M1 Financial Market Decisions

"Financial Market Decisions" is a 6 ECTS/4 contact hours mandatory module in the first semester of our International Business and Finance master programme. Students understand the essentials of mathematical decision theory as well as the psychological aspects of market participant behavior. They critically reflect the concepts for performance and risk measurement which are used to support decision taking in financial markets. They understand how to implement the concepts with real market data in the programming language R.

We will have face-2-face classroom sessions on Tuesdays from 11.40 am to 1.10 pm and from 2 pm to 3.30 pm and some virtual meetings in Zoomon Wednesday mornings from 8 to 9.30 am. For details please refer to the syllabus.

"Financial Market Decisions" is a 6 ECTS/4 contact hours mandatory module in the first semester of our International Business and Finance master programme. Students understand the essentials of mathematical decision theory as well as the psychological aspects of market participant behavior. They critically reflect the concepts for performance and risk measurement which are used to support decision taking in financial markets. They understand how to implement the concepts with real market data in the programming language R.

We will have face-2-face classroom sessions on Tuesdays from 11.40 am to 1.10 pm and from 2 pm to 3.30 pm and some virtual meetings in Zoom on Wednesday mornings from 8 to 9.30 am. For details please refer to the syllabus.

Your grade will be determined by a final exam on January 13th, 2026. Bonus points (in total up to 50%) towards the final exam may be earned via

• DataCamp certificates for online self-study (20%) - each 4- to 5-hour certificate contribute 2 percentage points, the three introductory courses contribute 1 percentage point,
• a research paper on a historical case of market failure (20%) and
• the presentation of your paper (10%) in December.

Datacamp certificates are due on January 12th, 2026. Due date for the seminar paper is January 27th, 2026, for the presentation slides January 13th, 2026 (prior to the presentation).