Academic work

We are happy to supervise both Bachelor’s and Master’s theses focusing on Empirical Economic Research.

General requirements for registering a thesis
Information on the registration requirements and criteria for theses can be found on the website of the Academic Office Socioeconomics.

Topics
Generally, no specific topics are prescribed. Students should submit their own proposals. As a rule, topics are based on the research priorities of the Professorship or one of the lectures taught by the Professorship. Other interesting topics may also be proposed.

Requirements set by the Professorship
Successful completion of at least one course (seminar or lecture) taught by the Professorship.

Applications
Please present your proposed topic briefly (<300 words) in the form of an abstract. Please explain your personal motivation for the research question and how it relates to (recent) academic articles. Please send the abstract and a proof of your academic achievements  (Transcript of Records) to Ms Leinonen.

Guidelines from the Professorship on writing final theses
Guidelines from the Professorship on writing Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, including assessment criteria, can be found in the PDF document (only in German).

For seminar papers and assignments produced as part of the courses taught by Professor Fritsche and his research associates the formal requirements communicated to students in those courses apply in all cases. The Professorship's guidelines for writing assignments and preparing presentations, including assessment criteria, can be found in the PDF document (in German).

• Formatting title pages for seminar papers and assignments (examples).
• Citing correctly using the Harvard method (authored by J. Bahr and M. Frackmann).

The Interdisciplinary Foundation Course introduces students to academic work. You will learn, amongst other things, how to give a presentation, organise information and analyse it critically.

With this aim, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has produced practical instructional videos and a leaflet entitled 'Write your best term paper in economics and business administration'.

These videos were produced as part of the YES! – Young Economic Summit project.
YES! is a joint project of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Joachim Herz Foundation.

You can find academic journals, working papers and conferences in business administration and economics on the EconBiz specialist portal.

Data is collected almost everywhere and is regarded as a vital asset and basis for decision-making in politics and business. However, drawing meaningful insights from the highly complex datasets that have already been collected is not as straightforward as it might seem. Students of socioeconomics at the University of Hamburg have the opportunity to gain key knowledge in the field of data science through the course 'Data Science for Socioeconomists’. For this purpose, Professor Fritsche, Lisa Marie Wegner and Victoria Hünewaldt have devised a programme that enables students to work through the topics at their own pace and via accompanying exercises, whilst learning to code from scratch. The project received funding in two rounds as part of the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab. The aim: to introduce students to the subject of data science using real-life examples and at their own pace, thereby laying the foundations for their future professional development. In this interview, Lisa Marie Wegner presents the project.