Core Electives MiQE/F Students choose 12 - 22 ECTS credits from core electives. The MiQE/F core elective pillar consists of three sub-pillars. 1: Core Courses Quantitative Finance/Econometrics II: Core Courses Economics III: Other Core Electives 8-18 ECTS Credits 4-14 ECTS Credits 0-10 ECTS Credits at least 2 courses have to be chosen from this field; additional courses will be credited towards the Other Core Electives and Electives. at least 1 course has to be chosen from this field; additional courses will be credited towards Other Core Eletives and Electives. You can either take another field course or choose from a wieder list of courses. Please refer to the offical course directories of the University. I: Core Courses Quantitative Finance/Econometrics (8 ECTS) Course ECTS Lecturer Semester 7,320 Quantitative Risk Management 4 Prof. Ph.D. Enrico De Giorgi Autumn 8,272 Big Data Analytics 4 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Matter Spring 8,310 Asset Pricing 4 Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler Spring 8,312 Microeconometrics 4 Prof. Dr. Michael Lechner Spring 8,314 Time Series Econometrics 4 Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler Spring 8,318 Financial Volatility 4 Prof. Ph.D. Francesco Audrino Spring II: Core Courses Economics (4 ECTS) Course ECTS Lecturer Semester 7,260 Industrial Organization and Digitalization 4 Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler Ph.D. Nicolas Eschenbaum Autumn 8,262 Labor Economics: Theory and Applications 4 Prof. Dr. Beatrix Eugster Spring 8,260 Public Economics - The Economics of Taxation 4 Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg. Spring 8,274 Corporate Finance, Banking and Venture Capital 4 Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg Ph.D. Michael Kogler Spring III: Other Core Electives Course ECTS Lecturer Language Semester 7,162 Financial Programming with Matlab (MBF*) 4 Dr. Michael Hermann Schürle E Autumn 7,250 Advanced Macroeconomics I: Growth and Innovation (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Reto Föllmi E Autumn 7,252 Advanced Mircoeconomics I: Consumer, Firms and Markets (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg. E Autumn 7,264 Data Handling: Databases (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Michael Grossniklaus E Autumn 7,322 Quantitative Asset Management 4 Prof. Dr. Axel Kind Dr. Ralf Seiz E Autumn 7,325 Smart Data Handling 4 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle E Autumn 9,164 Fixed Income Instruments (MBF*) 2 Dr. Stephan Suess E Autumn 9,168 Theory of Risk and Insurance (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Hato Schmeiser E Autumn 9,172 Real Estate Modelling (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Kathleen Kürschner Rauck Prof. Dr. Roland Füss E Autumn 9,264 Recent long-run Macroeconomic Trends (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Ph.D. Timo Boppart E Autumn 9,266 The Economics of Strategy (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Dennis Gärtner E Autumn 9,268 Political Economics (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Roland Hodler E Autumn 9,272 Economics of Central Banking (MEcon*) 4 Ph.D. Nicolas Cuche-Curti E Autumn 9,276 Debt and Fiscal Policy (MEcon*) 4 Ph.D. Jochen Mankart E Autumn 9,322 Advanced Econometric Methods 4 Prof. Ph.D. Petyo Bonev E Autumn 9,334 Theoretical Behavioural Finance 4 Prof. Ph.D. Enrico De Giorgi E Autumn 8,152 Derivatives (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler E Spring 8,154 Financial Econometrics (MBF*) 4 Prof. Ph.D. Paul Söderlind E Spring 8,159 Risk Management and Insurance (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Hato Schmeiser E Spring 8,166 Market Microstructure (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Angelo Ranaldo E Spring 8,172 Real Estate Finance (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Kathleen Kürschner Rauck E Spring 8,174 Financial Modeling Workshop: Asset Allocation (MBF*) 4 Dr. Stephan Kessler E Spring 8,178 Asset Liability Management for Insurance Companies (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Hato Schmeiser E Spring 8,194 Derivatives Modeling in Excel VBA (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann E Spring 8,250 Advanced Microeconomics III: Game Theory (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler E Spring 8,252 Advanced Macroeconomics III: Money and Prices (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Martin Wolf E Spring 8,258 When Distribution Matters: Inequality, Mobility, Poverty, and Welfare 4 Prof. Ph.D. Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio E Spring 8,264 International Trade (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Reto Föllmi Ph.D. Stefan Legge E Spring 8,266 Economics in Practice (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Reto Föllmi Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler Prof. Ph.D. Michael Knaus Prof. Dr. Michael Lechner Prof. Dr. Ulrich Matter Prof. Dr. Angelo Ranaldo E Spring 8,268 Quantitative Applications in Economics and Finance 4 Prof. Ph.D. Arnau Valladares-Esteban E Spring 8,270 International Macroeconomics (Mecon*) 4 Prof. Ph.D. Marc-Andreas Mündler M.A. David Torun E Spring 8,273 Multivariate Statistical Analysis with Python 4 Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler E Spring 8,275 Functional Programming with Applications 4 Prof. Dr. Philipp Zahn E Spring 8,277 Macroeconomics, Development and Agriculture (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Ph.D. Timo Boppart Prof. Ph.D. Charles Gottlieb E Spring 8,278 Environmental Economics (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg Prof. Ph.D. Petyo Bonev E Spring 8,280 Beyond Homo Oeconomicus: Decision Making and Well-being in Economics (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Martin Kolmar E Spring 8,282 Asset Liability Management für Schweizer Pensionskassen (MEcon*) 4 Dr. Roger Baumann Dr. David Schiess G Spring 8,286 Selected Topics in Swiss Public Finance (MEcon*) 4 Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaltegger E Spring 8,320 Methods for Data-Driven Optimal Policy 3 Prof. Dr. Jana Mareckova E Spring 8,322 Real Estate Economics (MBF*) 4 Prof. Dr. Kathleen Kürschner Rauck E Spring 8,330 Machine Learning (MiQE/F) 4 Prof. Ph.D. David Preinerstorfer E Spring 8,355 Political Economoyc of Development in African States (MIA*) 4 Visiting Professor of Political Science Opalo Kennedy E Spring 8,338 Introduction to Web Mining for Social Scientists (every two years: Spring21, Spring23,...) 4 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Matter E Spring 8,391 Empirical Policy Evaluation (MIA*) 4 Prof. Ph.D. Frank Pisch E Spring 8,398 Game Theory and Applications (MIA*) 4 Assistant Professor of Political Science Oliver Westerwinter E Spring