tailieunhanh - Guidelines for Writing a Master’s Thesis

The study also analyses the lending structure which most likely has contributed to the rise in house prices. Such price rises exceeded the growth in income levels. The FSA contributes these developments to the deterioration in lending standards, which not only happened in the ., but also in the ., Ireland and Spain for instance. Such practices were originated by lenders -to some extent non-bank lenders- which took mortgage risks on individual households which could be classified as high risk borrowers. Sometimes mortgage brokers were capable to arrange deals for such borrowers and there were specialised subsidiaries. | Philipps-University - FB 02 - Macroeconomics - D-35032 Marburg Faculty of Business Administration and Economics Macroeconomics Professor Bernd Hayo Tel. 49 6421 28 23091 Fax 49 6421 28 23088 E-Mail hayo@ Address Universitaetsstrasse 24 35037 Marburg Germany Web http fb02 makro Marburg 6 June 2012 Guidelines for Writing a Master s Thesis I. Preparation for the Master s Thesis 1. Choice of Topic Topics can be chosen from all areas of Macroeconomics Political Economy Public Choice International Finance European Integration and Socio-Economics. Empirical research in other fields is also welcome. If you are interested in writing your Master s thesis in one of these areas please schedule an appointment with me preferably during my office hours and bring along one or more ideas and if possible a rough outline of your planned study. The Master s thesis is the crowning glory of your scientific education and should grow out of a high degree of interest in a topic. Consequently I expect that students should develop one or more ideas about the research areas they are interested in and formulate a research question. Only under exceptional circumstances I am willing to assign a topic. After making sure that your proposal is a suitable project for a Master s thesis the thesis topic can be registered with the Examination Office. 2. Issuance of the Topic Following the formalities of the curriculum the chair of the Examination Board determines the advisor issues the topic on behalf of the advisor and as a general rule chooses the second advisor. In order to avoid delays with respect to the preferred starting date the registration of the thesis the request for issuance of the topic must take place at least 2 weeks prior to the preferred starting date at the Examination Office. 3. Duration For the MSc Economics and Institutions the duration is scheduled to be 6 months for the MA Economic Change in the Arab Region it is 4 months for MA Europa .