lecture only takes place in the summer term.
All relevant information will be uploaded here in time.
Quantitative Methods in Economics
Content:
- One-Dimensional Dynamics
- Multidimensional Dynamics
- Linear Parametric Regression Models
- Generalized Linear Models - Binary Regression
PhD Program
PhD Seminar
Content:
Presentation and discussion of the current research of the PhD students.
This lecture also takes place in the summer term.
All relevant information will be uploaded here in time.