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70359-01 - Kolloquium: Money, Finance and Cryptocurrencies: How to Use DeFi Protocols (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2025 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Herbstsemester |
| Dozierende | Aleksander Berentsen (aleksander.berentsen@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | In monetary economics and finance, the key issues are the role of liquidity, the frictions that make money essential, and the role of credit and financial intermediation for the economy. In this colloquium, we use this knowledge to study Decentralized Finance (DeFi). The term DeFi refers to a rapidly expanding novel financial infrastructure built on top of blockchains such as the Ethereum blockchain. DeFi does not rely on intermediaries and centralized institutions. Instead, it is based on permissionless protocols and decentralized applications (DApps). The promise of this novel technology is to create a financial infrastructure that is more open, interoperable, and transparent in comparison to the existing financial infrastructure. The basic idea of the colloquium is to identify the building blocks of a financial system. Which services does a financial system need to be complete (to satisfy all potential financial needs of users)? We will explore this question by studying DeFi where these financial primitives are being developed as we speak. The twist of the colloquium is that we want to learn to be 'our own banker.' We will learn to use DeFi protocols without intermediaries -- even without a user interface. For this purpose, we will learn how to use these protocols by directly interacting with smart contracts using Python. |
| Bemerkungen | Overall there will be a total of 6 meetings - approximately every second week (in-class or online). The exact dates will be announced at the beginning of the semester. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | 1. The number of participants is limited to 20. 2. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Prof. Aleksander Berentsen (aleksander.berentsen@unibas.ch) by September 15, 2025, 08 pm. Please indicate: your name, study program, and matriculation number Please make sure that you are registered for the fall semester and have paid the semester fees before you register for this course. Eucor-Students and mobility students of other Swiss Universities or the FHNW first have to register at the University of Basel BEFORE the enrollment deadline and receive their login data by post (email address of the University of Basel). Processing time up to a week! Detailed information can be found here: https://www.unibas.ch/de/Studium/Mobilitaet.html After successful registration, you have access to the enrollment link. 3. You will be notified on 16.09.2025 by email if you have NOT been admitted to the course. 4. A deregistration is possible until 22.09.25 at the latest by email to belegungstorno-wwz@unibas.ch 5. Your registration will be entered in your Online Services only after the official deadline of the course registration period, i.e. after October 13, 2025. 6. The following applies to everyone: enrollment = registration for the exam/assignment! In case of non-participation after registration it will be noted as "nicht erschienen" in the transcript. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08.15-10.00 | - Online Präsenz - |
| Bemerkungen | Overall there will be a total of 6 meetings - approximately every second week. The exact dates will be announced at the beginning of the semester. |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Mittwoch 17.09.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S16 HG.39 |
| Mittwoch 24.09.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 01.10.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 08.10.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 15.10.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 22.10.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 29.10.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 05.11.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 12.11.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 19.11.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 26.11.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 03.12.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Mittwoch 10.12.2025 | 08.15-10.00 Uhr | via Zoom, -- |
| Module |
Modul: Field Electives in Finance and Money (Masterstudium: Finance and Money) Modul: Finance Field: Monetary Economics and Macrofinance (Masterstudium: Finance and Money) Modul: Specific Electives in Finance, Controlling, Banking (Masterstudium: Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Spezialisierungsmodul: Areas of Specialization in International and/or Monetary Economics (Masterstudium: International and Monetary Economics) |
| Prüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Your tasks will be to develop six Jupyter notebooks, where each notebook is dedicated to a particular financial primitive such as trading or borrowing and lending. The grading will be based on these notebooks and your presentations of these notebooks. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | An- und Abmelden: Dozierende |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,1 |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ, studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ |