E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Moldovanu, Benny"
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Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games: Towards a General Perspective
Lauermann, Stephan (2007)"<i>Nature</i> makes no jumps," according to a famous saying - but what about economies? Is <i>economic</i> welfare continuous in the size of the frictions of trading and do the welfare theorems hold approximately when ... -
Essays in Collective Decision-Making
Rachidi, Tobias (2023-08-29)Group decisions are ubiquitous in democratic societies. They range from general elections, and referenda to voting inside various organizations such as political institutions, and corporate boards. The present dissertation ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Kleiner, Andreas (2016-07-19)This thesis consists of five chapters on topics in mechanism design and voting.<br /> In Chapter 1, we study a committee deciding collectively whether to accept a given proposal or to maintain the status quo. Committee ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Schickner, Benjamin (2017-02-21)This thesis consists of three chapters.<br /> The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Winkelmann, Justus Hans (2019-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The common theme of all chapters is the analysis of collective decision problems in which efficient decisions depend on information that is ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Kreutzkamp, Sophie Alexandra (2024-02-29)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory and statistics. The first chapter contributes to the literature on information economics. It examines strategic information transmission in ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Luxen, Christina Veronika (2020-11-23)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The first chapter examines how pre-election polls affect the election outcome through the voters’ participation decision and studies the ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Kattwinkel, Deniz (2021-09-21)This thesis consists of three self-contained papers: Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency, Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design, and Allocation with Correlated Information: Too ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Preusser, Justus Matthias (2024-02-02)This thesis consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. The first two essays concern allocation problems with correlated information and without transfers. The third essay is on the topic of information in dynamic ... -
Essays in Theoretical Microeconomics
Lahr, Patrick (2024-02-02)This thesis comprises three self-contained essays dealing with the communication and use of information between strategic players. In Chapters 1 and 3, I follow the mechanisms design paradigm, assuming that a player (referred ... -
Essays on Dynamic Mechanism Design
Mierendorff, Konrad (2010-07-07)We consider the allocation of one or several units of a good in a dynamic environment. The time horizon is finite and in each period, a random number of potential buyers arrives. In Chapter 1, we study revenue maximization ... -
Essays on Dynamic Sales and Matching Mechanisms
Herbst, Holger (2016-10-20)This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in dynamic mechanism design and dynamic optimization.<br /> The first chapter studies optimal contract design by a firm which faces consumers who know how important the good ... -
Essays on Information Disclosure in Auctions and Contests
Rieck, Thomas (2011-05-06)In strategic decision making, the agents' decisions depend crucially on the information they have. Less information means more uncertainty about the other agents' possible behavior, making strategic decisions more complex. ... -
Essays on Market Microstructure in Finance and Health
Schilling, Linda Marlene (2019-11-26)The first part of this dissertation studies financial stability of maturity transforming institutions (banks) under variations of capital structure. As banks are financed by more uninsured deposits as opposed to equity, a ... -
Essays on Matching Markets
Westkamp, Alexander (2009-08-12)The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.<br /> The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ... -
Essays on Mechanism Design without Transfers
Niemeyer, Axel (2023-06-29)This thesis comprises four self-contained essays on mechanism design without transfers. Chapters 1 and 2 characterize ex post and posterior implementation in collective decision problems with interdependent values. Chapters ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Strack, Philipp (2013-07-17)This thesis consists of five chapters. The first three chapters form an entity and deal with stochastic contest models. The fourth chapter analyzes a problem of strategic experimentation with private payoffs. In the final ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Szech, Nora (2010-09-21)The five essays in this thesis study game-theoretic auction models and their application to economic theory. <br /> Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Drexl, Moritz (2014-10-30)This thesis covers two main areas of microeconomic theory. The first three chapters are contributions to the theory of mechanism design and the last two chapters contribute to the literature on general equilibrium in markets ... -
Four Essays in Auction Theory and Contest Theory
Knyazev, Dmitriy (2018-07-06)This thesis consists of four essays that belong to the literature on the theory of auctions and the theory of contests. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are devoted to the research on auctions and study the role of symmetry in ...