Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Auflistung Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät nach Autor "Heidhues, Paul"
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Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Learning
Matzke, Christina (2009-07-27)The dissertation deals with both a model in which agents with limited information conform to a learning rule, as well as boundedly rational consumers who follow simple rules of thumb. The first case is treated within a ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Grunewald, Andreas (2013-09-27)This dissertation tackles three questions theoretically and empirically. The first chapter studies how non-binding default options influence the behavior of consumers. We argue that default options arise in an inherently ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Abeler, Johannes (2008)<p>This dissertation aims at continuing and expanding three lines of research prominent in behavioral economics today. The first chapter deals with the role of reciprocity in labor contracts and explores which factors ... -
Essays in Behavioral Public Economics
Marklein, Felix (2009-02-20)This dissertation aims at the identification of systematic behavioral biases that are relevant in the context of economic policy. In total, the dissertation consists of four chapters. In each chapter, we empirically analyze ... -
Essays in Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics
Herweg, Fabian (2009-11-17)Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ... -
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 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 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 Optimal Contracts and Renegotiation
Ohlendorf, Susanne (2009-09-11)Contract theory studies the incentives and contractual outcomes in economic interactions, and how they are influenced by given institutions and information structures. On an abstract level, a contractual relationship is ... -
Essays on Organization and Incentives in R&D and on Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets
Goldfayn, Ekaterina (2008)<p>This dissertation covers two distinct topics. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 investigate a model with a principal and two agents, where the hidden action of agents is a source of moral hazard problem. It is shown that competition ... -
Essays on the Effects of Information on Incentives and on People’s Awareness and Assessment of Biases
Ludwig, Sandra (2007)The first two essays deal with the interaction between intermediate information and incentives when information asymmetries are present. While in the first essay, individuals’ types can be private information, in the second ... -
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 ... -
Information and Incentives in Organizations
Nafziger, Julia (2007)This thesis asks about the value of information for providing incentives in principal agent models with hidden action and limited liability. The classical literature deals with information in the form of signals that the ... -
On Avoidance and Neglect as Barriers to Informed Decision-Making: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
Fels, Markus Peter (2014-08-07)The thesis comprises three essays on the reasons for and consequences of poorly-informed decision-making.<br /> Chapter 1 investigates active avoidance of information as a source of uninformed decision-making. Next to ... -
Social Preferences and Incentives in the Workplace
Altmann, Steffen (2009-08-12)Most economic exchanges are not based on fully contingent, explicit contracts, but rather rely on informal agreements that specify the contracting parties' obligations only imprecisely. In the labor market, contractual ... -
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wagner, Christoph (2013-04-02)This thesis consists of three chapters each considering a specific part of firm activity.<br /> Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...