Teaching

Teaching in the Summer Term 2025

  • Mikroökonomie, Bachelor’s in Business and Economics
  • Seminar Economics of Human Capital, Master’s in Economics
  • Economics of Innovation, Master’s in Economics; Syllabus

 

Theses

I am always happy to supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in the areas of labor economics, economics of education, and economics of innovation. If you are interested in writing your thesis in one of these areas, please send me an e-mail so we can discuss potential topics and my availability.

 

Current potential topics for theses:

Master’s level (own econometric work strongly encouraged):

  • Valuations for job amenities
  • Libraries and educational attainment

Bachelor’s level:

  • Work hours mismatch (contains empirical work)
  • Pay transparency in the labor market
  • Teamwork in science
  • Compensating wage differentials in the labor market
  • Strategic supply of job amenities
  • Beliefs, job search, and labor supply

If you are interested in a different topic in labor, education, or innovation economics, please let me know!

 

Topics of recent graduates include:

  • Gender differences in non-wage amenities (Master’s thesis)
  • Work from Home: A Labor Economics Perspective
  • Green Innovation in the Automotive Industry (Master’s thesis)
  • The Impact of Technology on the Labor Market
  • The Impact of Patents on Follow-On Innovation
  • Classroom Peer Effects of Immigrants: New Empirical Approaches (Master’s thesis)

For some guidance on how to write your thesis, see this PDF (English) or this PDF (German).

 

Past Teaching at FAU

  • Winter Term 2024/2025: Labor Economics, Bachelor International Economic Studies
  • Winter Term 2024/2025: Game Theory, Master in Economics
  • Winter Term 2024/2025: Seminar on Labour and Education Economics, Master’s level, Syllabus
  • Winter Term 2023/2024: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“
  • Winter Term 2023/2024: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy
  • Winter Term 2023/2024: Master’s Seminar on Labor and Education Economics Syllabus
  • Summer Term 2023: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„
  • Summer Term 2023: Master’s seminar „Economics of Human Capital“
  • Winter Term 2022/23: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“
  • Winter Term 2022/23: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“
  • Summer Term 2022: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„
  • Summer Term 2022: Master’s Seminar „Economics of Human Capital“
  • Winter Term 2021/22: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“, Syllabus
  • Winter Term 2021/22: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“, Syllabus
  • Summer Term 2021: Master’s Seminar „Economics of Human Capital“, Course website
  • Summer Term 2021: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„, Syllabus
  • Winter Term 2020/21: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“, Syllabus
  • Winter Term 2020/21: Bachelorseminar „Herausforderungen der Wissensgesellschaft“, Syllabus
  • Summer Term 2020: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation“, Syllabus
  • Winter 2019/20: Proseminar „Experimente und Quasi-Experimente in der Arbeitsmarktökonomik“ (Campus Erlangen): Details
  • Winter 2019/20: Bachelorseminar „Herausforderungen der Wissensgesellschaft“: Details
  • Winter 2019/20:  Master’s course „Panel- and Evaluation Methods“