Master Thesis

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. Suchita Srinivasan and include the following information:

  • Academic transcript and a statement that you fulfill the requirements (Guidelines)
  • Your research topics of interest
  • Preferred starting date

 

Master Thesis Topics

All master thesis supervised at Professor Filippini's chair are empirically oriented.   

Applied Econometrics in Environmental, Energy, and Public Economics:

  • Rationalizing Behavioural idiosyncrasies using revealed preference approach: A survey and possible extensions
  • Cultural differences in sustainable consumption: Comparing reviews for different sustainable labels in Switzerland
  • Effect of weather on prosocial behavior
  • 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
  • Estimation of the level of energy efficiency for the US states and analyzing the impact of the energy efficiency policies using the energy efficiency scorecard
  • Barriers towards adopting electric bikes in developing countries
  • Determinants of beliefs of future fuel prices in developing countries
  • Determinants of the demand for sustainable food
  • Water fee in hydro power sector
  • Evaluation of energy efficiency policies and programmes
  • A topic using data from the external page Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS)
  • Analysis of the level of energy efficiency of European countries
  • Productivity and efficiency analysis of hydro power plants
  • Analysis of the factors influencing the choice of electric vehicles
  • Analysis of the use of public charging stations for electric vehicles
  • Determinants of withdrawls of pension wealth to finance self-used home ownership
  • Analysis of pension contribution behavior after a divorce
  • Retail investor demand for sustainable finance products