Information on design of academic research papers and seminar presentations
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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: 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
- Studying during the COVID-19 pandemic
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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: 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
- Education, Training and Health
- Volunteering and age – unused potentials?
- Educational expansion and monetary returns to education
- Higher education and social inequality
- Collective decisions
- 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
Address
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
M.A. Johannes Matthias Trunzer
Research Staff
Office hours
by appointment
Phone
