The Chair of Public Management (Prof. Dr Doina Radulescu and team) deals with a wide range of topics on which students can write their Master's theses. The main focus is on:
1. Energy economics:
- Market-based tools to promote the spread of solar energy systems
- Impacts and challenges of the transition of the energy system towards renewable energy
- Analysing the significance of various factors influencing the spread of electric cars
- Analysis of energy efficiency certifications and targeted investments (e.g. bunching of benchmarks and capitalisation of investments)
2. Economic policy issues:
- Regressivity analysis of energy expenditure
- Analysing the welfare effects of corporate and income taxes
3. Regulation:
- Distributional effects of the design of energy tariffs
- Effectiveness of market-based tools with the aim of reducing greenhouse gases
4. Applied econometrics:
- Estimation of price elasticities of electricity and heating energy demand
- Estimation of price elasticities of electricity demand for charging electric cars
5. Role of the state in an economy:
- Social opinion on the role of the state
- International comparison of attitudes towards the state
Topics from other areas can also be supervised, provided they are suitable for the degree programme from the professorship's point of view and competent supervision can be guaranteed.
Master's thesis topics are either suggested by the students or there are suggestions for topics to choose from.
The Master's theses can be either more research-orientated or practice-orientated. The former are characterised by their ability to connect to a current debate in academic discourse or in relevant journals. The latter follow the idea of ‘from practice - for practice’, i.e. they are driven by an interest in knowledge from economic policy and analyse or recommend theory-based solutions for practice.
The aim of every Master's thesis is to follow the guideline of ‘Relevance & Rigour’ in its elaboration, i.e. topics relevant to science and practice are theoretically well-founded and carefully worked on using scientific methods.
For further information please see the attached document below (in german).
