E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
Benz, Eva (2008)According to the common position of the European Council, large installations from the energy industry and other carbon-intensive industries are part of an EU-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) ... -
Prices and Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
Weiß, Maximilian (2023-05-31)The overarching theme of this thesis is the analysis of the effect of microeconomic heterogeneities on the response of macroeconomic quantities, especially asset prices and inflation, to specific shocks. Conceptually, ... -
Pricing and Risk Management of Basket FX Derivatives and Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
Li, Jing (2012-10-16)This dissertation deals with pure financial derivatives and financial derivatives which are components of life insurance contracts.
Chapter 1 focuses on the complex situation of basket foreign exchange (FX) products. ... -
Rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Unterscheidung von Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit in Spanien, Mexiko, Argentinien, Kolumbien und Deutschland
Gatzweiler, Cliff (2008)In der Strafrechtspraxis ist die schwierige Unterscheidung zwischen Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit äußerst bedeutsam. Ohne Vorsatz oder Fahrlässigkeit des vermeintlichen Täters gibt es keine Strafbarkeit (§ 15 StGB), ohne ... -
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
Bergerhoff, Jan Niklas (2015-10-20)The dissertation includes four individual essays that are laid out over four separate chapters. Following a short overall introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 models the strategic interaction between two agents who engage ... -
Risk Management of Life Insurance Contracts with Interest Rate and Return Guarantees and an Analysis of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Procedure
Chen, An (2007)Equity-linked life insurance contracts are an example of theinterplay between insurance and finance. By considering some specific equity-linked life insurance contracts, this thesis mainly studies risk management methods, ... -
The Role of External Shocks in Emerging Market Crises
Brei, Michael (2008)The dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the research on emerging market crises. A particular focus is set on problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, which appear to have been the cause ... -
Roots and Consequences of Financial Distortions
Hols, Christopher (2019-05-28)This thesis links the roots and the consequences excess debt can have for an economy. Chapter 2 studies the impact financial frictions, caused by high debt levels, have on the business cycle. This helps understanding what ... -
Das semipräsidiale Regierungssystem der Weimarer Republik im Vergleich mit dem heutigen türkischen Regierungssystem nach den Verfassungsänderungen in 2007 und 2017
Duygun, Ahmet Mert (2019-03-22)Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dieser Frage, ob die Weimarer Reichsverfassung und die Verfassung von 1982 der Türkei durch die Verfassungswirklickeit bezüglich der Stellung des Staatsoberhauptes eine Wandlung erlebt ... -
Social Preferences and Incentives in the Workplace
Altmann, Steffen (2009-08-12)Most economic exchanges are not based on fully contingent, explicit contracts, but rather rely on informal agreements that specify the contracting parties' obligations only imprecisely. In the labor market, contractual ... -
Sovereign borrowing and sovereign default
Rühmkorf, Ronald I. U. (2014-01-23)In the course of the global financial crisis, countries that did not experience a sovereign debt crisis for several decades suddenly faced increasing sovereign default risk spreads as investors started to doubt the ... -
Strategic Product Placement and Pricing in Markets with Inattentive Consumers
Dahremöller, Carsten (2013-05-13)This dissertation contains three seperate chapters.
In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ... -
Die Systematik der Voraussetzungen einer Gläubigeranfechtung: Ein Diskussionsvorschlag zur Vermeidung von Kasuistik
Schmidt, Stefan (2018-06-27)Die Arbeit betrachtet die Voraussetzungen einer Gläubigeranfechtung aus einem alternativen Blickwinkel, der sich von der traditionell herrschenden Sichtweise grundlegend unterscheidet. Die Arbeit setzt sich dabei zum Ziel, ... -
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wagner, Christoph (2013-04-02)This thesis consists of three chapters each considering a specific part of firm activity.
Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ... -
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Röhrl, Klara Maria (2022-03-22)The first essay investigates the role social environment plays in the development of life satisfaction during childhood and adolescence. Life satisfaction is high among children and declines during adolescence. This decline ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
Nebeling, Thomas (2016-04-18)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied and theoretical econometrics. The first chapter presents a Lagrange Multiplier test for detecting shock triggered asymmetries in time series and investigates ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
Roling, Christoph (2014-04-17)Economists examine extensive cross sectional and time series data. This information allows them to study economic decision making of households, firms and countries over time or to produce forecasts of financial time series ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
Walders, Fabian (2018-08-14)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semi- and nonparametric statistics as well as empirical questions in financial econometrics. My ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics: Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Herold, Jens Gerrit (2018-12-04)Interest rates and debt are key policy instruments for monetary and fiscal policy makers and relevant not only for the individual's decision but also for the economy as a whole. This work contains three chapters on the ... -
Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Hürtgen, Patrick Marcel (2013-11-05)This thesis comprises three self-contained chapters that each contributes new insights to this field of empirical macroeconomics.
Chapter 1 examines the role of shocks to consumer misperceptions in explaining ...