Theses

The professors of the Institute of Economic Policy are pleased to welcome you to the Institute of Economic Policy for your Bachelor or Master thesis. Below you will find a selection of topics. If you are interested in one of them, please contact our contact person at an early stage (at least two weeks before the planned registration date).

 


Bachelor theses

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

Information about bachelor theses (German)
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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"
  • Topics
    • Evaluation of reforms and changes in the higher education system
    • Higher education and social inequality
    • Housing market and policy
    • Social market economy (see below: Master thesis scholarship)

    An autonomous development of research questions in the supervised topics is preferable.

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"
  • 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
    • Gender economics: family planning and teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence, female empowerment
    • Economics of education: academic aspirations, role models in education, students’ mental health

    (Exp) experiments

Notes on theses

WiPol_Gestaltung_Abschlussarbeiten.pdf
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Coordinator and contact person for all theses

M.A. Johannes Matthias Göhausen
Research Staff
Address
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
216
Office hours
by appointment
M.A. Johannes Matthias Göhausen
Research Staff
Address
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
216
Office hours
by appointment