Completed theses

Here you will find a list of submitted theses at the Institute for Economic Policy.

  • The Quality-Quantity Tradeoff in Children: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence
  • The ban on risk-group-specific discrimination in insurance: an economic analysis
  • Promotion of innovation: an economic evaluation using the example of Lower Saxony
  • Independence and integration success: Turkish start-ups in Germany
  • Economic costs of the cult of the dead
  • Old-age insurance and the financial market crisis
  • Old-age insurance and international mobility
  • Values, social norms and welfare state - An application to the East Asian culture
  • Inequality, social milieus and redistribution
  • Free movement of capital in the relationship between EU member states and third countries
  • Immigration and the welfare state
  • Social security in China
  • Equal opportunities and school system - theoretical foundations, empirical findings and educational policy implications
  • Distribution effects of minimum wages
  • Economic costs of obesity
  • The funeral market: regulation, efficiency and political economy
  • Company employment stabilization in recession - a case study
  • Values, social norms and welfare state - an application to the Islamic culture
  • Satisfaction in temporary agency work
  • The development of growth theory: overview, approaches and political implications
  • The contribution of microcredit to social security in developing countries
  • Brazil's "Bolsa Familia" - an example of poverty reduction?
  • Ensuring the care needs of future generations
  • Globalization and income inequality between countries: the influence of technology diffusion
  • Microinsurance and its contribution to risk management in
  • Tax evasion and welfare state abuse: parallels and differences
  • Fairness concepts and preferences for redistribution
  • Diversity, social identities and welfare state
  • Satisfaction and tasks
  • Old-age insurance and public debt
  • Social security for the rural population in developing countries
  • Behavioural economics of welfare theory
  • The "new lower class": emergence, behaviour and political-economic consequences
  • Wealth in OECD countries: a distribution analysis
  • Target 2 balances - A critical analysis of the current discussion
  • Social norms and redistribution
  • The Easterlin paradox: a current inventory
  • Social identities and redistribution
  • Regional disparities in China and India: a politico-economic analysis
  • Welfare state abuse: A current inventory
  • Behavioural economic aspects of welfare theory
  • The EU FDI in Russia: Economic Partnership or a Tool for the Country's Development?