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Professional Competence
  • Show expert knowledge in risk management and financial institutions and regulatory standards.
  • Characterize financial risk classes.
  • Interpret the results of relevant risk measures.
  • Describe pay off diagrams and valuation methods of derivatives.
  • Describe the use of derivatives to control risks.
  • Understand the role of different types of financial institutions.
  • Understand the difference between acting on financial markets and financial intermediation.
  • Describe the specific risks of financial intermediation.
  • Understand the main goals of bank regulations and the tools to reach them.
  • Describe and argue the importance of financial institutions for the whole economy.
  • Use risk measures to quantify risk and calculate them.
  • Find suitable hedging strategies.
  • Valuate derivatives with the model of arbitrage.
  • Apply the methods on a complex topic and are able to present the findings in a report
  • Identify potential sources of risks of financial institutions.
  • Apply the appropriate risk measures for specific risk classes.
  • Analyze the use of hedging strategies in given examples.
  • Find the fair value of derivatives by using parameters (Greeks).
  • Analyze specific risks of banks.
  • Identify the consequences of regulations.
  • Conceptualize a risk management process, which identifies and quantifies risks and displays the design/use of hedging tools and their valuation.
  • Design optimal processes to control for risk.
  • Combine the roles of financial institutions and legal regulations to understand financial markets.
  • Evaluate risk management processes.
  • Asses the consequences of regulations on financial institutions and the economy.
Personal Competence
  • lernen das selbstständige Initiieren von Projekten
  • können andere Fachperspektiven bewusst einnehmen
  • können verbindliche Standards professioneller mündlicher und schriftlicher Kommunikation kennen, verstehen und anwenden
  • können wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse angemessen in projektbezogene Situationen und Kontexte übertragen und einbringen
  • können eigenes Problemlöseverhalten reflektieren und selbst regulieren
Social Competence
  • Listen to and acknowledge the arguments of fellow students
  • Find solutions to small case studies in teams
  • Evaluate the solutions of colleagues, study and compare these with own solution
  • Consider new or alternative solution approaches and link these with your own approach
  • Represent and defend your own solution in light of critique
Methodological Competence
  • Know the basic types of international marketing strategies
  • Explain and interpret the prerequisites for these strategies
  • Apply basic international marketing models in new situations
  • Compare alternative marketing approaches, identify similarities and differences
  • Summarize the various strategies and approaches, evaluate these
  • Determine whether certain models or approaches can be implemented in concrete situations, and choose fitting models/ approaches in ideal situations.
Professional Competence
  • Know the most important instruments for the development and implementation of marketing measures as well as types of international marketing strategies.
  • Understand the most important influencing factors on decisions made in international marketing processes, can describe the most important marketing strategies for various actors.
  • Correctly apply international marketing instruments.
  • Identify the relevant influential factors for the international marketing process, analyze the consequences of entrepreneurial decisions in an international environment.
  • Develop fitting marketing strategies depending on the company type or level of internationalization.
  • Evaluate marketing strategies and their fit in various situations.
  • Understand Digital Platforms and Electronic Markets, their dynamics, and impact on industries and value chains.
  • Transformation of international marketing driven by digital markets.
Personal Competence
  • manage cognition, presence and awareness during lecture and seminar
  • self-evaluate contributions
Social Competence
  • listen to elaborations by instructor and fellow students;
  • perceive social interactions and introduction of interactive routines
  • give answers when asked;
  • participate in interactive practice;
  • collaborate in teams to solve problems;
  • coordinate contents and critique with fellow study team
  • Discuss and compare fellow student´s contributions to case studies and analysis of real phenomena;
  • give constructive feedback
  • identify ideologies and differentiate from pure theory;
  • challenge and reflect own arguments on theoretical grounds
  • prepare and present a critique (essential arguments, central categories, limitations etc.) of theoretical analysis, highlighting open and contradictory issues of the topic
Methodological Competence
  • Illustrate the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by international economics as a discipline
  • Comprehend basic assumptions and their effects on the modeling process of international trade theories
  • Understand the effects of certain internal and external parameter changes on the employability of different theoretical approaches
  • Apply the Gravity, the Ricardian, the Heckscher-Ohlin and the Standard Trade Model to explain patterns and volumes in international trade
  • Apply the Asset, the Monetary, and the Real Exchange Rate approach to the determination and behavior of exchange rates
  • constitute a constructive generic framework; that may be broken down in sub-processes or changed in sequences to best capture real economic phenomena
  • compare employability of different theoretical approaches for the explanation of underlying economics and compare outcomes
  • Create a set of criteria to assess different theoretical approaches
  • Construct a table of different theoretical results when analysing real phenomena depending on the assumptions and explanatory variables used in each theory
  • Explain the reasoning behind different theoretical approaches and their limitations to explain real world phenomena
  • Evaluate political actions as an outcome of different theoretical approaches in international economics
Professional Competence
  • Illustrate patterns and trends in international trade
  • Outline theories of international trade theory and policy
  • Summarize models of exchange rate determination
  • Describe international financial markets
  • Explain on theoretical grounds why countries trade and why governments may restrict international trade
  • Classify national income and balance of payments accounts
  • Apply an appropriate theoretical approach to explain real phenomena in international economics
  • Apply a theoretical approach to determine the short-run and long-run behavior of exchange rates
  • Differentiate effects of various policy intervention on international trade patterns and volumes
  • Point out the effects of changes in international exchange rates
  • Distinguish government financial intervention with monetary policy
  • Identify challenges in international trade and monetary policy
  • Forecast international trade dynamics under given policy frameworks
  • Develop scenarios for the short-run and long-term behavior of exchange rates and monetary regimes
  • Test theories of international economics to explain past developments in world trade and finance
  • Judge the applicability of theoretical approaches in international economics to evaluate and predict future behavior of market participants
Personal Competence
  • repeat the contents of lectures, exercises and case studies in a self-organized way
  • assess their own learning progress during lectures, exercises, case studies and self-study (e.g., participation in discussions, solving exercises, presenting solutions)
  • identify their own strengths and weaknesses
  • tolerate different opinions and working styles (e.g., during classroom discussions, in online forums)
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