After evaluating all registrations, the seminar seats are allocated according to the following criteria and priorities, which have been determined by the lecturers in advance:

Relevant degree program or specialization module
The seminar is assigned to your degree program or specialization module or is a compulsory course.

Number of credit points already earned

• The more credit points you have already acquired, the higher the probability (ceteris paribus) of obtaining a seminar seat.
• Core subjects or Fundamentals & Core Courses:
  You should have already successfully completed some courses from the modules Fundamentals and Core Courses.

Grades:
The better your grades in the prerequisite courses, the more likely you will be accepted into the desired seminar.

Alternative seminar preferences:
By indicating more than one desired seminar (ideally: 3 priorities), you may increase your chances of getting a seminar seat.

Further criteria:
For some seminars, the following criteria are also taken into account:

• If you have already had discussions with the lecturer and have shown an interest in taking part in the seminar, you can indicate this in the registration under remarks.
  The Dean of Studie's Office will contact the lecturer before the definitive assignment.
• Further, individual requirements according to the information in the course catalogue.

Supervisor: 
Prof. Fabian Schär

Admission requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics.

The seminar-specific participation requirements and assignment criteria for this seminar are:

• Course 52354 Smart Contracts and Decentralized Blockchain Applications (Master) must be successfully completed.
• LaTeX is required for all work.
• R and Solidity programming skills (taught in the Smart Contracts and Decentralized Blockchain Applications course) are a plus and essential for certain topics.

For the general prerequisites and allocation process, please see here.

Supervisor:

Prof. Alois Stutzer und Prof. Reiner Eichenberger (University of  Fribourg)

Admission requirements:

Completed bachelor's degree.

 The seminar-specific participation requirements and assignment criteria for this seminar are:

• 1st priority will be given to those students who attended the lecture 15965 Political Economics (formerly: "Econnomic Theory of Politics") at the Master's level.
• 2nd priority: those who took successfully "Public Choice and Public Economics" at the Bachelor's level.
• 3rd priority: those who attended only the compulsory course.

It is possible to propose own topics. Proposals should be addressed to the responsible teaching assistant after assignment to the seminar.

The seminar topics often involve the students' own econometric analysis. It is therefore highly recommended that students attend introductory courses in statistical software packages beforehand. However, no specific software is prescribed for an empirically oriented seminar paper. It is always possible to write papers without own empirical analysis.

For the general prerequisites and allocation process, please see here.

Supervisor: Prof. Beat Hintermann

Admission requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics.
In addition, course 12036 Econometrics must be passed successfully.

For the general prerequisites and allocation process, please see here.

Supervisor: Prof. Sabine Böckem

Admission requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics.

The seminar seats are allocated on the basis of the availability of seminar seats for the various master’s programs. The following criteria apply:

1. Number of credit points already acquired in the Master in Business and Technology (MBT), Master in Finance and Money (MFM) or in the major Finance, Controlling and Banking of the Master in Business and Economics (MBE),

2. Average grade of the courses in the Master MBT, MFM or in the major Finance, Controlling and Banking of the MBE.

For the general prerequisites and allocation process, please see here.

Supervisor: Dr. Jacqueline Henn / Prof. Dr. Paolo Vanini

Admission requirements:

Completed bachelor's degree in business and economics.

The seminar-specific participation requirements and assignment criteria for this seminar are:

• A minimum grade of 4.5 in course 12036 Econometrics.
• Number of courses and grades earned in the major Finance, Controlling and Banking.

For some seminar topics, knowledge of Matlab, Stata or R is necessary or must be acquired.

For the general terms of admittance please see here...

Supervisor:
Prof. Jeffrey Macher and Prof. Rolf Weder

This is an annual course for which a special application process applies. For more information see here.

Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Frank Christian Krysiak

Admission requirements:

For students in the Master program Business and Economics or Economics and Public Policy:
At least one of the following courses has been taken (or is taken in parallel):

• 14255 Environmental Economics (Krysiak)
• 29002 Electricity Markets (Weigt)
• 62655 Energy Economics (Weigt)
• 17691 International Trade, Resources and the Environment (Taylor)

MSD students without a bachelor degree in economics/business and without focus area in economics are supposed to have completed the "Complementary Knowledge in Economics" module (MSD 2017). MSD students with focus area in economics are required to have taken at least one of the courses mentioned above for students in the Master program Business and Economics.

The general prerequisites and allocation process can be found here...

Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Karsten Hadwich

Participation requirements:

Completed Bachelor's degree. Decisive for the seminar assignment:
The following courses must have been successfully attended:

• 10653 Product Management
• 10663 Strategic Service Management

In addition, participation in the kick-off event and the full-day presentation event is mandatory.

The general assignment criteria for the master seminars can be found here...