E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Hellwig, Martin F."
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Contracting in the Presence of Uncertainty
Lang, Matthias (2012-08-24)This thesis concerns the enforcement of contracts in the presence of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is exogenously given and the agents cannot influence its existence. Frequently, however, there is strategic uncertainty ... -
A contribution to the determinants of total factor productivity growth
Schiffbauer, Marc (2008)Why do some countries grow and others stagnate? The Science magazine considers this question as one of the 125 "most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today'' (Science magazine (2005)). Indeed, the successful ... -
Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomics and Political Economy
Sorge, Marco M. (2012-01-04)This dissertation attempts in four essays to contribute to economic research in two separate fields, and is therefore divided into two self-contained parts.<br /> Part I (Dynamic Macroeconomics) is rooted in the modern ... -
Essays in Microeconomics
Weinschenk, Philipp (2009-11-17)This thesis contains five papers. Two belong to the field of industrial organization. Both are on innovation and the investment in it. The paper “Persistence of Monopoly and Research Specialization” takes a new look at ... -
Essays in Monetary Theory
Kurka, Stephan Florian (2012-05-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in monetary theory. Each period, agents trade in a day and in a night market. The night market is a standard Walrasian market. In the day market agents are anonymous which prevents ... -
Essays in Public Economics
Hansen, Emanuel (2014-11-26)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first chapter studies political competition with endogenously formed political parties. Party formation allows policy-motivated citizens to coordinate their political ... -
Essays in Public Economics
Aigner, Rafael Christian (2014-05-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The first chapter addresses the question how taxes in the financial sector affect the real economy. One set of results concerns the tax burden: Given a fixed public budget ... -
Essays in Public Finance
Scherf, Robert (2019-07-23)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on public finance, that is, on the study of government revenue and expenditure. Taxation and public spending reflect society's values, priorities, as well as its ... -
Essays on Financial Stability
Schempp, Paul (2015-03-20)This thesis consists of three chapters that analyze the stability of financial institutions. The focus lies on self-fulfilling liquidity crises that are associated with maturity transformation conducted by financial ... -
Essays on Financial Stability
Luck, Stephan (2016-02-01)This thesis examines self-fulfilling liquidity crises that are associated with maturity and liquidity transformation conducted by financial intermediaries such as banks. It consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, ... -
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
Kranz, Sebastian (2008)<p>This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters. <br /> Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ... -
Essays on Parental Leave, Global Disinflation and Non-Renewable Resources
Schwerhoff, Gregor (2012-03-28)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. In chapter 1 the focus is on the allocation of parental leave between spouses. We modify a model of collective rationality developed by Pierre-André Chiappori and coauthors ... -
Five Essays on Bank Regulation
Behn, Markus (2015-01-06)The story of the financial crisis of 2007-08 is also a story of bank regulation. Commentators from academia and policy institutions have identified an inappropriate regulation of banks and capital markets as one of the ... -
What Drives Mineral Commodity Markets in the Long Run?
Stürmer, Martin (2013-08-20)This thesis analyzes the long-run development of mineral commodity markets both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.<br /> The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...