Teaching profile
HU Berlin, Bachelor level:- Financial Economics for Citizens:
The course covers what citizens need to know about the management of their own financial matters and about the management of public finances. Topics include methods for capital budgeting in the private and public sphere and the valuation of public policies (social discounting). A special topic are methods for assessing sovereign credit risk. The course also includes a segment on fixed-income portfolio management.
This course is offered in two versions, one of which is for econ and business students while the other is a financial "literacy" course for students from other fields, including students from TU Berlin and FU Berlin.
- Financial Economics for Governance:
This course covers methods for measuring private-sector cost of capital and business valuation. A special topic are methods for assessing business contributions to society. The course also includes a segment on stock portfolio management. Prerequisite: Financial Economics for Citizens.
I am responsible for HU's introductory course on financial economics at the master level, i.e., the course "Finance Theory". This is a fairly technical course introducing students to asset pricing and some corporate finance (Modigliani and Miller). The course emphasizes connections between finance theory and macroeconomics and also discusses the status of financial economics as a field of science.
Berlin School of Economics (BSE), PhD level:
I teach part of the core course in the finance track and also offer a topics course.
Past teaching at other business schools:
2007-2009, MIT Sloan School of Management:
MBA course: Options and Futures Markets.
Evaluation results: 2009 2008 2007
2010, Vienna Graduate School of Finance:
PhD course: Financial Economics
2016, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management:
MBA course: Corporate Financial Policy