https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/E_FIN_TQRM15The thesis is an important part of your academic training where all the previous elements come together: knowledge, skills, attitude, and creativity. The thesis gives you the opportunity to engage in your own independent academic research and to give your distinctive `signature’ of what you are up to in a relatively short period of time. This can be a valuable signal towards the labor market.You are going to define your own research project and subsequently go through all necessary steps like: gathering literature, getting a sharp research question, gathering and manipulating data, choosing the right empirical methodology and getting results, interpreting them, doing robustness checks and writing down everything crisply and concisely, and being able to communicate effectively about your results.You will work on your own and will be supervised by one of the members of the department of Finance. You will have regular meetings with your supervisor.Your thesis will be assessed by your supervisor and a second reader.Academic papers from the top academic finance journals, dependent onyour research question.Students should sign up in time according to the manual, which is available on Canvas.You can write your thesis in two periods: either in Spring or in Fall.At least three core courses and the Research Project should be completedsuccessfully.