Master Thesis
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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