Bachelor seminar in Public Economics
5 Credit points
Bachelor seminar in the winter semester 2025/2026
The Department of Public Economics offers a Bachelor seminar on “Inequality of income, wealth, and tax burdens: Empirical findings and fiscal policy measures” in the winter semester 2025/2026.
Guidelines (PDF, 155 kB) for the formal design of seminar papers and theses.
Qualification Goals
Students should acquire basic skills in a selected field of economics with special emphasis on public economics. They should acquire basic methodological knowledge of scientific work by writing a term paper and further improve their communication skills by giving a presentation.
Content
Selected topics in the field of economics with emphasis on public economics.
Components and semester hours per week
Seminar 2 semester hours per week.
Frequency
In the summer semester/ winter semester.
Examination performence
Paper (10-30 pages) and presentation (15-45 minutes).
Calculation of the module grade
The partial examination in the term paper is given a weighting of 60% and the partial examination in the presentation is given a weighting of 40% in the module grade.