4804648: Research Seminar in International Financial Services

Beschreibung

This module helps the student to further broaden and intensify his knowledge and methodological skills needed for his dissertation.
This module could focus on Banking, Finance or Taxation.

Ziele

Based on lectures offered on the master's level, this module helps to enable the student

• to further intensify the existing knowledge and methodology needed for the dissertation project;
• to independently develop a research concept for specific research questions;
• to develop, analyze and synthesize new complex ideas;
• to develop the scientific and/or cultural progress for an academic or non-academic environment.

Lernergebnisse

Students will be able to:

• Have an advanced and intensified overview on specific topics needed for the dissertation project;
• Develop their own research project;
• Apply the methodological structures of these specific topics for their dissertation project.

Lehrmethoden

Lecture or seminar or self-study, possibly combined with preparation and presentation of a paper.

Voraussetzungen (inhaltlich)

Research Design, Theories of the Firm, Research Methods in International Financial Services

Literatur

• Cochrane, J. (2001). Asset Pricing. Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Specific articles and books on Empirical Finance

Kommentar

Module availability:
On application at an internationally renown PhD program, such as organised e. g. by London School of Economics, University of Constance, Zürich, St. Gallen, Innsbruck.