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Professional Competence
  • kennen die allgemeinen Grundlagen der wissenschaftlichen Methoden
  • formulieren eine Forschungsidee und begründen diese.
  • arbeiten sich von einer Forschungsidee zur Forschungsfrage für ihr Thesisprojekt vor.
  • grenzen eine Forschungsidee schrittweise zu einem realisierbaren Vorhaben ein.
Personal Competence
  • Listen carefully, read and repeat, practice until they understand the logic and mathematics behind models.
  • Work together and motivate students who tend to give up as a reaction to the difficulty of mathematical problems.
  • Take responsibility and organize/explain solutions to others who have problems and tend to give up.
Social Competence
  • Understand and critically discuss the arguments of fellow students.
  • Work together in small groups to solve assignments and small examples discussed in class.
  • Evaluate the solutions of fellow students; explain carefully why they might be right or wrong.
  • Understand the flaws and problems of fellow students, reaction without offense.
  • React to other opinions and defend their solution without being offended.
Methodological Competence
  • Know the requirements for the basic models of portfolio optimization and market equilibrium theory.
  • Understand the implications and flaws of these models.
  • Apply these models in changing market conditions.
  • Find and use the model needed in a specific situation/setting.
  • Apply the models in individual assignments and in a group business game.
  • Evaluate outcomes and discuss them critically.
  • Understand the applicability and validity of the different models.
  • Evaluate models and decide upon which of the models fits their needs best.
Professional Competence
  • Know the basic asset classes and their respective financial instruments.
  • Know the difference between strategical and tactical asset allocation.
  • List the requirements and repeat the basic concepts of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Know the difference between Sharpe-Ratio and Information-Ratio
  • List the requirements and how to derive the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
  • Know how to extend the Single-index-Model to Multi-Factor Models.
  • Know the concepts of Arbitrage and how to derive the resulting model of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
  • Understand the basic financial instruments and their pricing.
  • Describe the optimal investment process.
  • Understand portfolio statistics and underlying statistical concepts.
  • Explain the difference between risky and risk-free assets.
  • Describe the outcomes of portfolio theory in a risk-return diagram.
  • Understand the concept of risk, its decomposition into unsystematic and systematic risk, and the effects of (naïve) diversification.
  • Understand the concept of beta in the Single-Index Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and the market risk-premium in context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
  • Understand the concept of beta and factor portfolios in the Multi-Factor-Model.
  • Understand the concepts of Arbitrage.
  • Understand why APT is a much more general concept of market equilibrium than CAPM.
  • Understand the working and pricing of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the term structure of interest rates and their influence on the prices of fixed income securities.
  • Understand the implications of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis on financial markets.
  • Calculate the risk and return of financial instruments based on observable market values.
  • Calculate the Minimum-Variance-Portfolio.
  • Calculate the optimal risky portfolio.
  • Calculate the idiosyncratic and the market-specific risk of a portfolio.
  • Calculate an optimal portfolio in the context of Single-Index-Models.
  • Calculate the Security Market Line in the CAPM and derive Arbitrage Opportunities thereon.
  • Calculate Bond Yields, Duration and other measures of fixed income securities and fixed income portfolios.
  • Know how to design an event study to test and identify flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
  • Perform financial statement analysis.
  • Estimate Index-Models, and how to derive an optimal portfolio in this context.
  • Analyze financial instruments in the common context of Mean-Variance Theory.
  • Understand the Two-Fund Separation Theorem and derive the Capital Market Line.
  • Find Arbitrage Opportunities.
  • Relate different concepts of market equilibrium.
  • Identify and exploit arbitrage opportunities.
  • Identify the efficiency of financial markets.
  • Combine different assets in an optimal portfolio.
  • Relate the concept of the risk-return tradeoff to the optimal allocation of assets.
  • Relate the concept of the Efficient Market Theory to observed market conditions.
  • Evaluate the different models in the context of changing market conditions.
  • Decide upon investment opportunities by evaluating any type of equity and fixed income securities.
  • Evaluate equity and fixed income instruments.
  • Evaluate optimal allocations of assets in the Markowitz Context.
Personal Competence
  • Listen carefully to those vis-à-vis, especially in critical situations
  • Tolerate feedback
  • Recognize potential for improvement in their own behavior
  • Cooperate with other students
  • Assess and justify the selected approach to solutions
  • Reflect on and assess their own actions. Explain themselves and adapt any new behavior to the group values
  • Through their own behaviour, influence group processes and reflect on the effects.
  • Support colleagues.
  • Influence group processes through empathetic behavior
  • Reflect on these processes."
Social Competence
  • accept peer feedback in an appreciative and constructive way
  • recognize group dynamic processes
  • accept not only their own but also other members' positions
  • pay attention to colleagues
  • care about other team members in case they need help
  • designate responsibility to persons for different tasks
  • explain themselves and their actions in their teams.
  • Assume responsibility for team members.
  • Compensate for differences and tensions.
  • Analyze team structures, evaluate interrelations and are able to create a positive working environment
  • Defend measures taken with confidence to others
  • Contribute actively to build constructive group rules.
Methodological Competence
  • Conduct literature research independently
  • Apply reading techniques to grasp new texts
  • Analyze the, for them personally, most suitable strategies for effective and efficient reading and learning
  • Consider and assess their own, as well as unfamiliar ways of solving problems
  • Analyze their experience of group dynamics and the communication behavior of persons involved
  • Assess their own and the behavior of their team members through predefined criteria and consider their personal values, as well as the values of others
  • Receive and give feedback, assess it for themselves and decide on the validity and weight for implementation
Professional Competence
  • Name the main tasks and objectives of Business Administration as science
  • List fundamental philosophical positions for economic activity
  • Illustrate the principles of science or scientific work
  • Describe processes which are responsible for teambuilding
  • Illustrate the intention of citation styles and style manuals
  • Differentiate between sources in the context of scientific work
  • Compare scientific sources and argue differences
  • Develop a common approach for complex tasks
  • Evaluate working practices and approaches to solutions when fulfilling given tasks
Personal Competence
  • tolerieren die Meinungen der anderen Studierenden, auch wenn sie dem eigenen Verständnis widersprechen (z.B. bei der Besprechung der Übungen oder im Diskussionsforum)
  • kümmern sich selbständig und zuverlässig um die Aufarbeitung der Vorlesungsinhalte (insb. Übungszettel, Folien und Studium der Pflichtliteratur)
  • beurteilen ihren Lernfortschritt und ihr Engagement in den Vorlesungen, in den Übungen und im Selbststudium (z.B. Wortmeldungen im Unterricht, Erfolg bei der Bearbeitung der Übungszettel)
  • identifizieren ihre Stärken und Schwächen und passen ihr Engagement entsprechend an (z.B. Wiederholung der Vorlesungsinhalte, Reflektion der Ergebnisse in den Teilprüfungen)
  • unterstützen sich gegenseitig in Vorlesungen, Übungen und Selbststudium und helfen einander bei Fragestellungen (z.B. im Diskussionsforum oder bei der Gruppenarbeit)
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