A List of Topics for the Final Essay.

Introduction to Economics
1. Influencing consumer preferences as a mean of public policy making (health
or environmental problems tackled through changing consumer preferences)
2. Interdependence of Taxation efficiency and elasticity of supply (for example
A Labor market application.)
3. Floor pricing policies a protective measure of economic efficiency or a
mechanism of market distortion. A theoretical approach.
4. Welfare economics measuring welfare, is consumer surplus the right and
the only measure of welfare?
5. International Trade influence on welfare.
6. International trade influence on employment and wage level.
7. Why countries engage in international trade?
8. Sector analyses construction sector, banking sector, insurance
sector, education private sector, telecommunication, energy sector,
health sector. The sectorial analyses could focus on how the market
structure affect the economic outcome of a sector, firm competition and
profits, innovation and investment in such sector (if there is profit margin the
sector grows for example, monopolistic competition examples).
9. Pricing for certain sectors how pricing reflects the market structure
(advertising, sales and profits in a monopolistic market).
10.Sectorial performance analyses economic output, employment, number of
firms, growth or construction of the sector (for example construction sector
performance)
11.What are cartels? The need for market regulating in non-perfect market
structures, a theoretical approach.
12.Productivity and economic growth, what are some policy variables in support
of economic growth theoretical/empirical approach.
13.The economics of information. A theoretical approach. ( One can develop an
essay on information in reducing market asymmetry or economics of internet
and new technologies of communication like a positive externality)
14.Why there is poverty and Income inequality distribution Theoretical
approach.
15.Is there an influence of the human capital (education and skills) on the real
wage?
16.Why we observe labour market discrimination phenomena?
(Theoretical/empirical approach).
17.Unemployment and Inflation relation with Economic Growth
18.Dynamics of Albanian public debt and its expected influence on
macroeconomic situation
19.Public investment and economic growth
20.
Foreign trade and foreign direct investment influence on the
Albanian economy.
21.Tax Policy Flat vs. progressive tax
Other topics you could consider (more of a micro economic nature)
1. Measuring Utility - a review of theory and empirical research.

2. Strategies to influence consumers behavior and increase the demand for

Albanian summer tourism in south areas.
3. Factors affecting households allocation of capital into savings and
investments.
4. Information asymmetry in human resource management A literature review.
5. Firms efficiency and technological innovation. Computers and internet
influence on productivity.
6. Does taxation policies affect foreign investments? A case study for Albanian
new changes of taxation system.
7. Youth employment are taxation and minimum wage laws affecting youth
employment?
8. Youth labor market in Albania has massivization of higher education
improved youth employment?
9. Banking Sector in Albania Is it a competitive market?
10.The Insurance Market Structure in Albania data on firms and prices.
11.Development of Private Higher Education in Albania an externality or public
sector failure?