The Essentials of a Successful Dissertation on Economics
No matter your discipline as an economics, a successful dissertation requires little more than graph evidence and a strong, comprehensive and fallacy-free argument. The most important requirement to a successful Economics dissertation is a powerful and relevant thesis. Here are some dissertation topics (some of them were taken from Topics Base) for each of eight sub-disciplines of economics that should inspire your choice of a dissertation topic.
- Economic Geography
- How does a specific region support the lock-in thesis of cluster development?
- The contribution of international policy on the US’ economic landscape
- Why do industries cluster together in the same region? With reference to one industry.
- The role of immigration in regional economics.
- How will the role of traditional industries change in the future?
- Economic Sociology
- What is social capital? What is its role?
- How do family units affect firms?
- How will social media affect the economy in the long-run?
- How do universities or similar institutions act as entrepreneurs?
- How has the role of the family changed over time, from an economic point of view?
- Institutional Economics
- How does entrepreneurship change from country to country?
- What is the role of public schooling in a country’s entrepreneurship capacities?
- How different is the job cycle and requirements for an entrepreneur, manager, and investor?
- Microeconomics
- How true is the economies of scale model? Evidence from multiple case studies.
- How have new regulations affected an industry? How has the industry responded?
- Microeconomic approaches and solutions to problems in the energy market.
- What is a knowledge firm and how do their microeconomic properties differ from other firms?
- Macroeconomics
- Has the model rung true in the relationship between interest rates and consumption?
- How does oil affect consumption? Is there a consistent value by which change in oil prices affects change in consumption?
- How does inflation affect the profits of an individual firm? At what point does the neutrality of money shatter?
- Regional Development
- What is the role of technology in regional development? Where on Earth is the technology concentrated? How will it spread?
- What is the link between regional institutions and regional development?
- Employment Economics
- How have jobs been created or destroyed in the last decade? How will they be in the future?
- Is there a strong correlation between minimum wage and unemployment? How final are the theories?
- Financial Economics
- What are the determinants of corporate debt within a certain country?
- Compare and contrast the financial structure of two political entities.