This seminar is jointly offered by the departments of Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen (Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods) and Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig (Econometrics, Statistics and Empirical Economics).

Due to the Corona pandemic, there will be no preliminary meeting in person. Instead, please join the ILIAS folder, where you will have to upload a current transcript of records and fill out a survey regarding your topic preferences by October 17, 11:55pm. Your supervisor will be assigned to you based on your indicated preferences, and you will be contacted by her/him once the decision has been made.

Time and place for the preliminary meeting will be announced on this page. Participants are asked to have a rough idea regarding a possible topic of their bachelor thesis when attending the preliminary meeting. Here and here are some of the topics chosen in previous semesters.

• The aim of the bachelor thesis is to show the ability of a student to discuss a problem or a subject in statistics, econometrics, or a research field of the chairs in a scientific way.
• The final grade is based on the written thesis (70 percent) and the final presentation (30 percent).
• Students should choose their topic on their own. The topic should be discussed  with the supervisor. For an empirical thesis, students need to find, process and handle the datasets themselves.
• Students have to submit a printed copy and an electronic version (pdf-format).
• The bachelor thesis and the presentation should be in English (German thesis and presentation are acceptable).
• Students are required to attend all intermediate and final presentations (attendance is mandatory).

• Formal guidelines for the written thesis are provided in the Ilias folder.
• Orthography, grammar and style of the thesis will be taken into account for grading.
• We suggest to use Latex to prepare the thesis and the presentation. The zip-file contains a document "vorlage.tex" which illustrates the use of Latex and provides installation information. "vorlage.pdf" is the result when compiling the tex-file.
• The presentation of the final thesis has to be in Powerpoint, Latex or similar. There is no need for handouts.