E-Dissertationen: Auflistung E-Dissertationen nach Titel
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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 ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Storjohann, Lidia (2014-08-20)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in empirical macroeconomics and analyzes important issues related to monetary policy and labor supply. The first chapter deals with the problem of weak identification ... -
Essays in Empirical Public Finance
Foremny, Dirk (2012-05-09)This thesis consists of three empirical contributions – each of them concerned with aspects of public finances at the sub-national level in the European Union.<br /> Chapter 1 offers an empirical answer to the question of ... -
Essays in Equilibrium Search Theory
Kircher, Philipp (2006)Equilibrium search models have provided many insights in the analysis of labor markets and consumer product markets. While much research has been conducted on the basis of random matching, the essays in this thesis put ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
Sobott, Jonas (2017-07-25)This dissertation consists of four chapters. <br /> In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
Voss, Paul (2021-08-30)This dissertation is composed of four self-contained chapters studying how financial markets affect the governance of public companies. The first chapter shows how large shareholders can engage in governance when there is ... -
Essays in Income and Wealth Inequality
Steins, Ulrike Isabel (2020-12-09)The distribution of income and wealth across households in the U.S. has changed dramatically since the 1950s. How are rising income and wealth inequality linked? This thesis aims at providing new insights into the relationship ... -
Essays in Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics
Herweg, Fabian (2009-11-17)Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
Buzaushina, Almira (2011-08-11)This dissertation aims at continuing the theoretical and empirical analysis in international macroeconomics with an emphasis on improving the quantitative performance of New Open Economy Macroeconomic models. Chapter 1 ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
Chen, Yao (2018-08-15)What are the conditions for a well-functioning currency union? Since the 1960s', there has been a long stream of literature dedicated to this question. Through studying the historical fixed exchange rate regime of the Gold ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Financial Crisis Forecasting
Ward, Felix (2018-08-15)This thesis contributes long-run perspectives to the research on international macroeconomics and macro-finance. Chapters 2 and 3, analyze international financial linkages and their evolution over the past 150 years. Chapter ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
Parys, Juliane (2011-10-18)In three essays covering three dimensions of the working lives of employees I aim to contribute to the study of labor economics. While the first chapter looks at migration decisions as part of an optimal work-location plan ...