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 pageSwiss 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