If you are interested in writing your Master thesis under our supervision, please fill in the corresponding form in ILIAS. In addition, please do contact us. For your Master thesis, please observe the formal guidelines described here.

We also encourage you to propose empirical Master theses projects that are carried out during internships at companies or research institutions.

The following is a list of topics that were chosen by recent Master graduates who completed their Master thesis under our supervision.

2024

• Applying a Regression Discontinuity Design with Flexible Covariate Adjustments to Administrative Public Pension Data
• Econometric Analysis of the German Income Distribution using the Microcensus
• Using the GB2 Distribution to Model the Distribution of Pre-tax Income in the State of New York
• Modeling Income Dynamics in Germany Using Distributional Random Forests and German Microcensus Data
• Changes in the wage distribution in urban China: an application of RIF regression
• Utilizing time series clustering to improve the forecast of a Deep Learning model

2023

• Analysis of the gender wage gap in China
• Energy efficiency of low-income households
• Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Physical Activity on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive skills of University Students in Germany

2022

• R&D, innovation output and productivity in Spanish firms
• The impact of expected match outcomes on publicly listed football clubs stock return and volatility: An event study
• Allergic Disease Trajectory Prediction
• An Empirical Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches for Value-at-Risk Forecasting
• Determinants of Individual Healthcare Expenditure: A Two-Part Model Approach with Feature Selection
• Deep Learning for Tabular Data: A Demand Forecasting Use Case at Lidl
• The Child Penalty in Germany: How Children Determine the Gender Pay Gap in Germany
• Interpretable Machine Learning - Performance of LIME in the wild

2021

• Developing a Predictive Analytics Application for Classification Problems using R and Shiny
• The Gender Salary Gap in China
• Cross Country Analysis of Wealth Distributions
• Machine learning techniques for forecasting the direction of stock prices in emerging markets
• Empirical Analysis of Basketball Player Performance Measures
• Application of Machine Learning to Quantitative Trading

2020

• Sample Selection in Quantile Regression: Implementing the Arellano Bonhomme estimation ins Stata
• Machine Learning for Prioritization of Business Opportunity
• Inproving vehicle loan default prediction using machine learning techniques - a comparison of tree-based models with logistic regression
• Acquiring Innovation: An Empirical Analysis of European Merger Markets
• Decomposing the Wage Distribution of Refugee Mirgrants in Germany
• Assisted dat analyses in Controing using regression and anomaly detectim
• Determinants of Education-Job Mismatch for German Graduates

2019

• Econometric Analysis of the German Wage Distribution - The Evolution of Inequality and it's Determinants
• The impact of family formation on university graduates' non - transiton to MINT occupation
• An Econometric Analysis of Wage Differences for Gender in China
• Using Machine Learning Methods to Model Financial Distress in the Banking Sector
• Capital Structure, ownership and firm performance a comparison between Asian and European companies at the financial crisis
• Prediction of cansumer credit default risk via machine learning models

2018

• An Economic Analysis of Differences in Executive Compensation
• Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels and the Transition into Self-Employment - Evidence from Spain -
• Financial Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques
• Modeling Employment Changes and Labor Incomes in the Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB)
• Machine Learning Methods in Economics: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects under Honesty

2016

• Career trajectories after in-firm vocational training in Germany
• The Role of Hours Worked: An Econometric Analysis of the German Wage Distribution

2015

• The Effect of Offshoring on the German Wage Distribution: An Empirical Analysis

2014

• Econometric Analysis of German Households Portfolio Shares Using a Dirichlet-Multionomial Model
• Decomposition of wage inequality in Turkey: 2006-2011

2013

• Retail Store or Online Shop? Econometric Analysis of Household Distribution Channel Choice
• Econometric Analysis of the Persistence of Individual Smoking Behaviour in Germany
• A Non-Parametric Analysis of Income Inequality over the Life Cycle
• Econometric Modeling of the Intertemporal Labor Force Participation of German Women

2012

• Bayesian Networks in Business and Economics
• Modeling Income Distribution in Italy: Parametric Approaches

2011

• Inequality development in Germany in the last decade: A counterfactual decomposition of driving forces
• Modelling of the Rating Transitions
• Bayesian Networks in Business and Economics

2010

• Moral Hazard and Liquidity Effects of Unemployment Benefits – Evidence from Germany
• Analyzing Dynamics of Wage Distribution using Nonparametric Bounds: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel