Theses – Institute of Economic Policy – Leibniz University Hannover

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Bachelor theses

We are looking for students with interest in the following topics:

Topic: Gender economics
- Gender pay gap
- Women in leadership (e.g., impact of gender quotas)
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Topic: Economics of education
- Impact of tuition fees
- School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Social inequalities in access to higher education
Topic: Research and transfer
- Incentive structures in science
- Science and the public
- External and internal university governance
Topic: Economic effects of the German reunification
- Social mobility
- Transition of the economy
Topic: Labor market and institutions
- Bürgergeld
- Success of sanctions
- Economic relevance of institutions and various forms of social capital
Topic: Climate protection and sustainability
- Economic effects of climate protection or sustainability policy
Topic: Social Market Economy
- Fundamentals of the social market economy
- Further developments: Global governance
- Pension system and social insurance (social policy)
- European integration
- Price stability
Topic: Housing market
- Impact of remote working on the housing market
- Housing costs and college education decisions
- Housing market and labor mobility
- Homelessness: Extent, causes and solutions
Topic: Organizational design and innovation
- Incentives and innovation
- Working from home and innovation
- Organizational structure and innovation
Topic: Experiments
- Experiments in economic research

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If you want to write your master thesis in the field of "Applied Economic Policy", we expect you to have:

A clear economic policy focus of the thesis
A quantitative empirical or theoretical analytical approach
A research-oriented question
"Economic Policy and Theory" or "Empirical Economics and Econometrics" as major or minor
Successful completion of the courses "Econometric Methods" and "Foundations of Economic Policy"

If you want to write your master thesis in the field of "Innovation Economics", we expect you to have:

A focus of the thesis on behavioral or innovation economics
A quantitative empirical approach of analysis
A research-oriented research question
Successful completion of one of the following courses "Econometric Methods" or "Incentives to Innovate"