The Faculty of Law and Economics: E-Dissertationen
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Essays in International Economics and Macrofinance
(2026-07-10)Economic interdependence increasingly has political implications. At the international level, the tides of global trade and finance are currently shifting, with countries like the U.S. and China increasingly leveraging ... -
Essays on Macrofinance and Inflation
(2026-07-08)This dissertation studies how financial balance sheets - of investors, banks, and households - transmit macroeconomic shocks and household decisions into real outcomes. It consists of three independent chapters. <br/> The ... -
Essays on Spatial Inequality, Mobility, and Labor Market Policy
(2026-07-03)This dissertation consists of three essays on spatial inequality, worker mobility, and labor market policy. The first chapter studies how workers' careers differ depending on the local labor market in which they enter ... -
Essays on Human Capital
(2026-05-11)This thesis comprises three essays that examine how human capital shapes economic outcomes across three distinct dimensions: as a motive for individual choices, as a determinant of industry composition, and as a measure ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2026-05-11)This dissertation examines how informational framing, cognitive complexity, and political identity shape beliefs and subsequent behavior. Across four chapters based on experimental studies, it investigates fairness judgments ... -
Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics
(2026-03-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters on inference in various non- and semiparametric problems. The chapters are self-contained and can be read separately. Each chapter ends with an appendix that collects the proofs ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2026-02-03)This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters of original research – two of which are single-authored and one with a fellow PhD student – and contributes predominantly to behavioral economics and experimental ... -
Essays in Bargaining, Auctions and Payments
(2026-01-27)This dissertation studies three game-theoretical models in bargaining, auctions, and payment systems. <br/> The first chapter examines reputational bargaining when one party may possess full information about the rationality ... -
Forderungskollision: Die Gläubigerkonkurrenz im deutschen Privatrecht
(2025)Wenn ein Schuldner nicht all seine Gläubiger befriedigen kann oder muss, kollidieren ihre Forderungen. Lässt die Rechtsordnung die Gläubiger konkurrieren, weil sie hofft, dass alles gut gehen wird, oder weil sie einen ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2025-10-08)One of the central tasks society assigns to economists is to improve tax and social transfer systems. This requires not only thorough theoretical thinking about the optimal design of policies to reach the policy objective, ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2025-10-01)Understanding the role of public policy in shaping individual behavior, and thus broader economic outcomes, is fundamental to the design of effective policy interventions. Individuals do not make decisions in a vacuum: ... -
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Labor Market Risk
(2025-09-30)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays that examine the macroeconomic consequences of labor market risk. The first two chapters focus on heterogeneity in labor market risk and its consequences on life-cycle ... -
Essays on Labor Market Policy
(2025-09-02)Optimal Short-Time Work Policy in Recessions: <br/> Short-time work (STW) is a subsidy program linked to hours reduction that has been widely used around Europe to combat job losses in the Great Recession and the COVID-19 ... -
Three Essays in Financial Economics
(2025-07-09)This thesis investigates how financial institutions and policies by public institutions shape credit market dynamics. I focus on the roles of monetary policy, government credit programs, and macroprudential regulation. The ... -
Differenzierungsklausel im allgemeinverbindlichen Tarifvertrag gemeinsamer Einrichtungen
(2025-07-07)Vor dem Hintergrund sinkender Tarifbindung und des politischen Ziels, die Tarifautonomie zu stärken, untersucht diese Dissertation eine bislang kaum beleuchtete Sonderkonstellation: Differenzierungsklauseln in allgemeinv ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
(2025-06-17)If we want to understand the most severe macroeconomic disruptions, we must understand the causes of financial instability. Despite their devastating economic and social consequences, financial crises have been recurring ... -
Geheimnisschutz zwischen Arbeitsrecht, Datenschutz und Gesellschaftsrecht
(2025-05-06)Die Dissertation „Geheimnisschutz zwischen Arbeitsrecht, Datenschutz und Gesellschaftsrecht“ befasst sich mit den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen des Schutzes von Geschäftsgeheimnissen im Beschäftigungskontext. ... -
Essays in Economic Theory and Industrial Organization
(2025-04-22)This thesis consists of three essays in economic theory and industrial organization. <br /> The first chapter, The Welfare Implications of Product Recommendations, studies the implications of informative product ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
(2025-03-17)This dissertation examines the role of insurance companies in financial markets and their implications for financial stability and monetary policy transmission. Insurance companies, which are among the largest financial ... -
Essays on Financial and Labor Market Institutions
(2025-03-10)This dissertation examines financial and labor market institutions in the context of risk and insurance. The first chapter focuses on financial market institutions. I build a theoretical model to study incentives for ...
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