Students Thesis / Term Papers

Are you a student interested in writing a Master Thesis at our Chair? Then, this is the right place for you!

The official requirements for a Master Thesis at the Chair of Economics/Resource Economics are

Candidates should ideally have a solid background in Economics/Resource Economics
The thesis needs to include economic modelling: theoretical and/or empirical
Topics of the theses are determined in cooperation with the mentor/supervisor.

Does it sound like you?

Then, please follow the steps:

1. Check the requirements for the Master Thesis at MTEC department here: https://mtec.ethz.ch/studies/programme-details/master-thesis.html. Make sure that the requirements are satisfied.

2. Check the requirement about the solid background in Economics/Resource Economics.

A guideline for this requirement - e.g. it is fully satisfied if you successfully passed the following courses and/or their equivalents:

Resource and Environmental Economics, Prof. Bretschger
Principles in Microeconomics, Prof. Filippini
Principles in Macroeconomics, Prof. Sturm
Economic Growth, Cycles and Policy, Prof.Gerschbach
Decisions and Markets, Prof. Bommier

We strongly advice the students to pass the courses above in order to make sure that the knowledge background of the student matches the topic of the thesis.

3. Check the list of proposed topics for the thesis below. You can chose a couple of the topics below and/or propose your own topic

4. All set? Then, please send an email to Veronika Stolbova containing the expresssion of interest with the following items:

CV
Transcripts of records for the courses
Chosen/proposed topic

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Applicants for a MSc-master’s thesis, MAS-master’s thesis, D-USYS Bachelor Thesis or a Term Paper at our chair should contact Veronika Stolbova by email.