Consultation hours
During the winter semester 2025/26, consultation hours will take place on Wednesdays, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., in the office (VG 3.05). Please register by e-mail with Ms. Schubert (sekretariat.finanzierung@ur.de).
The “Exercise for the bachelor's thesis” will take place in the winter semester 2025/26 on Wednesdays, 10:00 to 10:45 a.m., in the office (VG 3.05). Please register by e-mail with Ms. Schubert (sekretariat.finanzierung@ur.de).
The “Exercise for the Master's thesis” will take place in the winter semester 2025/26 on Wednesdays, 10:45 to 11:30 a.m., in the office (VG 3.05). Please register by e-mail with Ms. Schubert (sekretariat.finanzierung@ur.de).
About the person
After studying mathematics with a minor in business administration at the University of Augsburg, Gregor Dorfleitner completed his doctorate in 1998 with a dissertation on index futures under the supervision of Professor Dr. Günter Bamberg at the Chair of Statistics at the University of Augsburg. In 2003, he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Economics at the same university. In April 2004, he was appointed Professor of Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Beginning in July 2005, he headed the newly established department of Financial Engineering and Derivatives. Since October 2007, he has held the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Finance and has served as Director of the Centre of Finance at the University of Regensburg since April 2008. He is the author of numerous internationally published academic papers.
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Main research areas
- Sustainable Finance
- FinTech and digital finance
- Risk models for companies, risk measures
- Company valuation
- Microfinance
Training objectives
Students are expected to become familiar with, evaluate, and apply a broad range of financial instruments. This goes is closely linked to the development of quantitative skills, with a particular emphasis on practical implementation using computer-based tools.
Interdisciplinary connections with subjects such as statistics, financial services, and econometrics are explicitly encouraged. Graduates will acquire the analytical and technical competencies needed to succeed both in financial institutions and in corporate finance functions such as treasury, controlling, and risk management.
Publications
- Dorfleitner, Gregor (2002) Stetige versus diskrete Renditen: Überlegungen zur richtigen Verwendung beider Begriffe in Theorie und Praxis.
Kredit und Kapital: 35 (2), P. 216-241.
https://dx.doi.org/10.3790/ccm.35.2.216 - Dorfleitner, Gregor and Bamberg, Günter (2002) The Influence of Taxes on the DAX Future Market: Some Recent Developments.
Schmalenbach business review: Special Issue: 1, P. 191-203. ISBN 3-7754-0187-3. - Dorfleitner, Gregor and Bamberg, Günter (2000) Concentration on the Nearby Contract in Financial Futures Markets: A Stochastic Model to Explain the Phenomenon.
Journal of Economics and Finance: 24 (3), P. 246-259. - Dorfleitner, Gregor (1999) Eine Anmerkung zur exakten Nachbildung von Aktienindizes mittels einer Multiplikator-Rundungsmethode.
OR Spectrum: 21 (4), P. 493-502.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002910050100 - Dorfleitner, Gregor and Bamberg, Günter (1999) Ein Modell zur Analyse des Limitorder-Tradings in Index-Futures-Märkten.
OR Spectrum: 21 (1-2), P. 239-257.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002910050088 - Dorfleitner, Gregor, Bamberg, Günter and Lasch, Rainer (1999) Does the Planning Horizon Affect the Portfolio Structure?.
, P. 100-114. ISBN 3-540-65855-6. - Dorfleitner, Gregor and Klein, Thomas (1999) Rounding with Multiplier Methods: An Efficient Algorithm and Applications in Statistics.
Statistical Papers (formerly: Statistische Hefte): 40, P. 143-157. - Dorfleitner, Gregor (1999) Zum Glattstellen von Index-Futures: Empirie und stochastische Modelle unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des DAX-Futures.
: 97, ISBN 3-89012-669-3. - Dorfleitner, Gregor (1998) Conditional MSE-based Discrimination of the Sample Mean and the Post-Stratification Estimator in Population Sampling.
Statistical Papers (formerly: Statistische Hefte): 39, P. 313-319. - Bamberg, Günter and Dorfleitner, Gregor (1998) Haltedauern von DAX-Futures-Positionen und die Konzentration auf den Nearby-Kontrakt.
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft: Erg.heft (2), P. 55-74.
Prof. Dr. Gregor Dorfleitner
Chair holder
- E-mail address: gregor.dorfleitner(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49 941 943 2683 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Fax: +49 941 943 812683
- Location: Vielberth Building, VG 3.05
- Important information: Consultation hours: Please register in advance by emailing Ms. Schubert (sekretariat.finanzierung@ur.de).
- Department of Finance