Application for Bachelor's and Master's Theses:
Prof. Dr. Roland Füss is happy to supervise your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis in the
research fields of Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Economics, Real
Estate Securitization, Risk Management as well as Arts and Economics. Applicants should have attended and completed one of the
various courses of the chair with a very good grade in the past.
You can either apply for an open topic or suggest your own topic by writing a short proposal. To propose your own topic, you should
use this proposal template
which is based on Frauendorfer (2018) as well as Faff (2015). Moreover,
you should send us your current CV and your latest grade transcript.
This allows us to get a good understanding of your areas of interest. We
will then discuss the possibility of writing a thesis on your proposed
topic in person or via phone.
We expect you to aim for a
high-quality thesis. The objective should be that your thesis is similar
to a peer-reviewed article in an academic finance or economics journal.
To obtain a good grade, your thesis should include a well-grounded
empirical or qualitative analysis that delivers a novel contribution to
existing finance or economics literature. For empirical topics, you
should be familiar with a statistical software package like STATA,
MATLAB, R, or Python. Excel and SPSS is not sufficient. Furthermore,
your thesis should be written in LaTeX (preferred) or in Word. It is
also important that you use a literature manager to cite in your thesis
(Mendeley, BibTeX for Mac or JabRef).
In preparation for your thesis, please also have a look at the “Thesis and Seminar Paper Guidelines” of the chair.