Seminar 2nd (or higher) semester
Master in International Economics & Public Policy (MIEPP)
Teaching staff: Jean Roch Donsimoni and Klaus Wälde
Seminar announcement
- General topic overview
This seminar offers students a wide range of options and actually also almost free choice of seminar topics they want to work on. As "almost free" is pretty large, let us be more precise. The chair cannot supervise seminar topics with a purely econometric background (but we love and supervise structural estimation approaches), topics on monetary theory and policy (but we are happy to cover the great recession starting in 2007 and leading to debt and Euro crises and a topic on central bank supervision of private banks would be feasible), topics in experimental economics (but we are experts on behavioural economic theory) or advanced game theory.
If you want some inspiration, please look at our previous or current seminars on global warming (announcement in German), bounded rationality, numerical methods for dynamic models, taxation and redistribution or behavioural and emotional economics.
You can also have a look at the topics covered in Advanced Macro in the first term or in Labour Economics in the second term to get further ideas. Our page on Master theses contains even more ideas.
Please feel free to come to our first meeting (see below) and discuss or suggest topics.
- Two special topics
I) Redistribution of GDP
For more information see here
II) Psychology, management and econometrics
In addition to these topics, we also have a suggestion for a seminar paper that is at the intersection of psychology, management and econometrics.
We are extremely grateful to Guy Bodenmann, Nathalie Meuwly and Fridtjof Nussbeck for having shared their data with us which they used in their analysis "Effects of Stress on the Social Support Provided by Men and Women in Intimate Relationships" published in Psychological Science (2015). An appendix to this analysis is also available. As a background, one can look at an earlier study and for methods, Edwards and Lambert (2007) is a useful starting point.
The seminar paper would replicate the findings of the authors and apply further econometric methods to understand their central findings. The importance for economic questions like labour supply or productivity on the job should be worked out. Some joy in working with data and using Stata or matlab is an advantage.
Time schedule
* Introductory session (compulsory attendance) and topic assignment:
26 October 2018, 9 - 11 am., room HS V (old Rewi)
* Submission deadline for seminar papers: Friday, 25 January 2019
Please hand in one stapled paper version to the Pedell (room RW 6 - New ReWi) and send a pdf-file by Email to jdonsimo(at)uni-mainz.de.
* Presentations: Friday, 8 February 2019, 9 am. - 1 pm., room RW 6 Bürocontainer
* Please see our guidelines for seminar participants