E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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Essays on Individual Decisions in Large Collectives
Schmieter, Finn Simon (2022-09-01)This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory on the topic of how individual decisions shape a large collective and how in return the large collective affects the individual behavior. Chapter 1, Voting ... -
Essays on Inflation Expectations, Leaning Against the Wind Policy, and Consumer Bankruptcy
ter Steege, Lucas (2021-05-03)Times of severe economic crisis are, fortunately, rare events. Large recessions, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Great Recession during the late 2000s, have detrimental effects on all economic sectors. ... -
Essays on Information and Communication in Microeconomic Theory
Deimen, Inga (2016-06-21)This dissertation studies the role of information in three different microeconomic environments and introduces for each an independent theoretical model.<br /> In the first chapter, we consider a deliberation and voting ... -
Essays on Information Disclosure in Auctions and Contests
Rieck, Thomas (2011-05-06)In strategic decision making, the agents' decisions depend crucially on the information they have. Less information means more uncertainty about the other agents' possible behavior, making strategic decisions more complex. ... -
Essays on Information in Politics and Social Decisions
Heese, Carl (2020-09-17)This thesis consists of two parts. The first part consists of two chapters. The second part has one chapter.<br /> How does the information of citizens shape the democratic process? This is the question asked in the ... -
Essays on Information Transmission and its Effects in Markets with Imperfect Competition
Conze, Maximilian (2017-05-12)This thesis consists of four essays in the field of industrial organization. The essays explore questions of information transmission and its influence in markets characterized by imperfect competition.<br /> The first ... -
Essays on International Policy Coordination in Interdependent Economies
Evers, Michael (2007)Throughout the last couple of decades the world has experienced a strong and steady increase in the economic interdependence among national economies. Accordingly, national monetary and fiscal policies are also subject to ... -
Essays on Labor Market Risk and Asset-Based Income Insurance
Wellschmied, Felix (2014-05-27)This dissertation contributes to the understanding of wage risk and its implication for the macroeconomy. <br /> The first chapter links differences in unemployment risk between countries to differences in product market ... -
Essays on Large Panel Data Models
Bada, Oualid (2015-06-09)The standard panel data literature is moving from micro panels, where the cross-section dimension is large and the intertemporal sample size is small, to large panels, where both, the cross-section and the time dimension, ... -
Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets
Hengelbrock, Jördis (2009-10-09)The smooth functioning of financial markets and market efficiency hinge on the ability of market places to limit trading frictions. Liquidity measures the degree of frictions and is an important, if not the most important, ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Frictions
Zhang, Haiping (2006)Considerable empirical evidence has demonstrated strong linkages between the financial sector and the real production sector of an economy. A huge theoretical literature has emerged since 1970s for the understanding of ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries
Dong, Daxin (2017-07-28)This thesis consists of three explorations on macroeconomic policies in developing countries. <br /> The first essay evaluates the desirability of public capital investment, taking China as the study subject. Based on an ... -
Essays on Market Microstructure in Finance and Health
Schilling, Linda Marlene (2019-11-26)The first part of this dissertation studies financial stability of maturity transforming institutions (banks) under variations of capital structure. As banks are financed by more uninsured deposits as opposed to equity, a ... -
Essays on Matching Markets
Westkamp, Alexander (2009-08-12)The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.<br /> The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ... -
Essays on Mechanism Design without Transfers
Niemeyer, Axel (2023-06-29)This thesis comprises four self-contained essays on mechanism design without transfers. Chapters 1 and 2 characterize ex post and posterior implementation in collective decision problems with interdependent values. Chapters ... -
Essays on Microeconomics under Non-Transferable Utility
Bilgin, Günnur Ege (2024-08-05)This thesis consists of three chapters on microeconomics under non-transferable utility. In Chapter 1, I analyze a canonical two-sided many-to-one matching market that has two disjoint sides in an economy (firms-workers). ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy Interactions with Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets
Niemann, Stefan (2008)This dissertation aims at contributing to the literature investigating the positive and normative framework for monetary policy. It provides an assessment of macroeconomic (i.e. monetary and to some extent also fiscal) ... -
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
Kranz, Sebastian (2008)<p>This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters. <br /> Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ... -
Essays on Multidimensional Information
Ketelaar, Felix (2015-07-10)This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the ... -
Essays on Optimal Contracts and Renegotiation
Ohlendorf, Susanne (2009-09-11)Contract theory studies the incentives and contractual outcomes in economic interactions, and how they are influenced by given institutions and information structures. On an abstract level, a contractual relationship is ...