Theses

I am available to supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses that align with my research interests. If you are considering a topic in this area, feel free to contact me to discuss potential supervision.

Below, you can find some useful resources and data sources for your thesis.

Resources and data

In the following, you will find a list of pages with information about publicly available datasets. Please check the links for more information on the respective datasets:

Formatting requirements

  • Term papers need to be written in English
  • Thesis length:
    • term papers /seminars: 20 pages
    • bachelor theses: 25 pages
    • master theses: 65 pages
    • Pages refer to main text and all figures (not included: table of contents, assurance, and references)
  • Font: Times New Roman (or similar); Line spacing: 1,5; Font size: 12pt
  • Please use in-text citations (such as “as shown by Mayer (2008)” or “text here (Mayer, 2008).”) instead of citations in footnotes.

Assurance

Each thesis needs to include a signed assurance to assure that it is the student’s work. You can use the following text for your thesis:

I assure that I have written the above thesis independently and without outside help and that I have not made use of any aids other than those indicated in the enclosed lists. All text passages that have been taken verbatim or in spirit from third-party publications are identified as such. All sources taken from the World Wide Web or used in a digital form are attached to the work. No other persons were involved in the intellectual achievement of the present work. In particular, I have not enlisted the help of a ghostwriter or ghostwriting agency. Third parties have neither directly nor indirectly received money or monetary benefits from me for work related to the content of the submitted work. I hereby consent to the performance of an electronic plagiarism check. The submitted electronic version of the thesis is complete. I am aware that subsequent additions are excluded. The work has not yet been submitted to any other examination authority and has not been published. I am aware that an untrue statement regarding the assurance of independent performance may have legal consequences.

Place, date, signature of the submitting candidate.

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