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Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2020-09-17)This dissertation presents three chapters revolving around the common theme ‘motivated reasoning.’ Motivated reasoning occurs when individuals tradeoff accurate beliefs and desirable beliefs (Bénabou and Tirole, 2016). ... -
Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization
(2016-11-24)How do consumers make consumption decisions if the acquisition of product information is difficult? What determines their search behavior and ultimately their choices? In three essays I examine the way in which the answers ... -
Essays in Behavioral Public Economics
(2009-02-20)This dissertation aims at the identification of systematic behavioral biases that are relevant in the context of economic policy. In total, the dissertation consists of four chapters. In each chapter, we empirically analyze ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics
(2011-12-22)The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research ... -
Essays in Contract Theory
(2013-09-25)The dissertation consists of three chapters. The fist two chapters use principal-agent models to analyze optimal contract design under the assumption that the contract can induce the agent to acquire relevant private ... -
Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomics and Political Economy
(2012-01-04)This dissertation attempts in four essays to contribute to economic research in two separate fields, and is therefore divided into two self-contained parts.
Part I (Dynamic Macroeconomics) is rooted in the modern ... -
Essays in Econometrics and Macroeconomics
(2011-03-23)From a global perspective, this dissertation illustrates the consequences of choosing a particular balance between completeness and manageability in terms of model building, both in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics. ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2016-07-19)This thesis consists of five chapters on topics in mechanism design and voting.
In Chapter 1, we study a committee deciding collectively whether to accept a given proposal or to maintain the status quo. Committee ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2019-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The common theme of all chapters is the analysis of collective decision problems in which efficient decisions depend on information that is ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-02-21)This thesis consists of three chapters.
The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-01-18)This thesis studies information aggregation and reputation management in three microeconomic environments.
In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ... -
Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing: Liquidity, Idiosyncratic risk, and the Conditional Risk-Return Relation
(2010-08-10)What kinds of risk do systematically drive stock returns? This question has prompted vast amounts of research and is still one of the main challenges in finance. It has not only been of interest in the finance literature, ... -
Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
(2013-12-19)Guided by the observation that ownership in large U.S. corporations is dispersed rather than concentrated in blocks of control (Berle and Means, 1932) and Jensen and Meckling's (1976) seminal principal-agent theory, much ... -
Essays in Empirical Finance
(2015-01-08)The three chapters of this thesis contain contributions to distinct branches of the finance literature---corporate finance, accounting, and household finance. Although the chapters address questions with little overlap, ...Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2014-08-20)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in empirical macroeconomics and analyzes important issues related to monetary policy and labor supply. The first chapter deals with the problem of weak identification ...Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-12-20)This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ...Essays in Empirical Public Finance
(2012-05-09)This thesis consists of three empirical contributions – each of them concerned with aspects of public finances at the sub-national level in the European Union.
Chapter 1 offers an empirical answer to the question of ...Essays in Equilibrium Search Theory
(2006)Equilibrium search models have provided many insights in the analysis of labor markets and consumer product markets. While much research has been conducted on the basis of random matching, the essays in this thesis put ...Essays in Financial Economics
(2017-07-25)This dissertation consists of four chapters.
In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...Essays in Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics
(2009-11-17)Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ...
