Scientific work at the Institute for Banking and Finance

The Institute for Banking and Financing offers an introduction in scientific work every semester, which provides all the knowledge necessary for a thesis or seminar thesis at the institute. A special focus is on working with the statistical analysis software R. Participation is mandatory for all students who want to write a seminar paper or thesis at the Institute for Banking and Finance in the academic year.

The introduction to academic work at the Institute of Banking and Finance can be found as a learning module on ILIAS in the winter semester 2024/2025. The learning module includes an introduction to scientific work as well as an introduction to working with the statistical software R.

You can reach the ILIAS course via this link.

Furthermore, on October 28th and 29th, from 09:15 to 14:30 there'll be an online presentation in German, via this WebEx Link.

Each seminar and final thesis at the Institute for Banking and Finance comprises a theoretical and a quantitative part. Depending on the topic, it is an empirical or quantitative analysis. This requires the use of statistical-numerical software such as R, Matlab, Python or Stata. In the ILIAS learning module for the introduction to scientific work you will learn the basic knowledge of R which you need to get started. The contents linked here also provide some basic knowledge.