Teaching profile: courses I teach at HU Berlin

Bachelor level: A sequence of two courses on finance and society/citizenship:

• Financial Economics for Citizens: The course covers what one needs to know about one's 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.
  The 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.
  

Master level: I teach the main 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 and macroeconomics and also discusses the status of financial economics as a field of science.

PhD level: I contribute to the core course in the finance track of the Berlin School of Economics. Moreover, I 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

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