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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 Multidimensional Information
Ketelaar, Felix (2015-07-10)This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the ... -
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 Parental Leave, Global Disinflation and Non-Renewable Resources
Schwerhoff, Gregor (2012-03-28)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. In chapter 1 the focus is on the allocation of parental leave between spouses. We modify a model of collective rationality developed by Pierre-André Chiappori and coauthors ... -
Essays on Preference Formation
Destan, Cavit Görkem (2023-08-17)This dissertation centers on cognitive factors like attention, complexity, motivation, and memory, and their role in explaining individual decision-making processes. The study aims to contribute to this literature by ... -
Essays on Public Policy Interactions
Duque Gabriel, Ricardo (2023-10-12)This essay presents three chapters on the macroeconomics effects of monetary and fiscal policies. -
Essays on Social Identity and Moral Behavior
Henkel, Jan Luca (2023-08-18)This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of individual decision-making by presenting four independent research papers that study the determinants and consequences of individual decision-making. <br /> ... -
Essays on Social Preferences, Incentives, and Institutions
Wibral, Matthias (2009-10-08)This dissertation studies social preferences and institutions, and the incentives which arise from their interaction. A particular focus lies on situations involving incomplete contracts and moral hazard. Chapter 1 studies ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the Efficiency of Financial Markets
Schlusche, Bernd (2010-12-30)In the three decades since the term was coined by Eugene F. Fama, the efficient market hypothesis has become the central proposition in financial economics, and, as such, widely accepted by academic scholars. Fama (1970)'s ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias (2017-06-30)This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Ignaszak, Marek (2021-02-01)In this thesis, I aim to deepen our understanding of the functioning of the labor market. I study various frictions emerging in the market for labor and analyze how these imperfections shape the macro-economy. In Chapter ... -
Essays on the nexus between technological change, policies, and value chain governance for a transition towards a low-carbon economy
Mac Clay, Pablo (2024-07-04)Technological change is essential to reconciling economic growth with environmental conservation. A transition toward an environmentally sustainable economic system requires new production techniques that improve land use ... -
Essays on the Transition to Sustainable Economies
Dobkowitz, Sonja Gabriele (2023-07-13)Current modes of production and consumption are incompatible with a state of nature that ensures a safe human existence. How to best transition to sustainable economies? This dissertation studies societal (Chapter 1), ... -
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
Püttmann, Lukas Konstantin (2018-08-15)Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ... -
Essays on Voting, Learning, and Dynamic Games
Chen, Kailin (2024-07-01)This dissertation contains three working papers. The first one analyzes communication in a cheap-talk model between multiple senders and one receiver. The second one studies a collective experimentation model. The third ... -
Essays on Worker Self Selection and Wage Inequality
Schran, Felix (2019-10-10)This thesis consists of three self contained essays about the influence of worker self selection on rising German wage inequality. Chapter 1 analyses the influence of changing returns to occupational skill on overall wage ... -
Essential and complementary function of dendritic cell subsets during immunotherapy
Dähling, Sabrina (2020-03-11)T lymphocytes are critical components of the adaptive immune system that protects us against a variety of infections. However, during chronic infections such as with HIV, HCV and HBV as well as cancers, T cells become ... -
Das essentielle YycFGHI-Regulationssystem von Staphylococcus aureus: Charakterisierung von Überexpressions-Mutanten und die Etablierung zweier in vitro-Modellsysteme
Türck, Michael (2009-10-08)Bei dem essentiellen Zwei-Komponenten-Regulationssystem (TCS, two-component regulatory system) YycFG handelt es sich um ein hochkonserviertes System, das aus der Sensor-Histidin-Kinase YycG und ihrem zugehörigen Responseregulator ...