Hi,

My advisor told me to look into and work out a fitting research design for my Master Thesis. I'm writing this about the effect of the corona pandemic on the sale of phishing tools on the dark web.

I'm going to analyze data from before the Corona-pandemic (to understand before the situation before the pandemic) and data after the initial beginning of the Corona-pandemic.

Can anyone give me any advice on a fitting research design? I was thinking about a retrospective study, however I don't think that is that common in these type of studies. Or the emperical cycle?

Thanks!