Final theses

Dear Bachelor Students,

we are pleased that you are interested in writing your bachelor thesis at our institute. You can find informations about a BA thesis in Stud.IP under: Introduction to Scientific Work at IUW Bachelor

You should note that the bachelor thesis can be either a pure literature analysis (e.g. in the form of a meta-analysis) or descriptive data analysis (using concrete data from our projects, e.g. www.tvsep.de).

In the case of a literature analysis, we have very diverse topics from the fields of environment, development, trade and sustainability. You can also propose your own topics. You can get a small insight into our topics in our archive of completed bachelor theses.

If you decide to do a descriptive thesis with data from our projects, you will be supported in this. With appropriate literature (e.g. "Data Analysis with Stata" / "Microeconometrics Using Stata", both available in the TIB) you can also familiarize yourself with the statistical program Stata or R in an application-oriented way. This can be useful especially with regard to a master thesis.

You can write your thesis in English or German. The length of the papers depends heavily on the topic, but averages 25-30 pages.

The official registration of all theses is handled by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote or  Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen.

Dear Master students,

we are pleased that you are interested in writing your master thesis at our institute. You can find informations about a MA thesis in Stud.IP under: Introduction to scientific writing at IUW Master

You should note that the thesis should have an empirical part in addition to a literature part, for which you will need either qualitative or quantitative data. We can provide you with quantitative data within the framework of our projects - or you can collect them yourself.

In case of working with data from our projects, we will offer you some concrete topics. But you can also think about them yourself, e.g. by looking at the questionnaire on the TVSEP homepage (www.tvsep.de). We also have project data from other countries, such as Zambia or Tanzania. With appropriate literature (e.g. "Data Analysis with Stata" / "Microeconometrics Using Stata", both available at TIB) and some support from us, you can familiarize yourself with the statistical program Stata or R in an application-oriented way. There are also topics related to optimization models and agent-based models (GAMS and Netlogo software). These approaches often use secondary data, which one creates oneself on the basis of the literature. An introduction is offered in the course "Micro- and Macroeconomic Simulation Modeling" in the winter semester.

If you prefer to collect your own quantitative or qualitative data, you are more flexible in your choice of topic. Mostly consumption surveys are conducted and you design your own questionnaire accordingly (e.g. with LimeSurvey). You can conduct the analysis with the help of various statistical programs (e.g. R, Stata, SPSS).

By the way, in the summer semester we offer an econometrics course (Econometrics) in the computer lab, in which you can participate to refresh your econometrics knowledge on concrete empirical examples.

You can get a small insight into our topics by looking at our IUW homepage under Research and Teaching (Theses) and the respective archives.

You can write your thesis in English or German, with English in some cases is preferred, especially since the underlying literature is also often in English.

Master theses can be registered at any time. The official registration of all theses is handled by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote or  Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen.

If you do not find any explicitly advertised theses here, please contact us directly.