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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 ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2023-02-14)In my dissertation, I analyze how policymakers can protect employees and consumers from being exploited by firms. In chapter 1, an employer undermines minimum wages by adding non-compete clauses to the workers' employment ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2024-02-19)This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters whose main objective lies in providing model-based explanations of and policy recommendations for "real-world" phenomena that attracted my attention throughout ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(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 Applied Microeconomics
(2021-01-08)The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-10-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2021-07-19)Two topics are covered in this dissertation. One topic is about individual's contribution decisions in social dilemmas situations (situations, when everyone is better off keeping their endowments for themselves but everybody ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-08-29)One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-11-25)This dissertation consists of four independent chapters, which all study determinants of human behavior. All chapters leverage insights from behavioral economics or methods from experimental economics. The unifying framework ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-09-05)Three essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay describes a detailed agent based model of disease transmission and its application to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The second provides methods for uncertainty ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-01-14)What determines human behavior? This seemingly simple question is at the core of economics and the social sciences more generally. Yet, it is one of the most difficult questions to answer for at least two reasons: First, ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-05-25)The first two chapters of this thesis are connected by an overarching question: Can we use the electricity price to incentivize electricity consumption when it is plentiful and electricity conservation when it is scarce? ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-08-26)One major goal of modern societies is to establish a cooperative and cohesive community. Though most people can agree on this goal, it is less clear how it can be achieved. To be able to make informed political changes ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-28)This thesis consists of four independent research papers. Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of consumer myopia on competition and firm behavior. In our model, firms repeatedly sell a primary good and a respective add-on. In ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-22)This thesis uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods combined with real-world data to explore whether and how we may (or may not) leverage insights from psychology and economics to design simple non-monetary ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-10-05)This cumulative dissertation examines 1) the extent of substantive representation in Europe, 2) whether misperceptions can explain anti-asylum seeker attitudes, and 3) attitudes toward inherited inequality. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-08-09)This dissertation explores the relationship between economic actions and relationships in three contexts: friendships in markets, customer relationships in auctions, and village communities during the 1930s Weimar Republic. ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-10-27)This thesis consists of three essays that study the distribution of individual preferences, how they shape social interactions and translate into collective outcomes, and how they interact with the decision environment to ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2024-03-28)This thesis comprises three chapters, each serving as an independent research paper. Collectively, they all revolve around exploring individual decision making, with particular emphasis on the role of expectations and ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management
(2010-03-24)A first wave of contributions to the field of psychology and economics mainly consisted of pointing out problems with traditional economic assumptions and articulating alternatives. By now, research has evolved to what ...
