2023 - May skills - Thesis topics FINAL.pdf
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… in terms of research angle, method, and data. Regarding research strategies, focus, and interventions it includes, for example: - textual manipulation of messages - website, visuals, and tool design - communication channel (direct, via employer, …; online, offline, social media, …) and timing (life events) interventions - emotional triggers - design of default options and products - as well as big data approaches (data and text mining). Therefore, contact Dr. Thomas Post well in advance before … expectations? Supervisor: Thomas Post (t.post@maastrichtuniversity.nl) Short text: Starting Date: immediately Expectations about how future home prices might change have been found to be a major determinant for households’ decisions on, for example, buying or renting a home. What is rather unclear today is how households form those expectations in the first place, that is, how do they make up their mind on that issue? Do they just extrapolate past trends, think about the (macro-) economic … Economic Review, 105(5), 187-91. - Borenstein, S., & Davis, L. W. (2016). The distributional effects of US clean energy tax credits. Tax Policy and the Economy, 30(1), 191-234. Requirements: Statistical proficiency, using R or Stata. Title: Benchmark shopping behavior for global pension funds in alternative asset classes (i.e., private equity, hedge funds, real assets, private debt) Supervisor: Alexander Carlo (a.carlo@maastrichtuniversity.nl), Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok Short text: Maastricht …