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