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Bachelor Seminar Econometrics
Description
Our chair continuously offers the Bachelor seminar "Econometrics".
In this seminar you learn about Financial Market Analysis, Forecasting, Empirical Asset Pricing and Machine Learning.
Students have to write a seminar paper and present the results to the other participants in a blocked seminar.
Requirements
- An independent empirical of quantitative study forms the core of the work.
- For topic selection, please hand in a preference list with at least 3 topics.
- Scope: Alone 10 pages (+/-1 page), 12 pages (+/-1 page) for groups of 2 and 15 pages (+/-1 page) for groups of 3.
- In group work, students must clearly indicate who was responsible for which part of the work (it is possible for more than one student in the group to be responsible for a chapter). Each student will receive an individual mark.
- Use of an appropriate statistical software (such as R, MATLAB, STATA, etc.) is recommended.
- A mere literature review is not sufficient.
- The seminar paper can be written either in German or in English.
- Further tips and formal requirements can be found in the guidelines.
- Assessment: 60% written work, 40% presentation.
- A LaTeX-Template for writing the Seminar Paper can be foundhere.
Dates
- Kick-off meeting:
- Date: 20.01.2025
- Time: 12:00 - 13:00
- Location: Bldg. C3 1, Room tbd
- Note: Please note that in this meeting only the topics are beeing presented. The topic assignment respectively the preparation period starts at a later date (between 01.02. and 01.04.) and is going to be announced during the kick-off-meeting.
- Submission: tbd
- Presentation: tbd