What is the best topic for a thesis study in Economics?

Question

I am a B.S Economics student and as a compliance we are going to make a thesis study. My course is concerned with the production of goods, the supply and demand of goods in the market, the household income/the per capita of each household, unemployment and other topics related to these. My course deals with quantitative problems. I would like to ask for any suggestion on what topic will iI deal with for my thesis study.

Answer 1

how about something related to international trade

Answer 2

As a former econ teacher, I always ask my advisees: what is your interest? If you focus on your interest then you are well-motivated. And motivation is 90% of completing your thesis. If you think you don't have an interest, then you haven't introspected enough. Start off with a very general topic - Development; International Trade; Exchange Rates. What are the tough econ questions that you have always wondered about? That should get you started. Once you have identified a broad topic you need to narrow it down. Narrowing it down means you need to read a lot on the subject. Pick up a good not-so-technical survey journal, such as Asian Pacific Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, etc. Or google it and look for good survey articles. Here you would need competent advice (from your adviser, who else?) as to what is doable or relevant to the science. For example: you think your interest is International Trade. You narrow it down to product safety and trade (because of these Chinese goods controversy). Then you get it down further to manufactured goods. Then US product safety standards for imported consumer goods. Finally you settle on a benefit-cost analysis of tightening up on safety standards for emerging market exports of toys to the US. This is still challenging, but I think doable for an undergraduate thesis.

Answer 3

Boy I could gather up all the napkins and McDonald's sacks I scribble on and give you a bunch of ideas. How about an analysis/critique of current estimates of changes in real income in recent decades? ie, lately its been fashionable for people to use cpi data or census data to claim that real wages or household income have done X in the past 30 years ... but do the enormous changes in the consumption mix in that time undermine those estimates? Are cpi numbers useful over the long term when people today are buying a lot of things that didn't even exist 20 years ago? How do you make sense of that?

Answer 4

Economics thesis!

Ahhhhhhhh..... "Thats me, running from you screaming."

Im so sorry you have to do that. I hated economics, it completely and totally damaged a large number of my brain cells... that and statistics.

Good luck love!