Bachelor Thesis and Semester Projects

The topics offered in Professor Filippini's chair are provided below. If you are interested in writing your thesis at our chair you can write an e-mail to Dr. Ursa Bernardic and include the following information:

  • Academic transcript and a statement that you fulfill the requirements (Guidelines | Leitfaden (only available in German))
  • Your research topics of interest
  • Preferred starting date

Semester projects and bachelor theses can be written in German or English.

Topics

All bachelor thesis and semester projects supervised at Professor Filippini's chair are empirically oriented.  

  • Efficiency of current street-light policy in the canton of Zurich
  • Effect of temperature/weather shocks on occupational structures in Swiss municipalities
  • Effect of electricity price changes and temperature/weather shocks on the choice of heating systems
  • Fiscal Illusion and Electricity Prices in Switzerland
  • Intra-household decision-making and its role in energy efficiency
  • Energy-related financial literacy and determinants of consumption choices in young people
  • Energy and investment literacy
  • Demand for energy efficient lighting
  • Life styles, attitudes and energy consumption
  • The level of energy policy awareness of households
  • Energy efficiency investments in the building sector
  • Demand for Minergie houses
  • Energy consumption and the ageing society
  • Barriers towards adopting electric bikes in developing countries
  • Gross energy prices under an ETS