The chair offers courses at the Master and Ph.D level with an emphasis on:
- systemic risk
- market microstructure
- financial risk management
- monetary policy and financial markets
The main research areas at the chair held by Prof. Dr. Angelo Ranaldo are asset pricing, international finance, and market microstructure especially from the perspective of financial stability, market design, and (unconventional) monetary policy. Prof. Dr. Angelo Ranaldo has published many papers in all top-tier academic journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money & Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance und European Journal of Finance.