Orientation Guide

This guideline is supposed to assist you in preparing your bachelor or master thesis. With the objective of getting to know your academic interests and qualities, we are looking forward to receive the following information from you:

• Short letter of motivation
• Main interest of study
• Up-to-date academic record
• Desired starting date

• Written papers in the past, if available (term papers/bachelor thesis)
• In case of an empirical project: State your prior experiences with empirical work and/or with statistical software and programming

Please send this information to:

Labor Economics: Dr. Andreas Kuhn
Macroeconomics: Andreas Kohler

Topics in Labor Economics

Potential topics include: evaluation of labor market policies, family policies, the unemployment insurance system, the impact of immigration on the labor market, education and labor market outcomes.

Topics in Macroeconomics

Potential topics include: the role of income distribution in macro- and trade models, the theoretical and empirical analysis of the inequality-poverty relation, the determinants of process- and product innovations, or the role of per-capita incomes for the patterns of international trade. Some theses will be genuine theoretical work, whereas others will give an overview of the relevant literature or investigate the questions empirically.