E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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Learning in Macroeconomics: An Empirical Approach
Junker, Simon (2009-04-23)This thesis explores the role of adaptive learning in explaining empirical phenomena such as the Great Inflation. We show that the historic monetary policy deviated from the optimally recommended policy under learning. ... -
Lévy Processes in Finance: The Change of Measure and Non-Linear Dependence
Wannenwetsch, Jens (2005)This thesis deals with applications of Lévy processes in the field of mathematical finance. The class of Lévy processes generalizes the widely used Brownian motion in the sense that the distribution of their increments can ... -
Location, Location, Location: Long-run Trends in Housing Markets and Regional Economic Development
Dohmen, Martin (2022-08-01)This thesis tries to make some progress in understanding long-run trends in the spatial behavior of housing markets and economic development. To achieve this, it introduces and analyses new regional long-run data to uncover ... -
The Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences of Changing Labor Mobility and Unemployment
Hartung, Benjamin (2019-05-08)The causes and consequences of worker mobility and its broader implications for labor market efficiency and welfare are complex and have been widely discussed in both the public debate and the academic literature. This ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Integration, Demographic Aging and Automation Technology
Mann, Katja Verena (2018-07-23)This thesis combines work on three important long-run trends and their macroeconomic implications: Financial integration, demographic aging and the use of automation technology in the production process. The first chapter ... -
Market Behavior and Market Interaction under Incomplete Information: Theory and Empirical Implications
Merzyn, Wolfram (2007)Chapter 1 deals with the question of how buyers behave in the presence of uncertainty about the distribution of prices. To this end, we consider a model of a big, decentralized auction market in which two types of agents ... -
Modeling the Dynamics of Stock Prices Using Realized Variation Measures
Pigorsch, Uta (2007)Recently, the availability of high-frequency financial data has opened new research directions for modeling the volatility of asset returns. In particular, building on the theory of quadratic variation, the high-frequency ... -
Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems Modeling Price Dynamics: Aspects of Financial Economics in Oil Markets
Jäger, Simon (2008)In many economic and financial processes mathematical modeling leads to nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems. The interplay of stochastic and nonlinear effects is important under many aspects. Whereas the dynamic ... -
On Avoidance and Neglect as Barriers to Informed Decision-Making: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
Fels, Markus Peter (2014-08-07)The thesis comprises three essays on the reasons for and consequences of poorly-informed decision-making.<br /> Chapter 1 investigates active avoidance of information as a source of uninformed decision-making. Next to ... -
On cooperation and trust in strategic games: Behavioral Evidence from the Middle East and Europe
Walkowitz, Gari (2010-04-08)This thesis is about selected issues of cooperation and trust in strategic games. <br /> This first chapter paper investigates the impact of game presentation on cooperation dependent on subject-pool affiliation. Two ... -
On Dynamic Coherent and Convex Risk Measures: Risk Optimal Behavior and Information Gains
Engelage, Daniel (2009-08-27)We consider tangible economic problems for agents assessing risk by virtue of dynamic coherent and convex risk measures or, equivalently, utility in terms of dynamic multiple priors and dynamic variational preferences in ... -
On Modeling and Measuring Credit, Recovery and Liquidity Risks
Cadena Ibarra, Juan Marcelo (2010-03-17)We investigate three major risks of financial markets: credit, recovery and liquidity risks.<br /> Chapter 1 studies credit risk in an irreversible investment problem. The analysis demonstrates that optimal investment time ... -
On the Formation and Economic Implications of Subjective Beliefs and Individual Preferences
Enke, Benjamin (2016-08-29)The conceptual framework of neoclassical economics posits that individual decision-making processes can be represented as maximization of some objective function. In this framework, people's goals and desires are expressed ... -
On the Implications of Unobserved Technology and Preference Shifts for Aggregate Labor Demand and Supply
Balleer, Almut (2009-08-14)The macroeconomic approach to the labor market aims at explaining aggregate labor market phenomena that have been present in many industrialized countries such as the United States or the western European countries in the ... -
Overconfidence and Loss Aversion in Economic Decision Making
Ewers, Mara (2012-12-21)In chapter one, we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of ... -
The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
Benz, Eva (2008)According to the common position of the European Council, large installations from the energy industry and other carbon-intensive industries are part of an EU-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) ... -
Prices and Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
Weiß, Maximilian (2023-05-31)The overarching theme of this thesis is the analysis of the effect of microeconomic heterogeneities on the response of macroeconomic quantities, especially asset prices and inflation, to specific shocks. Conceptually, ... -
Pricing and Risk Management of Basket FX Derivatives and Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
Li, Jing (2012-10-16)This dissertation deals with pure financial derivatives and financial derivatives which are components of life insurance contracts.<br /> Chapter 1 focuses on the complex situation of basket foreign exchange (FX) products. ... -
Rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Unterscheidung von Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit in Spanien, Mexiko, Argentinien, Kolumbien und Deutschland
Gatzweiler, Cliff (2008)In der Strafrechtspraxis ist die schwierige Unterscheidung zwischen Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit äußerst bedeutsam. Ohne Vorsatz oder Fahrlässigkeit des vermeintlichen Täters gibt es keine Strafbarkeit (§ 15 StGB), ohne ... -
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
Bergerhoff, Jan Niklas (2015-10-20)The dissertation includes four individual essays that are laid out over four separate chapters. Following a short overall introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 models the strategic interaction between two agents who engage ...