List of Thesis Topics (BA & MA)
At the end of their degree programme, economics students can write their final thesis (Bachelor's, Master's) at the Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research. If you are interested in writing a thesis in the following subject areas, please contact the respective supervisor directly. Your own topic suggestions are welcome, but should fit in with the research specialisations of our staff.
General Economic Policy
- Theses in the field of innovation economics (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann or Leonie Reher )
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (Supervision: Leonie Reher )
Experimental Economics and Behavioural Economics
- Automated and Human Decision-Making (Supervision: Alexander Erlei)
- AI and Human Decision-Making (Supervision: Alexander Erlei)
- Big Data and Human Decision-Making (Supervision: Alexander Erlei)
- Behavioral Heuristics and Biases (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann or Alexander Erlei)
- Moral Behaviour (Supervision: Alexander Erlei )
- Fairness Preferences (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann or Alexander Erlei)
- Explaining the description–experience gap in risky choice (Supervision: Alexander Erlei)
- Innovation ambidexterity: Fostering exploration and exploitation (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann or Alexander Erlei)
- Innovation Economics (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann )
- Organisational Economics (Supervision: Dr. Elaine Horstmann )
Art and Cultural Economics
- Economic impact of cultural events (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- Visitor and non-visitor surveys in selected cultural institutions (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- Cultural economic approaches in application (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- Markets and market interventions in art goods (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- Economic analysis of cultural supply/demand (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- Economic effects of the UNESCO World Heritage title (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
- General supervision of this subject area (Supervision: Dario Gödecke)
Environmental Economics
- Behavioral Environmental Economics (Supervision: Myrjam Klemt)
- Application of Quantitative Methods in the field of Energy Economics (Supervision: Anna Lena Lesch)
- Energy and Sustainability Economics (e.g. Economic Policy Instruments in Energy Economics, Energy Eransition in the building sector, Sustainability Transitions) (Supervision: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer)
- Regulatory Experiments for Sustainable Development (Supervision: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer)
Regional Economics
- Innovations in SMEs (Supervision: Leonie Reher )
- Innovations in structurally weak regions (Supervision: Leonie Reher )
- Knowledge Transfer and Regional Innovation Ecosystems (Supervision: Louisa Jantos , vorrangig empirische Arbeiten)
- Economic Development of rural areas, in particular Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Petrik Runst, in Cooperation with the ifh Göttingen and the Thünen Institut, More Information)