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; Note: This course is oversubscribed and has a very long waitlist.

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
Pay transparency in the labor market
Teamwork in science
Compensating wage differentials in the labor market
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“