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Essays in Behavioral Economics
Apenbrink, Christian Rudolf (2023-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in behavioral economics. Employing methods from microeconometrics and experimental economics, I test causal hypotheses with a focus on two applications: the role of ... -
Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization
Gamp, Tobias (2016-11-24)How do consumers make consumption decisions if the acquisition of product information is difficult? What determines their search behavior and ultimately their choices? In three essays I examine the way in which the answers ... -
Essays in Behavioral Microeconomic Theory
Klümper, Andreas (2021-10-21)In this dissertation, I contribute to the literature on Behavioral Microeconomic Theory by analyzing the consequences of well-established departures from rationality and their remedies in strategic interactions. More ... -
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 Behavioural Economics
Seithe, Mirko (2011-12-22)The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research ... -
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 Contract Theory
Terstiege, Stefan (2013-09-25)The dissertation consists of three chapters. The fist two chapters use principal-agent models to analyze optimal contract design under the assumption that the contract can induce the agent to acquire relevant private ... -
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 Econometrics and Macroeconomics
Tenhofen, Jörn (2011-03-23)From a global perspective, this dissertation illustrates the consequences of choosing a particular balance between completeness and manageability in terms of model building, both in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics. ... -
Essays in Econometrics with focus on smooth minimum distance inference
Becker, Daniel (2021-08-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semiparametric statistics as well as dynamic panel data models. In chapters 1 and 2 the smooth minimum ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Speit, Andre (2021-01-08)This dissertation is composed of four chapters with two overarching themes. In the first two chapters, we analyze common-value auctions in which bidders are either uninformed about the number of their competitors or their ... -
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
Frommeyer, Tim Julius (2017-01-18)This thesis studies information aggregation and reputation management in three microeconomic environments.<br /> In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ... -
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 Empirical Asset Pricing: Liquidity, Idiosyncratic risk, and the Conditional Risk-Return Relation
Koch, Stefan (2010-08-10)What kinds of risk do systematically drive stock returns? This question has prompted vast amounts of research and is still one of the main challenges in finance. It has not only been of interest in the finance literature, ... -
Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
van den Bongard, Inga (2013-12-19)Guided by the observation that ownership in large U.S. corporations is dispersed rather than concentrated in blocks of control (Berle and Means, 1932) and Jensen and Meckling's (1976) seminal principal-agent theory, much ... -
Essays in Empirical Finance
Drerup, Tilman H. (2015-01-08)<div>The three chapters of this thesis contain contributions to distinct branches of the finance literature---corporate finance, accounting, and household finance. Although the chapters address questions with little overlap, ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Mirza, Harun (2013-12-20)This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ...