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Research idea collection for writing a master thesis in Economics/Econometrics.

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Research Ideas

Research Idea Collection for Papers, Seminar Papers, or Possible Master's Thesis Topics

  • Influence of Business Cycles on Education System Workloads and Human Capital Accumulation: Individual or Institutional Leverage? (Economics of Education / Labor Market Economics)

  • Lasso Regression Model for Stock Returns Over the FOMC Cycle (Financial Econometrics)

  • Determinants of Political Office-Holders Completing Their Terms (Political Economy)

  • Impact of Health Shocks on Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes (Labor Economics / Health Economics)

  • Drivers/Determinants of Tech Mass Layoffs (Using Whistleblower Data from the U.S. Tech Industry, e.g., https://layoffs.fyi/) (Labor Market Economics / Industrial Organization)

  • Determinants and Self-Selection Bias of Caffeine Consumption (Find Suitable Survey Data, Medical Literature Review) (Health Economics / Behavioral Economics)

  • Draw a Topic from Momentum Institut's Junior Fellowship Topics, Especially "Regulatory Capture" (Political Economy / Regulatory Economics)

  • (Partial) Replication / Extension / Re-estimation / Analysis of "The Economic Commitment of Climate Change" by Kotz et al. (2024) in Nature Vol. 628 (Environmental Economics)

  • Determinants of the Rise of Cancer Among Young Adults: Evidence from US and Austria (Data > 2009) (Health Economics / Demography)

  • Evidence of the 'Bannister'-Effect (a Psychological Belief Phenomenon) Using Regression Discontinuity Designs (Sports Economics / Behavioral Economics)

  • Within-Country Firm Size, Structure (MNCs?) and Its Relation to Foreign Direct Investment (International Economics / Industrial Organization)

  • Geofencing (in the EU) and Its Relation to Offline/Online-Price-Dispersion (if Existent) (Industrial Organization / Spatial Economics)

  • (Within-Country) Proxy Price Contagion in C2C Online Markets: Woom Bikes Price Contagion (Spatial Econometrics / Industrial Organization)

  • "Ice Nine Kills" - Psychological Pricing (e.g., 90, 9, 95, 99) Various (Sectoral) Estimates C2C vs. B2C in Online Marketplace (Online Market Places)

  • "If it's Boeing, it isn't Going.": Current Determinants of Air Accidents (See Tally (1990) First / Scrape All FAA Reports and Text Mining) (Transportation Economics / Safety Economics)

  • Testing the Similarity of (Quantile) Skewness in Competitive Sports and Population's Income (Across and Within-Country / Link to Political Economy?) (Sports Economics / Income Distribution)

  • On the Predictive Power of VO2 Max in Various Contexts (Sports Economics / Health Economics)

  • Decomposition, Degree of Pre-Determination of VO2 Max (Sports Science / Health Economics)

  • Goal Bunching in Soccer Games? e.g., at 30', 45' or 90' Goals Per Minute x Minute Because of 'Nachspielzeit' for Each Half (Sports Economics)

  • PFAS Data from The Forever Pollution Project: Linking PFAS Sites to Austrian Health Register Data (fakten -> Zuordnung diag_key : vers_key (inkl. 60% plz data), data < 2009, only OÖ & Vbg.)

    No spatial ID strategy:

    Spatial ID Strategy 1: 1. Identify Water sources/types around the sites manually, 2. Calculate the theoretical hydrogeological flow of groundwater around the sites (direction and extent), 3. Construct a spatial weight matrix of neighboring postal codes based on 1. and 2. (Alternativly, skip 1. and 2. initially and use a Contiguity.), 4. include a spatial error term in the spatial model for other missing control variables at the postal code level

    Spatial ID Strategy 2: 1. Identify the amout of commuters around each prod. sites and it's extend and direction for constructing spatial weight matrices.

    Other Strategy:

    Initial Model Spec.:

    • Spatial Durbin Model (SDM), if goal is unbiased betas of non-spatial parameters.,
    • SAC: Main goal testing a spatial theory (diffusion/channel) whilst controlling for other spatial deps.,
    • Spatial Error Durbin Model (SDEM) (if other unobservable spatial-effects).
  • Models Using the CPI (Corruption Perceptions Index, not Consumer Price Index) CPI Econ

  • Spatiotemporal Analysis of Index funds: An approach for quantifying cluster risk

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Research idea collection for writing a master thesis in Economics/Econometrics.