Finance and Corporate Governance

Prof. Limbach and his team offer courses in finance, corporate governance and sustainability to undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students. Their goal is to equip students with practically relevant, theoretically grounded knowledge and skills to advance their future careers in academia and industry. The teaching portfolio includes the following courses and seminars (subject to change).

For organizational inquiries, please contact: Corporatefinance@uni-bielefeld.de.

Lectures for bachelor students

• Investition und Finanzierung I (Fundamentals of Finance) (31-M8), summer term
  • Course is concerned with the basics of financing and investment decisions
• Investition und Finanzierung II (Financial Management) (31-M14), summer term
  • Course is concerned with corporate financial management
• Financial Markets and Institutions (31-M14), winter term

  • Course is concerned with the role of financial markets and banks, financial fragility and banking regulation, risk, return and portfolio optimization, as well as equity IPOs and valuation

Elective module (Individuelle Ergänzung)

Corporate Sustainability, joint with Prof. Kai Borman and Dr. Maryna Gulenko, summer and winter term

• Courses are concerned with the basics of corporate sustainability, particularly with regard to accounting, finance, and human resource management.

Lectures for master students

• Corporate Finance (31-MM6), winter term
  • Course is concerned with valuation and investment decisions
• Corporate Governance (31-MM6), winter term
  • Course is concerned with the question of how investors get a return on their investment
• M&A and Venture Capital (31-MM6), summer term
  • In cooperation with Jörn Caumanns
  • Course provides detailed, applicable knowledge of the process of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as venture capital
• Portfolio and Risk Management (31-MM6), summer term
  • In cooperation with Dr. Bernd-Christian Balz
  • Course is concerned with the basics of asset management, market efficiency, active and passive investment strategies, and risk management

Seminars (Seminare in Finanzwirtschaft)

• Applied Equity Research (31-MM18), summer term
  • In cooperation with Dr. Florian Sonnenburg (Sonnenburg Investments)
• ESG and Sustainable Finance (31-MM18), winter term

Exercises (Praktische Übungen)

• Exercise for the course Corporate Governance (31-MM6), winter term

• Finance in Excel (31-M14), summer and winter term

Colloquia

Topics

• Behavioral / Social Finance, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, ESG / Sustainable Finance, Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions

General Information

• Please find general information on the colloquia here

Bachelor´s colloquium

• Requirements for registering for the Bachelor´s Colloquium (31-M25):
  • Students should have passed the course I&F I and should attend or have passed the course I&F II

Master´s colloquium

• Requirements for registering for the Master´s Colloquium (31-MM19):
  • Students should have passed the course Corporate Finance: Valuation and Investment Decision beforehand
  • It is recommended to attend to the course Corporate Governance beforehand

PhD courses

• Empirical Methods and Applications in Archival Data Research
  • Applied econometrics with a focus on endogeneity and identification
• Planning, Writing, and Presenting Academic Research
  • How to optimally plan, write, present, and discuss academic research
• Empirical Sustainability (ESG) Research
  • Provides an overview of the most important topics and the vast literature on sustainability in accounting and finance, partly also in economics and management, and discusses econometric aspects on empirical sustainability research