Teaching

I have taught seven courses at the University of Munich (LMU), the University of Wollongong, and the University of Molise. Please sign up for courses on the University website. If you have any questions about course materials, feel free to send them to me by email, and I will respond as soon as possible.

Finance and Decision Theory

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2025, 2026, 2027

The course deals with core concepts of decisions under uncertainty in Financial Economics. Taking the environment as given, we discuss how preferences determine decisions within expected utility theory. Given individual preferences, we also discuss how the environment, as well as changes in the environment, influence decisions.

Topics in Financial Technology & Innovation

Semester: Summer & Winter

Offered: 2025, 2026, 2027

The seminar is offered regularly in the winter and summer terms and aims to provide an overview of the most recent developments within the broad context of financial innovation and technology. The focus of the seminar varies but generally covers the topics of Market Microstructure, Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Cryptocurrency & Decentralized Markets, as well as regulatory developments.

Students learn to elaborate and present scientific results in a structured manner using an academic register. Results are presented and discussed in a final meeting.

Digital Finance

Semester: Summer

Offered: 2025, 2026, 2027

Substantial parts of the financial value chain are continuously being disrupted by technology-based innovators. The course offers a comprehensive exploration of modern securities markets, trading mechanisms, and market microstructure. It addresses both theoretical and practical aspects of financial markets and provides insights into market dynamics. Special focus is placed on algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading, decentralised markets, and the role of technological innovation.

Financial Statement Analysis

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024

The aim of the course is to provide students with the tools through which to understand the general principles of financial statement analysis and the reclassification of the main documents that make up the financial statement of companies, as well as analyze the various income, equity, and financial ratios and compose the financial statement to complete the balance sheet and income statement.

ECON331: Financial Economics Tutorials

Semester: Autumn

Offered: 2023

This subject deals with investment in production capacity, portfolio analysis, debt accumulation, insolvency and liquidation. Optimal control methods are used for analysing the efficient trajectories of capital investment and borrowing. Portfolio choice and producers' choices of activity sets are analysed within a mean-variance expected utility maximisation framework incorporating the concepts of risk aversion, costs of risk-bearing and diversification.

Forensic Accounting Seminar Series

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2023

This course aims to provide students with the tools of forensic accounting, which is the branch of business economics that deals with identifying, collecting and processing information for use in arbitration, civil litigation and criminal cases. According to international standards, forensic accounting includes both accounting assessment and investigation techniques (investigative accounting and fraud auditing) and litigation support activities (litigation support).

FIN 223: Investment Analysis Tutorials

Semester: Autumn

Offered: 2022

This subject deals with investment analysis and portfolio management. The subject is both descriptive, dealing with a range of securities and the market they operate in, and theoretical, considering theories of the market and the equilibrium prices of securities. Topics covered include portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model, fixed-income securities, socially responsible investing and real estate.