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Essays on the Efficiency of Financial Markets
Schlusche, Bernd (2010-12-30)In the three decades since the term was coined by Eugene F. Fama, the efficient market hypothesis has become the central proposition in financial economics, and, as such, widely accepted by academic scholars. Fama (1970)'s ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias (2017-06-30)This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Ignaszak, Marek (2021-02-01)In this thesis, I aim to deepen our understanding of the functioning of the labor market. I study various frictions emerging in the market for labor and analyze how these imperfections shape the macro-economy. In Chapter ... -
Essays on the Transition to Sustainable Economies
Dobkowitz, Sonja Gabriele (2023-07-13)Current modes of production and consumption are incompatible with a state of nature that ensures a safe human existence. How to best transition to sustainable economies? This dissertation studies societal (Chapter 1), ... -
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
Püttmann, Lukas Konstantin (2018-08-15)Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ... -
Essays on Voting, Learning, and Dynamic Games
Chen, Kailin (2024-07-01)This dissertation contains three working papers. The first one analyzes communication in a cheap-talk model between multiple senders and one receiver. The second one studies a collective experimentation model. The third ... -
Essays on Worker Self Selection and Wage Inequality
Schran, Felix (2019-10-10)This thesis consists of three self contained essays about the influence of worker self selection on rising German wage inequality. Chapter 1 analyses the influence of changing returns to occupational skill on overall wage ... -
Evolution in Structured Populations
Koch, Lars Peter (2008)<p>How does social and economic interaction of agents within large populations depend on their perception of the matching-structure?<br /> When do evolutionary dynamics with limited information processing lead to stable ... -
Experimental and theoretical essays in auctions and financial markets
Georganas, Sotirios (2010-03-12)This dissertation deals with auctions and other, financial market mechanisms, and how they work in real life situations. Such mechanisms have been extensively studied in economics and many elegant results have been gained. ... -
Experimental Studies on cross-cultural Behaviour between Germans and Chinese
Geng, Hong (2010-02-12)The world has never been so integrated as today. Globalization irresistibly takes place in economic, political and social areas. However, globalization does not bring unification of cultures. On the contrary, the process ... -
Financial Decisions of Households under Uncertainty
Zimpelmann, Christian Max (2021-03-23)Understanding decision making of households has always been a key challenge of economic research. Some of the most relevant household choices are financial decisions regarding savings since these insure household consumption ... -
Financial Frictions and Business Cycles
Çakıcı, Sahibe Meral (2010-11-15)This thesis investigates the business cycle implications of financial frictions for small open economies. Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium frameworks with financial and informational frictions and uncertainty in ... -
Fiscal News, Uncertainty, and the Business Cycle
Pfeifer, Johannes (2012-02-08)The recent "Great Recession" has thrown macroeconomic research into a state of disarray and has clearly shown the need to go beyond traditional business cycle explanations. However, many of the recently proposed business ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Strack, Philipp (2013-07-17)This thesis consists of five chapters. The first three chapters form an entity and deal with stochastic contest models. The fourth chapter analyzes a problem of strategic experimentation with private payoffs. In the final ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Szech, Nora (2010-09-21)The five essays in this thesis study game-theoretic auction models and their application to economic theory. <br /> Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
Drexl, Moritz (2014-10-30)This thesis covers two main areas of microeconomic theory. The first three chapters are contributions to the theory of mechanism design and the last two chapters contribute to the literature on general equilibrium in markets ... -
Five Essays on Bank Regulation
Behn, Markus (2015-01-06)The story of the financial crisis of 2007-08 is also a story of bank regulation. Commentators from academia and policy institutions have identified an inappropriate regulation of banks and capital markets as one of the ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. (2008)<p>In the following four chapters, distinct but related experimental research analyzing strategic and non-strategic economic behavior is presented.<br /> Chapter 2, entitled "Cooperation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Prisoner's ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
Wiesen, Daniel (2011-05-16)Over the last thirty years findings from economic experiments substantially contributed to a better understanding of a wide variety of phenomena in different branches of economics. In areas like industrial organization, ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
Goerg, Sebastian J. (2010-03-18)In 2002 the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith. It was not only a distinction for the work of the two laureates, but also for the field of ...