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BACHELOR THESES
We are looking for students with interest in the following topics:
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Topic: Growth and innovation
- Links between growth and innovation (theoretical and/or empirical)
- Innovation activity and promotion
- Structural change and productivity growth
- Green economy
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Topic: Digitalisation and world of work
- Historical classification
- Automation potential
- Polarisation of the labour market
- Employment effects
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Topic: Adult education
- Determinants
- Mechanisms
- Monetary income
- Non-monetary income
- Provision by universities
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Topic: Research and transfer
- External and internal university governance
- Incentive structures in science
- Regional effects of universities
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Topic: Higher education
- Returns to education: Measurement, empirical evidence and heterogeneity
- Educational decisions during crises
- Educational expansion: Description and consequences for the higher education system
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Topic: Migration
- Citizenship and the assimilation of migrants
- Language skills
- Transferability of human capital
- Acculturation in the broader sense (segregation, integration, assimilation)
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Topic: Development economics
- Indebtedness of households and life satisfaction in Thailand
- Poverty dynamics and sustainable development in Southeast Asia - What role do parental demands and expectations play for their children?
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Topic: Gender economics
- Gender pay gap (development, international comparison)
- Promotion of women (support programs in the labor market, in universities, schools)
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Topic: Organizational design and innovation
- Incentives and innovation
- Working from home and innovation
- Organizational structure and innovation
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Topic: Experimental methods
- Experiments in economic research
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Topic: Behavioural economics
- Prosocial behaviour
- Bystander behaviour
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Topic: Economics of crime
- The economics of crime
- The costs of crime prevention
- Radicalization
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Topic: Decision theory
- Decision rules for group decisions
- Collective rationality and collective knowledge
- Vagueness and supervaluation
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Topic: Covid-19 pandemic
- Socio-political impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
- Effects of the Corona Crisis on private indebtedness
MASTER THESES
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"
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Topics
- The economics of crime
- Cost-benefit-analysis and crime prvention
- Prosocial behavior
- Bystander behavior
- Cryptocurrencies
- Education, Training and Health
- Volunteering and age – unused potentials?
- Educational expansion and monetary returns to education
- Higher education and social inequality
- Collective decision rules
- Collective rationality and knowledge
- Green Microfinance
- Social market economy (see below: Master thesis scholarship)
An autonomous development of research questions in the supervised topics is preferable.
In the field of "Innovation Economics" the following topics can be chosen from:
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Topics
- Experimental study on the effects of incentives (Exp)
- Experimental studies in innovation economics (Exp)
- Working from home and innovation
- Tax incentives and innovation
- Discrimination and innovation
(Exp) experiments
NOTES ON THESES
COORDINATOR AND CONTACT PERSON FOR ALL THESES
M.A. Johannes Matthias Trunzer
Research Staff
Office hours
by appointment
Phone
M.A. Johannes Matthias Trunzer
Research Staff
Office hours
by appointment
Phone
