Available Topics
Our chair currently offers the following topics for Master’s theses:
- Output gap estimation for Germany using the method in Jarocinski and Lenza (2018) and comparison of results to other (official) estimates
- Output gap estimates for Germany: Comparing the HP filter with the newly proposed Hamilton filter
- A real-time assessment of the GDPplus methodology (Aruoba, S.B., F.X. Diebold, J. Nalewaik, F. Schorfheide, and D. Song, 2016) for Germany
- Measuring and explaining heterogeneity in macroeconomic density forecasts
Please contact Prof. Dr. Jonas Dovern to inquire whether there are other proposals for topics or to discuss own suggestions for thesis topics.
Potential topics should be related to the content of the Master courses „Multivariate Time Series Analysis” or “Bayesian Econometrics”.