Jan 16, 2025
Award ceremonies on January 16: Prof. Dr. Endriss Prize 2024 and Deutsche Bundesbank Prize for Outstanding Theses 2024
As part of the Faculty's New Year's Reception on January 16. 2025 in the Festsaal, we awarded the 2024 winners of the Prof. Dr. Endriss Prize and the Deutsche Bundesbank Prize for Outstanding Theses in Business and Economics.
The purpose of the Prof. Dr. Endriss Prize is to support students of the Faculty of Business and Economics at TUD Dresden University of Technology in their studies at a foreign university. The criteria for selection are academic achievements, extramural commitment and the demonstration of the necessity of the stay abroad. The award winners are selected by a committee consisting of representatives of the dean's college, the board of nexus e.V. and a student. The 2024 award winners are Julian Jacob and Florian Stein, who are both studying Industrial Engineering and Management. Julian Jacob studied at the University of Alberta, Canada, for one semester in the winter semester 2024. Florian Stein studied for one semester at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
The Deutsche Bundesbank Prize for Outstanding Theses in Business and Economics is awarded to outstanding master's and diploma theses and dissertations written at the Faculty of Business and Economics that are closely related to the statutory tasks of the Deutsche Bundesbank, in particular monetary policy, the stability of the financial and monetary system, banking supervision, cash and non-cash payment transactions. The award winners are selected by a committee of the faculty and the Deutsche Bundesbank.
The 2024 winners are Assistant Professor Jantke de Boer, former research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Economics, in particular International Monetary Economics, and Christoph Sperling, graduate of the Industrial Engineering and Management degree program.
Professor Michael Schefczyk, Assistant Professor Jantke de Boer and Guido Müller, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Saxony and Thuringia.
In her cumulative dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Exchange Rates", supervised by Professor Stefan Eichler, Jantke de Boer devotes three papers to the investigation of new determinants for the cross-section of exchange rate yields: 1) US export dependence and protectionist US policy; 2) centrality of country-specific foreign portfolios; 3) net foreign debt and transmission of financial restrictions of global dealer banks on the foreign exchange market.
Prof. Dr Michael Schefczyk, Christoph Sperling and Guido Müller, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Saxony and Thuringia.
Christoph Sperling's thesis, supervised by Professor Dominik Möst and Professor Holger Perlwitz, combines the areas of energy and corporate finance and sheds light on the capital-intensive challenges that companies face in the energy transition. One way for companies to finance these challenges is through environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds, which can benefit from yield discounts compared to their conventional counterparts - a phenomenon known as "greenium". In his thesis, Christoph Sperling conducted an econometric causal analysis to examine five observable characteristics of ESG bonds and their conventional twins for statistical differences.
We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Endriss and the Deutsche Bundesbank for their support and congratulate all the award winners!