E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Preusser, Justus Matthias (2024-02-02)This thesis consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. The first two essays concern allocation problems with correlated information and without transfers. The third essay is on the topic of information in dynamic ... -
Essays in Microeconomics
Weinschenk, Philipp (2009-11-17)This thesis contains five papers. Two belong to the field of industrial organization. Both are on innovation and the investment in it. The paper “Persistence of Monopoly and Research Specialization” takes a new look at ... -
Essays in Monetary Theory
Kurka, Stephan Florian (2012-05-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in monetary theory. Each period, agents trade in a day and in a night market. The night market is a standard Walrasian market. In the day market agents are anonymous which prevents ... -
Essays in Public Economics
Hansen, Emanuel (2014-11-26)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first chapter studies political competition with endogenously formed political parties. Party formation allows policy-motivated citizens to coordinate their political ... -
Essays in Public Economics
Aigner, Rafael Christian (2014-05-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The first chapter addresses the question how taxes in the financial sector affect the real economy. One set of results concerns the tax burden: Given a fixed public budget ... -
Essays in Public Finance
Scherf, Robert (2019-07-23)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on public finance, that is, on the study of government revenue and expenditure. Taxation and public spending reflect society's values, priorities, as well as its ... -
Essays in Statistics
Gleim, Alexander (2016-03-29)This thesis is comprised of several contributions to the field of mathematical statistics, particularly with regards to computational issues of Bayesian statistics and functional data analysis.<br /> The first two chapters ... -
Essays in the Economic Analysis of Corporate and Public Law
Hewer, Michael (2013-06-06)This thesis contains three chapters: <br /> The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ... -
Essays in Theoretical Microeconomics
Lahr, Patrick (2024-02-02)This thesis comprises three self-contained essays dealing with the communication and use of information between strategic players. In Chapters 1 and 3, I follow the mechanisms design paradigm, assuming that a player (referred ... -
Essays on Adaptive Learning with Applications to Monetary Policy
Fries, Oliver (2008)<p>While the concept of rational expectations has become the standard tool of modellingexpectations in macroeconomic models, it has been criticised for its high information and rationality requirements. Moreover, rational ... -
Essays on Auctions, Tournaments, and Imperfect Competition
Ding, Wei (2011-09-30)This thesis is a collection of essays in applied microeconomic theory. It is composed of three parts. <br /> Part I (Procurement of innovation: tournaments vs auctions) deals with the procurement of innovations and compares ... -
Essays on Basket Options Hedging and Irreversible Investment Valuation
Su, Xia (2008)<p>Basket options are one of well-known newly-generated exotic options. As its name implies, it is an option on a portfolio of several assets. As the underlying basket offers more diversification, basket options gain ... -
Essays on Beliefs
Stötzer, Lasse Simon (2020-12-15)Beliefs govern how individuals interact with the world around them. Their pivotal role in decision-making processes has led to great interest in how they are formed and arguably of more importance, how they are changed. ... -
Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behavior
Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm (2018-08-29)Next to preferences over outcomes, people's subjective beliefs about unobserved states of the world are the central building block of economic models of decision-making. This thesis submits that a more nuanced account of ... -
Essays on Business Cycles
Grodecka, Anna (2015-07-21)The recent Great Recession has renewed interest in the role of financial markets and credit in the economy, as well as in the boundaries of monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies that impact macroeconomic developments ... -
Essays on Collective Action
Pönitzsch, Gert (2014-08-06)This dissertation comprises 3 chapters dealing with collective action. Chapter 1 explores the behavior of individuals who face the provision of a public good that requires a minimal amount of aggregate contributions. Using ... -
Essays on Contracts, Mechanisms and Information Revelation
Litterscheid, Sina (2014-11-14)This dissertation comprises three essays dealing with topics from microeconomic theory. The first chapter is a contribution to the literature on the economics of privacy. During the last decade, an increasing number of ... -
Essays on Convergence and Synchronization
Esser, Andreas (2014-01-08)Convergence of macroeconomic aggregates and subsequent synchronization of the cyclical features affecting these aggregates have been at the heart of economic debate for quite a while. Especially with the recent developments ... -
Essays on Defined Benefit Pension Insurance and Participating Life Insurance
Cheng, Chunli (2015-12-22)This dissertation deals with two important types of insurance: defined benefit pension insurance in Chapter 2 and participating life insurance in Chapters 3 and 4.<br /> In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ... -
Essays on Dual Risk Measures and the Asymptotic Term Structure
Schulze, Klaas (2009-08-27)This dissertation covers two distinct topics in the field of financial economics: risk measurement and the term structure of interest rates.<br /> The phenomenon of risk plays a ubiquitous role in finance and insurance as ...