E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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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 ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics: Binary Choice Experiments
Chmura, Thorsten (2010-09-14)This thesis is about binary decisions participants make in a laboratory environment. For this purpose, laboratory experiments are conducted to investigate effects of individual decision making in a microeconomic context. ... -
Four Economic Experiments on Social Preferences
Hofmeier, Jana (2019-10-16)This thesis presents and discusses four different economic experiments investigating the foundations and formation of social preferences. Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 all take a closer look at prosociality. Prosociality ... -
Four Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Holler, Radost (2023-05-25)Culture -- as defined by the collection of beliefs, norms and preferences shared within social groups -- interacts in complex ways with social and economic outcomes. <br> It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ... -
Four Essays in Auction Theory and Contest Theory
Knyazev, Dmitriy (2018-07-06)This thesis consists of four essays that belong to the literature on the theory of auctions and the theory of contests. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are devoted to the research on auctions and study the role of symmetry in ... -
Four Essays in Econometrics and Macroeconomics
Born, Benjamin (2011-09-30)Chapter 1 proposes simple and robust diagnostic tests for spatial dependence, specifically for spatial error autocorrelation and spatial lag dependence. The idea of our tests is to reformulate the testing problem such that ... -
Four Essays in Economic Theory
Seel, Christian (2011-10-12)This thesis consists of four chapters. The first three chapters analyze contest models in continuous time. Differing from most of previous literature, we assume that each contestant observes his own progress and can adjust ... -
Four Essays in Economic Theory
Dizdar, Deniz (2013-07-10)This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study two-sided one-to-one matching markets with quasi-linear utility and multi-dimensional ... -
Four Essays in Empirical Finance
Gider, Jasmin (2012-10-10)In four self-contained essays, this thesis aims at empirically exploring phenomena which emerge as a result of the asymmetric information stemming from the separation of ownership and control. Chapter 1 deals with the ... -
Four Essays in Equity-Linked Life and Pension Insurance: Financial Analysis of Surrender Guarantees, Pension Guarantee Funds and Pension Retirement Plans
Uzelac, Filip (2014-10-07)In this dissertation we study three very important types of insurance, equity-linked life insurance with surrender guarantees, pension insurance and the insurance provided by (pension) insurance guarantee funds.<br /> In ... -
Four Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Roesler, Anne-Katrin (2015-08-20)This thesis consists of four essays which all analyze aspects of the role of private information and information design in different game theoretic settings. In the first chapter, I study the implications of rational ... -
Four Essays on Economic Preferences
Becker, Anke (2016-08-29)This thesis consists of four independent chapters. Each chapter contributes experimental evidence to our knowledge on economic preferences. Chapter one shows that a preference for truth-telling per se is even more prevalent ... -
Four Essays on Investment
Schröder, David (2008)Investment decisions lie at the heart of many economic activities. Each day, individual investors, banks, and fund management firms try to optimize their portfolio investments at international financial markets around the ... -
Die Garantenstellung des Betriebsinhabers
Carrión Zenteno, Andy Jefferson (2017-07-03)Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, ob der Betriebsinhaber wegen Unterlassens nach §13 StGB für Straftaten seiner Untergebenen verantwortlich ist. Ausgehend vom Ingerenzgedanken gelangt sie zu der Lösung, dass der ... -
Die Grenzen der elterlichen Sorge bei der Veröffentlichung von Bildern und Videos des eigenen Kindes in sozialen Netzwerken und auf Video-Sharing-Plattformen
Dannecker, Sophie Julia (2024-07-05)Kinderbilder und -videos sind aus sozialen Netzwerken und von Video-Sharing-Plattformen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Oftmals sind es Eltern selbst, die diese Inhalte teilen. Sie erschaffen dadurch eine weltweit abrufbare, ... -
Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien: Eine analytische Beschreibung
Balder, Sven (2009-04-16)Zweck von Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien ist es eine untere Grenze von Vermögen zu sichern und dabei trotzdem von steigenden Finanzmärkten zu profitieren. Die Absicherung wird dabei häufig durch eine dynamische ... -
Heterogeneity in Economics and Aggregation
Paluch, Michal (2008)Heterogeneity is all around us. People differ substantially with respect to their tastes, expectations, and available resources, and firms are heterogeneous in technologies and the quantity or nature of input factors. Since ... -
Heterogeneity in Household Portfolios and its Implication for Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Lütticke, Ralph Clemens (2016-09-14)A household's portfolio generally consists of non-tradable and tradable assets. The most important non-tradable asset is human capital. It is the primary source of income for most households and at the same time subject ... -
The Impact of Bounded Rationality on Equity-Linked Life Insurance and Technical Trading
Hilpert, Christian Martin (2014-10-07)This dissertation deals with the impact of investor behavior for life insurance and technical trading. The first part of this dissertation is concerned with equity-linked life insurance contracts, while the second part of ... -
Income Risk, Self-Insurance and Public Policies: Consequences for Aggregate Fluctuations and Wealth Inequality
Pham-Dào, Liên Annette (2016-10-20)This thesis investigates quantitatively the distributional and aggregate outcomes that result from the interaction of income risk, self-insurance motives and public policies.<br /> The first chapter assesses the business ...