Assignment of a Bachelor Thesis

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dominik Papies
General topic: In this seminar selected aspects of marketing will be deepened by writing a bachelor thesis. In addition, analytical and argumentative skills are trained. Please see the marketing-website for further information.

Seminar type: blocked
Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pull

General topic: The seminar serves the preparation, creation and presentation of a Bachelor thesis. The topics offered can change. Students select their own problem-related research question within given topic blocks and work on it independently. A company excursion - usually offered - enables the students to reflect questions on the topic in practice. At the final presentation, the students present their results to the entire group of participants and then create - together with other participants - a poster in which references between the results of their own work and the results of other participants are worked out. More information on the research unit's website https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/48469

Seminar type: blocked

Number of participants: 24

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Martin Ruf

General topic: The content of the seminar and the registration deadlines as well as the modalities will be announced on the homepage of the chair before the end of the lecture period of the previous semester. Here, you'll find more information on the topics etc. Themen des SoSe 2023 finden Sie hier. Topics for the upcoming semester can be found here on ILIAS.

Seminar type: blocked

Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Monika Gehde-Trapp

General topic: The influence of institutional actors on capital market efficiency and stability: Modern capital markets are highly influenced by institutional actors - both as investors and as trading intermediaries. The bachelor seminar focuses on the influence of these institutional actors on the important dimension of capital market efficiency. For example, does a high share of institutional actors lead to a more efficient allocation of capital? To lower price volatility? To less risk overall? You will deal with such and similar questions in the bachelor seminar in the following exemplary topics:

• Big League: The growing ETF market and its impact on companies newly listed in stock indices.
• Information asymmetries among institutional investors
• Acting by not acting: How passive investors influence corporate decisions

Seminar type: blocked form

Limited Attendance: 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Markus Hitz

Generalthema: Der Inhalt des Seminars und weiterführende Informationen werden auf der Homepage des Lehrstuhls vor Ende der Vorlesungszeit des vorhergehenden Semesters bekannt gegeben. Hinweise zum Ablauf und den Themen im WiSe 2023/24 finden Sie hier.

Seminartyp: geblockt

Zahl der Teilnehmenden: 16 Teilnehmende

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Markus Pudelko

Generalthema: Students writing their Bachelor thesis with the Department of International Business will have to attend this seminar in order to present the key outcomes of their thesis. In order to write the Bachelor thesis and participate in the Bachelor Thesis Seminar, students will have to pass beforehand the sessions on “Introduction into Research Methodology for B.Sc.” also offered by the Department of International Business within the Bachelor Thesis Seminar. The final mark will be based on the thesis and its presentation. The application modalities will be announced on the website of the Department of International Business. Further information can be found here.

Seminartyp: blocked

Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Koziol

General Topic: Students work intensively on a given topic through independent analysis, the presentation of the findings in the form of a written paper, as well as the findings found in the discussion.

Possible topics for the bachelor's thesis are:

1. Risk premiums on the stock market
2. Share certificates: valuation and risk analysis
3. Investment strategies on the German bond market
4. Current challenges on the capital markets

The students intensively work on and analyze a given topic within the framework topic of the seminar. Through independent analyses, the presentation of the findings in the form of a written paper as well as the discussion of the findings in the context of a short presentation, the students are enabled to comprehensively assess their topic and to compare it with the models/concepts commonly used in the literature.

Seminar type: blocked

Number of participant: 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Georg Wamser

General topic: The seminar will deal with selected topics in public economics. Students are expected to write an essay (bachelor thesis) and to present their results in class (both in English). The presentations are mandatory. The seminar is based on journal articles at the frontier of modern economic research. The articles typically evaluate public policies using modern empirical techniques. Having some basic knowledge in empirical economics is therefore very helpful. A syllabus of a former seminar can be found here.

Seminartype: weekly; registration by sending an e-mail to georg.wamserspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de (subject: E312 registration); more information available online

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Anna Gumpert

General Topic: The seminar will discuss recent research on the economic implications of digitization and information and communication technologies (ICT). We will study the effect of digitization and ICT on firms and workers. Every participant is expected to submit a written thesis and to present the main results of the thesis in a blocked seminar. Participants are also expected to actively take part in the class discussion. Students will be provided with the research papers that should be the basis of their thesis as well as some instructions. For details, see here.

Seminar type: blocked

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten

General Topic: Possible topics for the bachelor's thesis are:

1. Risk premiums on the stock market
2. Share certificates: valuation and risk analysis
3. Investment strategies on the German bond market
4. Current challenges on the capital markets

The students intensively work on and analyze a given topic within the framework topic of the seminar. Through independent analyses, the presentation of the findings in the form of a written paper as well as the discussion of the findings in the context of a short presentation, the students are enabled to comprehensively assess their topic and to compare it with the models/concepts commonly used in the literature.

Seminar type: blocked course

limited participants: 12

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Valeria Merlo

General topic: The seminar deals with topics in international, geographical, and development economics. The focus of the seminar will be on the empirical evaluation of economic policy. Having some basic knowledge of microeconometrics and microeconomic theory is necessary. Students are expected to write an essay (bachelor thesis) and to present their work (both in English). There are two different modalities: (i) students may choose to critically discuss a recent research paper, or (ii) they may conduct their own empirical research. In any case, they may choose their area of interest. The specific topic or research question will be developed together with the supervisor. For information on possible areas and topics please visit our website (Link: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/146781)

Some examples of recent bachelor theses:
Replication and extension of empirical studies using original data:

• Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Paid and Unpaid Work - Insights from School Reopenings in the UK
• The Effects of COVID-19 in Developing Countries - A Critical Analysis of Bharati and Fakir (2020)
• The effects of cash-transfers on labor informality: Evidence from Argentina
• Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India

Discussion and critical assessment of a paper:

• Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: India's Child Labor Ban
• Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Roads, Exports and Employment: Evidence from a Developing Country
• Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
• The Global Economics of Water: Is Water a Source of Comparative Advantage?
• The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
• What causes Industry Agglomeration?
• Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings
• The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification
• Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia
• The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
• Globalization and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Urban China
• Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring
• The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data
• Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India
• Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships
• Knocking on Heaven’s doors: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing

Seminartype: weekly, online

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Registration: students who have been assigned to this bachelor thesis seminar should send an E-mail to secretary.v6spam prevention@wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de (subject line "E372") within the deadline announced each term via ALMA. Please check detailed Information on our website. 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ralph Lütticke

General topic: The seminar is on monetary and fiscal policy. Students work on one of the papers/themes announced. These papers will be assigned during the introductory session. Your thesis should demonstrate that you have full understanding of what is going on in the paper and that you are able to place the issue in a broader context. A good thesis may also present some small modification to the treatment that you find in the original articles. Students become familiar with the state of the art in macroeconomic research. Against this background they perform an assessment of current policy issues. This includes an extended essay (Bachelor Thesis) and a presentation within the seminar.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig, Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen

General topic: Topics in Empirical Economics, Business and Finance; students learn how to write a term paper on a topic related the research interests of the chairs of Prof. Grammig and Prof. Biewen. They learn how to present their paper in front of a critical audience. Further information on potential topics can be found here. More information on the schedule etc. here.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Werner Neus

General Topics: The general topic for the 2024 summer semester is yet tba. Instructions for writing scientific texts. Analytical and argumentative skills are also trained. Further information on topics and registration at the beginning of February on the chair homepage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/19525; literature-based papers are assigned; the topics are given by the research unit.

Seminar Type: blocked; start in the lecture-free period; first announcement at the beginning of January; processing time usually begins in mid-March; the seminar usually takes place at the end of June/beginning of July.

Number of participants: 24 participants

Lecturer: B322a: Prof. Dr. Dominik Papies, B322b: Privatdozentin Dr. Adrienne Cansier

General Topic: In the context of this seminar selected aspects of marketing will be deepened by writing a bachelor thesis. In addition, analytical and argumentative skills are trained. Please note the information on registration deadlines and dates on the homepage of the chair.

Seminar Type: blocked

Number of participants: 12 participants per seminar 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Patrick Kampkötter

General Topic: The seminar prepares and accompanies the writing of bachelor thesis. Different topics of Managerial Accounting will be deepened by writing and discussing a bachelor thesis. Information on registration deadlines and modalities can be found on the homepage of the chair. 

The following overview shows exemplary topics that can be dealt with during the bachelor seminar:

•     Cost allocation and calculation
•     Cost accounting in banks
•     CSR reporting and controlling
•     Managerial Accounting in Hospitals (e.g. key figures for performance measurement in health care, activity-based costing in hospitals, cost unit accounting, risk monitoring)
•     Managerial Accounting at Universities (Balanced Scorecard/Academic Scorecard, Calculation of Course Costs, Overhead Cost Allocation at Universities)
•     Digitalization in accounting
•     Environmental Cost Accounting/Carbon Accounting
•     Managerial Accounting and Sustainability: Sustainable Value Added
•     Transfer pricing
•     Budgeting
•     Current trends in cost management

Seminar Type: blocked

Number of participants: 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Martin Ruf

General Topic: The content of the seminar and the registration deadlines and modalities will be announced on the homepage of the chair before the end of the lecture period of the previous semester. Here, you find what subjects have been assigned previously.

Seminar Type: blocked

Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Markus Hitz

General Topic: Graduates are able to work independently on a problem within a given period of time using scientific methods and to present the results thus obtained in an appropriate written form in a Bachelor's thesis. They are also able to present their findings orally and to defend their own arguments in a discussion. In addition, graduates acquire knowledge in all subject areas of the seminar. Here you can find a leaflet about writing scientific papers at the chair.

Seminar Type: regularly throughout the semester

Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Markus Pudelko

General topic: Students writing their Bachelor thesis with the Department of International Business will have to attend this seminar in order to present the key outcomes of their thesis. In order to write the Bachelor thesis and participate in the Bachelor Thesis Seminar, students will have to pass beforehand the sessions on “Introduction into Research Methodology for B.Sc.” also offered by the Department of International Business within the Bachelor Thesis Seminar. The final mark will be based on the thesis and its presentation. Further information can be found here.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Georg Wamser

General topic: The seminar will deal with selected topics in public economics. Students are expected to write an essay (bachelor thesis) and to present their results in class (both in English). The presentations are mandatory. The seminar is based on journal articles at the frontier of modern economic research. The articles typically evaluate public policies using modern empirical techniques. Having some basic knowledge in empirical economics is therefore very helpful.

Seminartype: weekly; registration by sending an e-mail to georg.wamserspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de (subject: E312 registration); more information available online; a syllabus of a former seminar can be found here.

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller, Prof. Dr. Willi Mutschler

General topic: Climate Change: We revisit recent empirical and theoretical research on the Economics of Climate Change. Students are expected to write a 20-page essay (“thesis”) and to present in class (both in English). In doing so, they start from one of the research papers listed below. The objective of the seminar is twofold. First, students are expected to study the research paper in detail and in departing from the paper develop and pursue a slightly original research question in a Bachelor thesis. We recommend the following books as a background reading:

• Emanuel, K. (2016), Climate Science and Climate Risk: A Primer
• Gates, B. (2021), How to avoid a climate disaster (if you want the epub version of the book, please email willi.mutschler@uni-tuebingen.de)

The first text provides some very basic discussion from the perspective of climate science. Gates’ text is an easy read which provides a rather broad, if somewhat superficial discussion of a range of topics at the intersection of economics and climate science. Note: it is not necessary to read any of these texts. Topics might include:

• Transition to Clean Technology
• Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
• The Fiscal Costs of Climate Change
• The Rising Cost of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bond Market
• Where is the carbon premium? Global performance of green and brown stocks
• Do investors care about carbon risk?
• Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
• Temperature and Growth: A Panel Analysis of the United States
• Climate-Change Pledges, Actions, and Outcomes
• Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
• Disaster risks, disaster strikes, and economic growth: The role of preferences
• Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion
• Climate Policy and Innovation: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis
• The distributional effects of a carbon tax on current and future generations
• Central banking challenges posed by uncertain climate change and natural disasters
• Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity
• Suboptimal Climate Policy
• How should environmental policy respond to business cycles? Optimal policy under persistent productivity shocks
• Carbon tariffs: An analysis of the trade, welfare, and emission effects
• Averting Catastrophes: The Strange Economics of Scylla and Charybdis
• Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Carbon Taxes
• Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy
• Greenflation?
• Dissecting green returns
• The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
• The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price

You can here find information on former seminars on this topic.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: Please register for this course on Ilias; 24 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Stähler

General topic: This seminar will deal with different selected topics in economics, mostly, but not exclusively, from the field of international economics. Having attended an international economics class is therefore helpful, but not mandatory.

Before the seminar, all students will be emailed a list of topics. The list of topics will include areas like international cooperation, econommic integration and disintergration, market power in international markets, and digital markets and its potential regulation. Students will be asked to let us know about their preferences after which we will assign topics.

There is a two-stage process to attend this seminar: first you have to sign up with the Examination Office, and second, you will get an email from us with the details of the seminar. You are expected to write a 20 page essay.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Baten

General Topic: In a bachelor thesis on economic history, economic history data sets are independently processed and analysed. The focus can be on a specific world region or on the comparison of different world regions. In coordination with the supervisor, the students select their central topic themselves and can thus deepen their specialisation in a world region during their studies. Depending on the topic, the data sets used can either be collected independently or provided by the chair. During the working process, the students are accompanied in writing this scientific work. The main results are presented and defended in the seminar. In addition to individual supervision, there are also small group lessons (n.a.).

Seminar Type: blocked (n.a).

Number of participants: 12 participants

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Merlo

General topic: The seminar deals with topics in international, geographical, and development economics. The focus of the seminar will be on the empirical evaluation of economic policy. Having some basic knowledge of microeconometrics and microeconomic theory is necessary. Students are expected to write an essay (bachelor thesis) and to present their work (both in English). There are two different modalities: (i) students may choose to critically discuss a recent research paper, or (ii) they may conduct their own empirical research. In any case, they may choose their area of interest. The specific topic or research question will be developed together with the supervisor. For information on possible areas and topics please visit our website (Link: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/146781)

Some examples of recent bachelor theses:
Replication and extension of empirical studies using original data:

• Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Paid and Unpaid Work - Insights from School Reopenings in the UK
• The Effects of COVID-19 in Developing Countries - A Critical Analysis of Bharati and Fakir (2020)
• The effects of cash-transfers on labor informality: Evidence from Argentina
• Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India

Discussion and critical assessment of a paper:

• Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: India's Child Labor Ban
• Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Roads, Exports and Employment: Evidence from a Developing Country
• Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
• The Global Economics of Water: Is Water a Source of Comparative Advantage?
• The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
• What causes Industry Agglomeration?
• Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings
• The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification
• Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia
• The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
• Globalization and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Urban China
• Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring
• The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data
• Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India
• Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships
• Knocking on Heaven’s doors: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing

Seminartype: weekly

Limited attendance: 12 participants

Registration: students who have been assigned to this bachelor thesis seminar should send an E-mail to secretary.v6spam prevention@wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de (subject line "E372") within the deadline announced each term via ALMA. Please check detailed Information on our website. 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen, Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig

General Topic: Topics in Empirical Economics, Business and Finance. Students learn how to write a term paper on a topic related the research interests of the chairs of Prof. Joachim Grammig and Prof. Martin Biewen. They learn how to present their paper in front of a critical audience. Further information on potential topics can be found here. More information on the schedule etc. here.

Seminartype: blocked

Limited attendance: 24 participants