The Chair of Sustainable Market Design offers supervision for bachelor's and master's theses as well as project studies. The topic and methodology should be based on the chair's main areas of research.

As part of your preparation, we strongly recommend that you develop your own research idea, but we are happy to advise you throughout the process. To give you some food for thought, we have compiled a list of research areas covered by the potential supervisors at our chair (see below). In the case of a master's thesis, the project study can be used to develop the research idea.

In terms of methodology, theses at our chair can generally be classified into five categories:

• Theoretical modeling
  Development of a (small) game theory model for economic interaction and analysis of strategic behavior using equilibrium concepts.
• Experimental design
  Design of an experiment to answer an economic question and presentation of the procedure for evaluating the results.
• Empirical analysis
  Investigation of an economic hypothesis using statistical methods based on a data set.
• Economic policy discourse
  Examination of the effects of an economic policy decision (e.g., a new law) based on scientific arguments.
• Literature review
  Presentation of the scientific discourse on a specific topic with an outlook on possible starting points for innovative research questions.

If you are interested, please contact Philip Zilke by email at an early stage. The topic will only be finalized and assigned after official registration with the Examination Office, which marks the official start of the processing period.

Information on the specific requirements for the structure of your thesis and formal conditions can be found in our guidelines.

Research areas for theses

Prof. Dr. Vitali Gretschko

• Market Design
• Auction Theory
• Mechanism design

PD Dr. Jörg Lingens

• Resource Economics
• Energy Markets
• Competition Economics

Dr. Daniil Larionov

• Auction Theory
• Information Acquisition
• Algorithmic game theory

Philip Zilke

• Applied Game Theory
• Market Design for bond auctions
• Sustainability commitment mechanisms