Welcome to AEF! by

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I want to write my master’s thesis in empirical finance, so this was a natural step for me to be introduced to the most significant topics in the field

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Preparation for masters thesis

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I want more practical experience instead of just theory

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Bachelor, For master thesis and future work

Interest in Finance

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Learn methods and get inspiration for my finance masters thesis.
Use my learnings from FDM and asset pricing with real data

2026-02-09 13:16:14 UTC

Because I looked for a way to see the theory in practice.

For my finance masters thesis

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Use of ML in portfolio optimization or semantic trading

2026-02-09 13:16:30 UTC

I already took FDM and Financial econometrics A, and saw this course as a good way to combinations these to course

Focus on the empirical and implementory part of financial topica

2026-02-09 13:16:31 UTC

As you also described

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Work/spare time “hobby” projects

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Volatility and how it's related to actual returns and decisions in finance

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R, tidyverse, assignments in overleaf

Seemed very practical & ‘applied’

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Work

A little experience from other courses, but mostly by coding in SAS or Stata

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Risk management

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Masters thesis and maybe work also

Trading strategies

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Student job and/or private investment strategies

Master thesis as well as work

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Master thesis and future workplace

Learn more about Machine learning

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Risk management

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Yes. I use Python at work and have used it in previous courses.

2026-02-09 13:17:28 UTC

Python from "Programming for Economists"

Yes, but mostly in Stata :(

2026-02-09 13:17:29 UTC

Because of the practical approach in the course

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I have experience with python, but im not sure if i should keep using python to improve, or if I should use this course to try to learn R

ML - Could also be useful outside of finance

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Already have taking Financial Decision Making, and wanted to gain some more hands on experience with data analysis and coding in finance, since I figure that’s the way I wanna go in my future career.

Python via VS code (self tought) from earlier projects

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Stata & SAS

Completely new to coding!

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At work

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Python experience from applied finance seminar and the elective Fixed Income Derivatives. Mainly with use of LLM's for code-writing.
Some experience with data analysis in SAS and R

2026-02-09 13:17:58 UTC

The course seemed exciting, and I want to see how backtestesting works on financial strategies

2026-02-09 13:18:11 UTC

Risk management could be really interesting

Master Thesis

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At work and in future projects

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Machine learning courses from CompSci institute

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Hope to apply it for a student job and in my Master thesis

2026-02-09 13:19:18 UTC

Some coding knowledge in Stata and Sas

2026-02-09 13:19:19 UTC

I wanted to learn more about connecting data and finance and I like coding in Python

2026-02-09 13:19:20 UTC

Volatility and risk management in general

2026-02-09 13:19:23 UTC

Did ‘introduction to programming’ and a seminar in ‘econometric models in financial application’, which has improved my knowledge in python. I use it at work aswell