Thesis Information

Finding Information

• Each year I supervise about 5 Bachelor or Master theses.
  Below you find some general information about how to find information in the field.
• Finding a policy questions ?
  • Euraktiv / Politco  (EU news – views of Commission and  stakeholders)
  • EUI Florence School of Regulation 
  • CERRE Centre on Regulation in Europe (market regulation, cross-sectoral aspects)
  • Bruegel (industrial policy / macro-aspects)
• Finding literature I: Next to the main economics journals, the following journals focus on energy economics in particular
  • Energy Economics, Energy Journal
  • Energy Policy, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy  (focus on policy)
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,  Resource and Energy Economics (focus on environmental / resource economics)
• Finding literature II: I recommend students to check some of the abstracts of recent conferences:
  • Mannheim Energy Conference (energy economics, including some legal / managerial aspects )
  • Toulouse Energy Conference (energy – environmental economics)
  • UCEI Berkeley Energy Conference (empirics – focus on US/Californian markets )
• I advise students to contact me with 1 or 2 one-page proposals containing motivation, research question and a proposed methodology.
• Possible topics include
  • Competition policy (vertical restraints, collusion, bundling)
  • Modeling investments (real options, flexibility in technologies)
  • Design of electricity and gas markets (market clearing rules, risk sharing)
  • Policy evaluation – Cost benefit analysis
  • Law and Economics (Economic discussion of a particular decision by ECJ, or new regulations)

Procedure

Thesis Proposal

Thesis Structure

Lay-out Guidelines

Timeline