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Beachten Sie hierzu bitte die allgemeinen Formvorgaben zur Anfertigung der Abschlussarbeit und die in der für Sie gültigen Prüfungsordnung.

Economic growth

Growth empirics

• Convergence hypothesis
• The labor productivity in West and East Germany
• Growth regressions & growth accounting
• The effects of monetary unions/trade unions/free trade areas on economic growth

Financial markets and economic growth

• The effects of credit constraints on the innovation activity of small and large firms
• Trade finance, credit constraints and economic growth

Innovation, Resources and Economics growth

• (Long-term) economic growth and the German “Energiewende“
• The effects of robots on economic growth and welfare

Monetary theory and policy

Empirical observations on monetary policy

• The role of seignorage gains in (USA, Germany, China, EU, OECD, World)
• A Taylor rule for the European Monetary Union
• Income and Interest rate elasticity of money demand in (USA, Germany, China, EU, OECD, World)
• The determinants of the output gap in (USA, Germany, China, EU, OECD, World)
• Money illusion, non-neutrality and economic growth/ business cycle

Recent monetary policy

• The effects of unconventional monetary policy on financial and price stability
• Distributional effects of monetary policy
• The risk-taking channel and monetary policy
• The natural rate hypothesis

Business Cycle and international macroeconomics

Business cycle facts in Europe and the World

• Did the Euro change the business cycles in Eastern European Economies?
• Can Remittances stabilize international business cycle fluctuations?
• Stabilization of business cycles in the European Monetary Union through monetary of fiscal policy

Cyclical fluctuations of wages and unemployment

• What explains the time-varying cyclical fluctuation of real wages in Europe
• Evidence for a Wage Phillips Curve in Europe

Causes and Consequences of resource price fluctuations

• Innovation, Demand or Strategic Supply?: What explains the oil price decrease between 2014-15
• Oil price asymmetries: Does a decreasing oil price really lead to higher output/welfare?

Causes and Consequences of current account divergence and convergence in Europe and the World

Beispiele bereits bearbeiteter Themen

• A RBC model with intensive and extensive margin to explain the labor market fluctuations before and after the German Reunification (2015)
• The role of financial market frictions on Schumpeterian economic growth (2015)
• Patterns of income inequality in developed economics (2014)
• Rational asset price bubbles in an OLG model - The influence of monetary policy (2014)
• The economic benefits of EU accession for the CEEC (2014)