eDissertationen: Browsing eDissertationen by Title
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2020-05-25)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied microeconomic theory. A common feature of all three projects is communication about private information in different strategic environments. In Chapter 1, I ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-08-29)One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-09-27)This dissertation tackles three questions theoretically and empirically. The first chapter studies how non-binding default options influence the behavior of consumers. We argue that default options arise in an inherently ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-10-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-01-14)What determines human behavior? This seemingly simple question is at the core of economics and the social sciences more generally. Yet, it is one of the most difficult questions to answer for at least two reasons: First, ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-11-25)This dissertation consists of four independent chapters, which all study determinants of human behavior. All chapters leverage insights from behavioral economics or methods from experimental economics. The unifying framework ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2021-01-08)The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management
(2010-03-24)A first wave of contributions to the field of psychology and economics mainly consisted of pointing out problems with traditional economic assumptions and articulating alternatives. By now, research has evolved to what ... -
Essays in Banking and Finance
(2015-06-29)This dissertation consists of three chapters covering the development and analysis of three self-standing theoretical models. They all take an informational economics view and analyze important topics related to banking ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2016-05-12)Behavioral economics has improved the understanding of economic phenomena by enriching the understanding of economic decision making with insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Rigorous empirical investigations ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2019-02-27)Few economic decisions are ever made in a social vacuum. Many of us look constantly to others for guidance or for comparison. Our actions might benefit or hurt others, so we use said actions strategically to reward or to ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2017-01-24)In this work I study the impact of different types of frames on decision making behavior. I show that the visual frame of disclosure documents influences investment and beliefs into a mutual fund. In the second part of the ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2019-12-20)In Chapter 1 (joint with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Holger Gerhardt, Gerhard Riener, and Frederik Schwerter), I examine asymmetries of intertemporal trade-offs and their implications for the patience of individuals. According ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2008)This dissertation aims at continuing and expanding three lines of research prominent in behavioral economics today. The first chapter deals with the role of reciprocity in labor contracts and explores which factors ...
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Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2013-07-16)Chapter 1 focuses on individuals’ attitudes towards the timing of information. We test a theoretical prediction by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009), that people prefer to get information “clumped together” rather than piecewise. ... -
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 ...
