This cover letter should be at maximum a half of a page and refers to the following points:
- Do you have experience in the field of applied regression analysis? Or are you willing to learn about it? Do you know the term “Panel Data”? (You can look it up in some books available in the library such as, Wooldridge and Studenmund). Have you ever estimated a regression by yourself? (This is not mandatory).
- Would you be willing to visit an archive in another city or abroad for 2-3 days? Are you planning to do a semester abroad or to travel somewhere else to visit friends? (All of this is not obligatory and is not required to write a first-class thesis as well, especially since we have data available in our department as well. However, some students were very interested in this option and performed very well. Other students concentrated more on the econometric analysis, also with very good results).
- When do you want to write your thesis?
- Do you have already found two or three topics that sounds interesing for you?
- Are you able doing regressions yourself in STATA?
