S322 Bachelor Thesis in Empirical Economics
This seminar is jointly offered by the chairs of Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen (Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods) and Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig (Econometrics, Statistics and Empirical Economics).
Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Martin Biewen Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig Dr. Thomas Dimpfl Dr. Franziska Peter Dipl.-Vw. Stephan Jank Dipl.-Vw. Gideon Becker Dipl.-Vw. Tobias Langen |
Profiles | B.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration B.Sc. in Interantional Economics B.Sc. in Interantional Business Administration |
Level | 3. year Bachelor |
Time and Place | See timeline below |
Prerequisites | At least one of the following courses has been successfully completed: Applied Econometrics Applied Time Series Multivariate Methods in Finance and Marketing |
Language | English or German |
Credit Points | 7.5 |
Exam | 1. Presentation of draft (20min) 2. Bachelor thesis (15 pages) 3. Final presentation (20min) |
Preliminary meeting | 24.04.2012, 18:00, Mohlstraße 36 |
Timeline
24.04.2012 | Preliminary meeting, registration | room 332, Mohlstr. 36 | |
until 16.05.2012 | Discussion of the chosen topic with supervisor | ||
18.05.2012 | Start of bachelor thesis | ||
08.06.2012 | Presentation of first draft and feedback | ||
29.06.2012 | Deadline for submitting bachelor thesis | ||
12.07.2012 | Presentation of final thesis | ||
General information
- The aim of the bachelor thesis is to show the ability of a student to discuss a problem or a subject in statistics or econometrics in a scientific way.
- The bachelor thesis covers a maximum of 15 pages text. Extensive figures and tables should be deferred to the appendix. The appendix is not included in the page limit.
- 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 in advance 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 (but German thesis and presentations will be accepted as well).
Formal guidelines
- Formal guidelines for the written thesis are provided in the following document.
- 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.