Staat und Markt, Lecture and Exercise
The course "Staat und Markt" examines the role of the state in the economy. First, the importance of state intervention in the economy in terms of size is discussed. Subsequently, we analyse the various reasons for state intervention (e.g. the existence of public goods, external effects, natural monopolies, incomplete information, etc.). In addition to these allocation policy interventions, distribution policy goals and instruments are also analysed. Distortions caused by state interventions (such as tariffs and taxes) will be examined more closely. Finally, the course deals with concepts of behavioural economics that are relevant for state interventions.
Further information coming soon.
Finanzwissenschaftliche Steuerlehre, Lecture and Exercise
The course gives an introduction into the field of taxation from a public economics perspective and then deals with different concepts of taxation, including income taxation, consumption taxation and corporate taxation. The possible use of taxes as an incentive device is discussed in the last part of the course.
The next lecture will take place in summer term 2026.
Experimenting Economics: Seminar in Public Economics
The aim of the course is to gain your own initial experience in generating and analysing data. In small groups, you will conduct one experiment each and use it to analyse relevant economic questions. The experiments can be field, laboratory, lecture hall or survey experiments. In the group, you will brainstorm ideas that you can test in experiments. Subsequently, you will develop and implement your own experimental design with our support. To analyse the data, you will select and apply suitable empirical methods. After evaluating the collected data, you will produce an individual seminar paper.
The next seminar will take place in summer term 2026.
Here you can find general information regarding writing a thesis at our chair. we encourage you to do an empirical study., if you already have prior knowledge in using statistical software (e.g., Stata), Supervision of a literature-based bachelor's thesis is also possible.
If you are writing your thesis at our chair, please read the following documents. Afterwards, please write us an e-mail: fiwi@uni-hohenheim.de.
General Information Bachelor thesis (German)
Information on the Consequences of Plagiarism and the Use of Generative AI Systems