The teaching program of the Department of Finance follows a modern and relatively quantitative view of finance. The contents comprise corporate finance dealing with investment and financing decisions of corporations and the valuation of projects and businesses, as well as financial risk management, as performed by banks and insurance companies and increasingly by ‘common’ companies to ensure long term economic survival. The Department of Finance offers a financial management course in the first phase of the bachelor’s degree and a corporate finance course in the second phase. In the master’s degree specialized courses within both the finance major and the quantitative finance major are offered.
The teaching is embedded in the department’s research, but besides a solid theoretical foundation it is also practically oriented.
The primary goal of our teaching program is to develop students’ understanding of main financial instruments, i.e. they should gain a comprehensive knowledge of how to apply and evaluate the relevant techniques in the field of finance.
In addition, they will be prepared with the necessary degree of sophistication of quantitative skills (including real implementation). Our program also puts emphasis on the combination with other important fields like statistics, financial services or econometrics. Graduates will be well prepared with skills necessary for pursuing careers in both financial institutions and corporate areas of finance (e.g. treasury, controlling or risk management).
After a degree in mathematics with business administration as a second field of study at the University of Augsburg, Gregor Dorfleitner received his doctorate for his studies concerning index futures in the Department of Statistics of the University of Augsburg in 1998. In 2003 he habilitated in the Department of Business and Economics at the same university. From 2004 on, he served as full professor of finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business where he became head of the newly implemented Financial Engineering and Derivatives Group. Since October 2007 he has been head of the Department of Business Administration, especially Finance, and since April 2008 director of the Center of Finance at the University of Regensburg.
Professor Dorfleitner has published numerous papers in internationally renowned scientific papers.
CV downloadable at http://www-wiwi-cms.uni-regensburg.de/images/institute/bwl/dorfleitner/assets/CV_gd_engl.pdf
