Economics Dissertation Topics
Microeconomics
- To what extent does the concentration in the industry determine individual firm profitability?
- How does competition in the market determine corporate strategies for growth?
- Impact of the covid pandemic on the market entry modes practised by corporations.
- How do models of funding of non-profit organisations affect their sustainability?
- Privatization of Public Enterprises and its implications on economic policy and development
- Fraud and Abuse in Non-profit Organizations
- Antitrust Practices and Market Power in the UK
- Effect of antitrust regulations on the performance of the IT sphere in the UK
- Antitrust regulation of horizontal mergers
- Challenges for the industry from digitalisation
- How changes in industrial structure affected economic growth in China?
- How can Brexit change industrial policies in the UK?
- Effect of covid on the entertainment industry
- Perspectives of the alternative energy industry over the world
- Contribution of smart materials to the development of the construction industry
- Transformation of consumer tastes over the last two decades
- How do local culture and mentality affect entrepreneurial behaviour and inclination to running a business?
- How does the behaviour of single-person households differ from the behaviour of couple-based households?
- Product life cycle in the era of digitalisation
- Influence of IT on product development
- Crowd funding as a driver of product development
- How did Covid-19 affect economic inequality?
- Dynamics of the Gini index as an indicator of income distribution
- Forces behind income inequality in the UK
- Is economic equilibrium attainable in the modern world?
- How will equilibrium change after the covid-19 pandemic
- The effect of trade liberalisation on general economic equilibrium
- Impact of the informal sector of the economy on welfare
- Potential consequences of the unconditional income introduction
- Effect of covid-19 on income distribution in the UK
- Collective decision-making in social networks
- Collective decision making on mergers and acquisitions
- Analysis of decision making on tourism destinations
- How uncertainty affects decision making?
- Career perspectives in the knowledge economy
- The effect of covid on uncertainty in a particular market
- Job search from the perspective of behavioural economics
- The role of emotions in personal investing strategies
- What drives customers to change mobile operators?
Macroeconomics
- How do demand and supply control market forces in the UK?
- Should the neoclassical growth model be revised in conditions of the modern world?
- How does covid affect aggregate spending in the UK?
- Do interest rates affect consumption in the UK?
- Does consumption depend on the country’s currency exchange rate?
- What industries were hit by covid most of all in terms of production?
- Do consumer prices move synchronously in EU countries under the regime of inflation targeting?
- What counter-cyclical measures can help to mitigate economic turmoil?
- How do oil prices affect business activities in oil importing and oil-exporting countries?
- How do interest rates affect investment activities?
- Analysis of money supply in developing and developed economies
- Is interest rates an effective instrument of inflation control in developing countries?
- Forward Guidance as an Instrument of Monetary Policy: Experiences and Prospects
- Does money supply influence rates of economic growth?
- Is austerity an appropriate instrument of reducing national debt?
- Influence of political situation on macroeconomic regulation in the UK.
- How do macroeconomic policies affect capital structure of firms?
- How do recommendations of international organisations (WB, WTO, IMF) affect macroeconomic policies of developing countries?
- The use of big data in behavioural economics at the macrolevel
- Public policy formulation through the lens of behavioural economics
- How to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of behavioural macroeconomics?
International Economy
- International trade as a factor of growth of developing economies
- The effect of IT on restructuring international trade
- How IT progress changed international value chains
- How did covid affect international business activities?
- The most prospective developing markets for international business
- Tendencies in international factor movements over the last decade
- Are there preconditions for creating new currency unions anywhere in the world?
- Latest tendencies in international finance: liberalisation or restrictions?
- Is the current global financial system viable?
- The most prospective regional trade unions
- What are the most attractive destinations for FDI right now?
- The impact of FDI on economic growth in developing countries
- How will the inauguration of Joe Biden change the US-China relations?
- Macroeconomic drivers of local armed conflicts
- Comparison of macroeconomic structure of the US and China
- The impact of globalisation on poverty
- Does IT affect poverty in the global scale?
- How does globalisation influence corruption in the global scale?
Financial Economics
- Reaction of financial markets to covid-19
- How mutual funds change their risk-taking strategies depending on different incentives
- How did financial markets react to the Biden win?
- How FinTech companies affect the sphere of financial services
- The latest accomplishments in the sphere of financial engineering
- How IT changes competition in the sphere of financial services
- Has covid changed corporate governance practices in the UK?
- The effect of corporate governance procedures on capital structure in developing countries
- Does IT progress influence companies’ investment in R&D?
- Behavioural finance and its influence on investing decisions
- Is behavioural finance able to completely explain investment decisions?
- How personal characteristics of an investor explain their investment decisions
- Patterns in spending of single-person households and couple households
- Has covid changed inclination to saving among households?
- The role of mediators in the mortgage market
Labour and Demographic Economics
- Economic effects of changes in demographic structure
- The relationship between the number of children and family wellbeing in developing countries
- Does the child-free movement have a real impact on demographic situation in the UK?
- Does Affirmative Action Reduce Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market? Recent Evidence for Developing Countries
- Has covid changed the demand for labour in the EU?
- Digitalisation and changes in labour market
- The influence of marital status on income
- How does marital status impacts labour force structure?
- What are the reasons behind regional wage inequality in the EU.
- Influence of uberisation on labour force structure.
- The demand for refugee labour force in the EU.
- Benefits and disadvantages of being self-employed
- Strategic HR management and trade unions
- A critical analysis of collective bargaining in the context of the UK
- Do all participants of the single market have the same collective bargaining conditions?
- The influence of regional disparity of income on labour mobility
- How has covid changed unemployment patterns in the UK?
- What is the contribution of immigrant workers to GDP of the UK?
- Differences in labour standards between top-5 European football leagues
- An overview of labour laws in the tourist sector across EU countries
- UK labour regulations: drawbacks to be amended in the future
Development Economics and Innovation
- What are the most relevant indicators of economic development?
- The influence of population growth on developing economies: case study of India.
- Exploring the relationship between migration and economic development
- How do land regulations affect the pace of development in developing countries?
- Ecovillages: regulation and development prospects
- What are the residential location preferences of the new generation of millennials?
- Instruments of funding innovations
- Issues of protecting intellectual property rights of start-ups
- Impact of technological change on productivity in the manufacturing industry
- How does trade openness affects aggregate productivity of the economy? On the sample of Australia
- What affects productivity in the long run?
- The impact of structural change on productivity in developing economies
- Economic development in Russia: effects of privatisation
- Economic implications of climate change in developing countries
- Economy wide effect of free trade agreements: the case of developing countries
Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Ecological Economics
- The effect of technology on productivity of the agricultural sector in developing countries.
- How do labour force flows affect agricultural sector performance in an emerging economy?
- Managing livestock farm as a business: issues and benefits
- Sustainable management practices in fish industry
- Benefits and methods of energy conservation
- Influence of renewable energy sources: economic, social and environmental aspects
- Management of non-renewable sources in the context of Germany.
- How does depletion of resources affect the UK economy?
- Methods of monitoring and control of non-renewable resources
- What is the potential of the solar energy in the world market of energy?
- Opportunities, benefits and drawbacks of alternative energy sources
- What are the main sources of risk in the sphere of renewable energy?
- Water management and conservation policies: A comparative study of the UK and Malaysia.
- The influence of climate policies on economic development.
- How can innovations contribute to the development of an eco-friendly economy?
