– Empirical and literature seminar -
(6CP, MoM/MIEPP)
The seminar will consider different topics that relate to household saving, portfolio behavior, and investment choices. More specially, we examine households’ financial decision-making and the role of financial literacy, advice and regulation, of social interactions, trust, and perceived knowledge, and discuss the complexity of improving households’ financial capability.
Organization of the seminar:
The seminar is open to Master students from the MoM and the MIEPP. The seminar will be group work. Each group will have 3 members. You will be asked to hand in a seminar paper and to give a group presentation that will focus on one specific aspect of your paper. There is a page limit of 20 pages.
Application:
As there are still seats available, the new deadline for applications is August 30, 2015!
Please send your application form together with a current transcript of records, a short letter of motivation (max. 2 pages), and your three favorite topics ranked by preference to milena.neubert@uni-mainz.de. (this holds for MoM as well as MIEPP students). The application period starts on August 10 and ends on August 24, 2015. The number of seminar participants is capped at 21. You will be notified of admission until August 28, 2015. To withdraw from the seminar, please send an email to milena.neubert@uni-mainz.de until September 2, 2015.
Important dates:
- Start of application period: August 10, 2015
- End of application period: August 24, 2015
- Notification of admission: August 28, 2015
- Withdrawal from seminar possible until: September 2, 2015
- Obligatory introductory session: October 7, 2015
- Deadline for handing-in the seminar paper: January 11, 2016
- Presentation session: January 27 2016, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, in room RW6
Topics:
- On risk attitudes in a social context (literature review)
- Unraveling the stockholding puzzle (empirical analysis or literature review)
- Financial literacy and the crisis (empirical analysis or literature review)
- Perceived knowledge and financial behavior (empirical analysis or literature review)
- Who demands financial advice? (empirical analysis or literature review)
- Financial advice: Does it make a difference? (literature review)
- Improving financial capability: Between designing environments and changing minds (literature review)
More information on topics and literature can be found here: Masterseminar WS 2015/16