Teaching

Courses

Spring Semester 2018

Autumn Semester 2017

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Thesis Supervision

Prerequisites a student should comply with

Students must be enrolled in a degree program in Economics or Finance, or any related field. Students should have a strong background in macroeconomics, econometrics and international finance and should be interested in broadening their knowledge in one or more of the following areas: monetary economics, time series econometrics, international macroeconomics, macro labor economics and economics of income, wealth and their distributions.

All empirical thesis require programming skills. Therefore students should have solid experience in programming in either R, Python, Julia or Matlab (open source software is preferred). Knowledge of Git or a markup language (LaTeX/ Markdown) is not a prerequisite but advantageous.

The thesis must be written in English.

To apply for supervision, please email me the following items:

  • Up-to-date academic transcript
  • Short CV
  • Rough description of your thesis topic idea
  • Time period in which you want to write your thesis

Bachelor Thesis

International economics

  • The spectre of secular stagnation in a historical perspective. (Literature research)
  • Ageing population and income convergence in Europe. (Literature and/ or empirical research)
  • The impossible trinity in a globalised world. How does it connect to hyper globalization, national sovereignty and democratic politics? (Literature research)

Master's Thesis

Monetary economics/ Time series econometrics

  • Did unconventional monetary policy have positive spill overs on emerging economics?
  • How did asset purchases impact the spreads between euro area long-term yields?
  • Unconventional monetary policy: Announcement or purchase shock. Can we draw a quantitative difference?
  • High frequency identification of MP shocks. What constitutes a good instrument?
  • Market expectations vs. survey expectations in a forecasting framework.
  • Comparing (Bayesian) Structural Vector Autoregressive models with local projection models for monetary policy analysis.

International economics

  • Is the middle class converging in Europe?
  • The impact of EU structural funds during the Great recession.
  • Market size and (the lack of) competition. Evidence from Estonia.

Macro labour economics

  • The impact of business cycle dynamics on incomes and wages across their distribution.

Please contact me for further information