B.A. Thesis
Instructions for a B. A. dissertation here also lots of advice on academic writing by Tobias Klein.
B.A. // M.A. Thesis
My area of work is Market Design. I study bilateral markets and their applications, such as School Admission, College Admissions, and organ donation. As shown here, I have done theoretical and empirical analysis in this area. You can also find a summary of what is going on in this recent Conference of Prof. Alvin Roth at the EAA meetings: http://events7.mediasite.com/ and from Parag Pathak on Designing theories for the real world, also from the EAA website:
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/parag-pathak-school-choice-john-bates-clark-medal-interview-2018
There are examples of analysis of European institutions and proposals of hot topics (perhaps some too technical for a TFG/TFM) here:
https://www.aeaweb.org/forum/279/what-are-some-dissertation-worthy-topics-in-market-design
Techniques for the design of markets are easy to acquire. You can start by enrolling in my market design course, but even if you don't, you can do exciting stuff. Gale and Shapley (1962) gave the basis for analyzing these markets considered a model when two sets of agents, for example, workers and firms, must be matched. If a worker or firm prefers to be unmatched by a worker-firm pair that prefers to be matched together better than with their current partners, the allocation is not stable. Gale and Shapley had the intuition that stability is a fundamental concept in these markets and presented a method to calculate them. This method is known as the Gale and Shapley algorithm.
Alvin Roth (1984) highlighted the empirical relevance of this discovery; in particular, the algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley was equivalent to that used for assigning medical residents to hospitals in the National Resident Matching Program (NMRP) in the United States. The reform of the school admission systems of multiple school districts and the allocation of kidneys from living donors are other examples of the application of Market Design. There are many more applications, and their number increases every day. You might start by looking at:
If you have got this far and would like to do your B.A. or Master Thesis on a topic related to Market Design, think of a project and send me a detailed proposal.
For example, in 2021, I advised TFGs on the following topics:
Volunteer motivation in food banks.
Airbnb regulation: impact in BCN.
Course allocation procedures at UC3M.
And TFMs on:
The market for water in Chile.