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Essays on Heterogeneity and Non-Linearity in Panel Data and Time Series Models
(2016-12-22)
In recent years advances in data collection and storage allow us to observe and analyze many financial, economic or environmental processes with higher precision. This in turn reveals new features of the underlying processes ...
Informational externalities and strategic interaction
(2016-12-13)
This thesis studies the role of uncertainty and informational externalities in strategic interaction. In the presence of informational externalities, the incentives of strategic agents to invest in innovative and risky ...
Transparenz und Undurchsichtigkeit: Untersuchung über die Leistungsfähigkeit der Diskurstheorie zur Begründung strafrechtlicher Normen
(2016-11-25)
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die Diskurstheorie die praktische Autorität des Strafrechts begründen kann. Zunächst ist die These aufgestellt, dass strafrechtliche Normen ausschließlich und inhaltsunabhängig ...
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2016-12-21)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters which deal with macroeconomic topics that drew much attention in the years of financial and economic crisis since 2007.
Chapter 1 analyzes how the availability of ...
Chapter 1 analyzes how the availability of ...
Essays in Statistics
(2016-03-29)
This thesis is comprised of several contributions to the field of mathematical statistics, particularly with regards to computational issues of Bayesian statistics and functional data analysis.
The first two chapters ...
The first two chapters ...
Essays on Financial Stability
(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 in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2016-07-11)
This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head ...
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2016-04-18)
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied and theoretical econometrics. The first chapter presents a Lagrange Multiplier test for detecting shock triggered asymmetries in time series and investigates ...
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2016-05-12)
Behavioral economics has improved the understanding of economic phenomena by enriching the understanding of economic decision making with insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Rigorous empirical investigations ...
Essays on Information and Communication in Microeconomic Theory
(2016-06-21)
This dissertation studies the role of information in three different microeconomic environments and introduces for each an independent theoretical model.
In the first chapter, we consider a deliberation and voting ...
In the first chapter, we consider a deliberation and voting ...