E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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Denkmalschutz und Eigentumsgewährleistung im deutschen und russischen Recht: Eine rechtsvergleichende Darstellung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtslage in Nordrhein-Westfalen und dem Gebiet Leningrad
Davydov, Dimitrij (2010-09-28)Die kulturelle Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Russischen Föderation – seit 1993 in einem gesonderten Abkommen verankert – sollte, neben anderen kulturell relevanten Feldern, auch die Kooperation ... -
Deregulation and Bank Performance: An Empirical Study for the US
Lin, Lin (2006)Recent deregulation tide has greatly changed the landscape of global banking industry. The idea of “universal banking” or “financial supermarket” is gaining appeal in many countries in the world. US, the world’s biggest ... -
Determinants of Human Capital Formation
Stans, Renske Adriana (2020-08-25)Human capital is crucial for individuals’ economic prosperity. As such, differences in human capital are largely responsible for existing inequalities within society, making it essential to understand the determinants of ... -
Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games: Towards a General Perspective
Lauermann, Stephan (2007)"<i>Nature</i> makes no jumps," according to a famous saying - but what about economies? Is <i>economic</i> welfare continuous in the size of the frictions of trading and do the welfare theorems hold approximately when ... -
Econometric Analysis of Financial Risk and Correlation
Homm, Ulrich-Michael (2012-10-10)The contribution of this dissertation is threefold. First, econometric procedures to test for the occurence of asset price bubbles ex post and in real time are proposed. Real time monitoring procedures represent an additional ... -
Economic Behavior in Real Effort Experiments
Eberlein, Marion (2008)<p>Laboratory experiments have gained more and more importance in economics in the last twenty years. Their superior control possibilities are not called in doubt. However, it is often complained that laboratory experiments ... -
Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
Willrodt, Jana (2018-12-18)The first three chapters of this thesis are dedicated to empirically examining factors beyond risk preferences that influence decision-making under risk: psychological states (Chapter 2), character traits (Chapter 3), and ... -
Essays about Option Valuation under Stochastic Interest Rates
Wittke, Manuel (2011-04-06)This thesis consists of three essays on the valuation of options under stochastic interest rates. <br /> In the first essay we examine multivariate models where the stochastic process of a log-normally distributed underlying ... -
Essays in Applied and Theoretical Microeconomics
Russ, Kilian Marco (2022-06-13)Science is the discovery of knowledge. The process of this discovery is based on two ingredients: hypothesizing – often guided by theoretical abstraction and deductive reasoning – and testing in the form of empirical ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Behavioral Economics
Deckers, Thomas (2014-10-07)This thesis is divided into four parts. This abstract provides separate previews for each of those four parts.<br /> Cross-section regressions often examine many candidate regressors. We use multiple testing procedures ... -
Essays in Applied Macroeconomics
Pessoa, Ana Sofia (2023-10-12)This dissertation consists of three independent research studies. All of them use empirical databases and methods to shed light on important topics. The first chapter provides a full picture of the effects of government ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Kulms, Marius (2020-05-25)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied microeconomic theory. A common feature of all three projects is communication about private information in different strategic environments. In Chapter 1, I ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Chen, Bo (2016-07-11)This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Schmitz, Fabian (2023-02-14)In my dissertation, I analyze how policymakers can protect employees and consumers from being exploited by firms. In chapter 1, an employer undermines minimum wages by adding non-compete clauses to the workers' employment ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Cosentino, Melina Maria (2024-02-19)This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters whose main objective lies in providing model-based explanations of and policy recommendations for "real-world" phenomena that attracted my attention throughout ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Grunewald, Andreas (2013-09-27)This dissertation tackles three questions theoretically and empirically. The first chapter studies how non-binding default options influence the behavior of consumers. We argue that default options arise in an inherently ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wogrolly, Axel (2021-01-08)The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Yokeeswaran, Venuga (2015-10-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.<br /> Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Ananyev, Mikhail (2021-07-19)Two topics are covered in this dissertation. One topic is about individual's contribution decisions in social dilemmas situations (situations, when everyone is better off keeping their endowments for themselves but everybody ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Frackenpohl, Gerrit (2014-08-29)One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing ...