Seminars and Theses

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Seminars

Research Seminars (MSc. VWL)
- Target Trap or Outrage Trap? On the German Discussion about the European Monetary Union
- Financial Market Regulation
- Experimental Industrial Economics
- Non-Performing Loans (NPL) in the Euro Area
- Doing Well by Doing Good
- Causes of the low interest rate environment and its impact on households, the financial sector and the public sector
- Entrepreneurship
- Ethical banking and investment

 

Project seminars (BSc. Wiwi)
- Empirical analysis of payment behaviour in Rostock
- Cash abolition and digital currencies
- Financing of family businesses
- Financing SMEs in the new federal states:  The role of support programmes with special reference to guarantee banks
- Consequences of a Unified Monetary Policy for the Member States of the EMU
- The Banker's New Clothes
- Financial speculation with agricultural commodities
- Financial crises
- International comparison of banking systems
- Corporate Governance Systems in International Comparison
- Organisation and strategies of central banks
- Banking regulation and stability of the financial system
- Entrepreneurship

Seminar for LA-Students
- Money and money creation: Established and alternative approaches and explanations
- Current issues in economic policy
- The banker's new clothes
- Money, Credit and Banks
- European Monetary Union

Theses
Topics assigned for Bachelor theses (examples)

- Inflation in Europe and its impact on Low-Income Households

- European Banking Regulation since the 2008 Financial Crisis: Where Are We Today?

- The controversy surrounding the effectiveness of monetary policy since the start of the Ukrainian war in 2022

- The role of the economy in financial education offers in schools

- Financial sanctions - development, forms and effects

- Ethical investment: A critical analysis of the transparency of sustainable and value-oriented financial products

- Advantages and disadvantages of a possible abolition of cash

- Economic Development and Selective Protectionism

- The Independence of the European Central Bank in the Institutional Web of Fiscal Policy Measures in the Euro Area

- Cryptocurrencies - Macroeconomic Risks and Implications for Regulation

- Islamic finance - opportunities and challenges for German financial services providers

- Are loans made from total bank deposits or out of thin air? A survey study with bank managers

 

Topics assigned for Master's theses (examples)

- Monetary facts revisited: the money-inflation nexus and the credit-crisis nexus

- Opportunities and risks of a European Capital Markets Union

- Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on corporate loans - the role of different business models of banks

- Effects of information asymmetries of private households on the expectations channel in the monetary policy transmission mechanism

- Monetary vs. non-monetary inflation theories: A critical comparison

- The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the supply and use of cash

- One system for all? Opportunities and risks of digital payment systems

- The pricing of external environmental follow-up costs in food production and their distributional effects on private households in Germany

- The steering and distributional effects of a CO2 tax on private households in Germany

- Islamic Banking in Germany: A Market Potential Analysis

- Has the ECB been able to stimulate aggregate demand and avoid deflation with its monetary policy?