Themenvorschläge Lehrstuhl Kosfeld

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1 Themenvorschläge Lehrstuhl Kosfeld Wintersemester 2018/19 Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main 1

2 Genereller Ablauf der Themenvergabe Die folgenden Seiten enthalten Themenvorschläge der möglichen Betreuer im WS18/19. Wenn Sie über QIS einen Platz am Lehrstuhl Prof. Kosfeld erhalten haben, schreiben Sie bitte innerhalb von 7 Tagen eine an poensgen@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de, mit: 1. Anmeldungsbestätigung 2. Notenauszug 3. Tabellarischer Lebenslauf 4. 3 präferierte Themen Auch über eigene Themenvorschläge freuen wir uns immer! Wenn Sie einen eigenen Vorschlag haben, skizzieren Sie bitte auf 1-2 Seiten das Thema und eine möglichst präzise Forschungsfrage. Nennen Sie etwa 5 Veröffentlichungen, die Sie zur Beantwortung heranziehen würden. (Diese Literaturhinweise sollen in erster Linie demonstrieren, dass sich zu dem Thema überhaupt geeignete Literatur finden lässt eine genauere Auswahl kann dann später zusammen mit dem Betreuer erarbeitet werden.) Bei Fragen können Sie sich gerne an herrn Poensgen wenden. 2

3 Stefan Pasch Digitalization and HR: Job Search Engines & Review Sites Digitalization affects job search and the hiring process Millions of job seekers use internet platforms for their job search Employees have the opportunity to rate their employer on review sites How reliable are these publicly available data on review sites? Do these platforms improve the matching between workers and firms? Empirical work and literature review possible Popadak. (2013). A Corporate Culture Channel: How Increased Shareholder Governance Reduces Firm Value. SSRN Working Paper Stevenson. (2008). The Internet and Job Search. NBER Working Paper, Kuhn and Mansour. (2013). Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?. The Economic Journal

4 Maíra Sontag González The Behavioral Economics of Children Die Verhaltensökonomie hat eine Vielzahl an Anomalien im menschlichen Entscheidungsverhalten festgestellt und untersucht: endowment effect, loss aversion, narrow bracketing Dies wird in der Regel anhand erwachsener Subjekte untersucht. Sehr viel weniger ist darüber bekannt, ob Kinder im gleichen Maße diesen cognitive biases unterliegen, und wie sie sich im Laufe des Lebens entwickeln. Ziel dieser Arbeit wäre es, den hierzu Stand der Forschung zu ermitteln und zusammenzufassen. Literatur Folgt / in Absprache mit der Betreuerin! 4

5 Jan Luksic make sure to get in touch after getting your adviser assigned and send suggestions of three possible titles for your thesis. We will then determine your exact topic and title during the first meeting Which Germans Hide Wealth in Panama? Occupational dispersion and media reports Panamanomics: Off-Shore Tax Avoidance and Evasion Historical development or present empirical evidence Data and neat summary slides available at Gabriel Zucman s website: Alstadaeter, Johannesen, Zucman (2017): Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality Gruber (2010): Public Finance and Public Policy, textbook (general reference) Zucman (2014): Taxing Across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits Zucman & Johannesen (2014): The End of Bank Secrecy Zucman (2015): The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens Clausing (2009): Multinational Firm Tax Avoidance and Tax Policy 5

6 Jan Luksic make sure to get in touch after getting your adviser assigned and send suggestions of three possible titles for your thesis. We will then determine your exact topic and title during the first meeting German Local Business Taxes and the Political Setting Overview of the changes in local business taxes (Gewerbesteuer) vs. the changes in the relevant political setting (electoral outcomes, ruling political parties at the municipal and the state levels, local public good provision) Subnational Taxation (and Fiscal Federalism) across Countries: Examples of using subnational taxation (and types thereof) in the 20 th century; reforms across (OECD? EU?) countries in the last 20 years; relationship to fiscal federalism (expenditure side) Empirical evidence of the present use of subnational taxation across countries (which types, to what extent, at which subnational level?), Gruber (2010): Public Finance and Public Policy, textbook (general reference) Bird (1999): Rethinking Subnational Taxes: A New Look at Tax Assignment, IMF WP Bird (2010): Subnational Taxation in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature, The World Bank WP Oates (2005): Toward a Second-Generation Theory of Fiscal Federalism (and the relevant references) 6

7 Jan Luksic make sure to get in touch after getting your adviser assigned and send suggestions of three possible titles for your thesis. We will then determine your exact topic and title during the first meeting Universal Basic Income: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers Literature review and empirical evidence: Historical examples of unconditional cash transfers Gruber (2010): Public Finance and Public Policy, textbook (general reference) Bastagli et al. (2016): Cash transfers: what does the evidence say? A rigorous review of impacts and the role of design and implementation features Haushofer & Shapiro (2013): Household response to income changes: Evidence from an unconditional cash transfer program in Kenya Jones & Marinescu (2018): The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Marinescu (2018): No Strings Attached: The Behavioral Effects of U.S. Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs Van Parijs (2001): What s Wrong with a Free Lunch? 7