E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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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.
The first two chapters ... -
Essays in the Economic Analysis of Corporate and Public Law
Hewer, Michael (2013-06-06)This thesis contains three chapters:
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)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 ...
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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.
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)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 ...
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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.
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.
The phenomenon of risk plays a ubiquitous role in finance and insurance as ... -
Essays on Dynamic Mechanism Design
Mierendorff, Konrad (2010-07-07)We consider the allocation of one or several units of a good in a dynamic environment. The time horizon is finite and in each period, a random number of potential buyers arrives. In Chapter 1, we study revenue maximization ... -
Essays on Dynamic Sales and Matching Mechanisms
Herbst, Holger (2016-10-20)This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in dynamic mechanism design and dynamic optimization.
The first chapter studies optimal contract design by a firm which faces consumers who know how important the good ... -
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Investor Behavior
Westheide, Christian (2011-04-14)The first chapter deals with an alternative asset pricing test. According to asset pricing theory, in expectation there is a positive reward for taking risks. However, using realized returns, this relation is frequently ... -
Essays on Empirical Banking
Kocaata, Zeki (2019-11-25)This dissertation comprises of three essays on empirical banking. The first chapter provides a brief introduction to the areas of empirical banking touched upon throughout the dissertation.
Chapter 2 investigates the ... -
Essays on Financial Intermediation and Financial Stability
Rother, Simon (2021-08-03)This thesis analyzes key determinants of financial intermediation and financial stability in three self-contained parts.
The first part explores banks' lending behavior by analyzing the social ties within a ... -
Essays on Financial Regulation
Kotidis, Antonios (2019-06-27)This dissertation identifies the effects of regulatory reforms on economic outcomes with a strong focus on real effects. In the first chapter, we analyze the effect of leverage ratio regulation on repo markets exploiting ...