eDissertationen: Browsing eDissertationen by Issue Date
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Essays on Organization and Incentives in R&D and on Compatibility in Two-Sided Markets
(2008)This dissertation covers two distinct topics. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 investigate a model with a principal and two agents, where the hidden action of agents is a source of moral hazard problem. It is shown that competition ...
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Three issues of policy implementation in Europe: An applied political economy perspective
(2008)This thesis aims to shed light on the political-economic factors explaining the policy outcomes of the following three European political issues:
The first one is the geographic allocation of the three largest ... -
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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Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2008)In the following four chapters, distinct but related experimental research analyzing strategic and non-strategic economic behavior is presented.
Chapter 2, entitled "Cooperation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Prisoner's ... -
Essays on Adaptive Learning with Applications to Monetary Policy
(2008)While the concept of rational expectations has become the standard tool of modellingexpectations in macroeconomic models, it has been criticised for its high information and rationality requirements. Moreover, rational ...
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Heterogeneity in Economics and Aggregation
(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 ... -
Evolution in Structured Populations
(2008)How does social and economic interaction of agents within large populations depend on their perception of the matching-structure?
When do evolutionary dynamics with limited information processing lead to stable ... -
Rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Unterscheidung von Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit in Spanien, Mexiko, Argentinien, Kolumbien und Deutschland
(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 ... -
A contribution to the determinants of total factor productivity growth
(2008)Why do some countries grow and others stagnate? The Science magazine considers this question as one of the 125 "most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today'' (Science magazine (2005)). Indeed, the successful ... -
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
(2008)This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters.
Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy Interactions with Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets
(2008)This dissertation aims at contributing to the literature investigating the positive and normative framework for monetary policy. It provides an assessment of macroeconomic (i.e. monetary and to some extent also fiscal) ... -
Die Verkehrsunfallflucht nach § 142 StGB als potentiell konkretes Forderungsgefährdungsdelikt: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Systematisierung der Forderungsdelikte
(2009-02-12)Der Tatbestand der Verkehrsunfallflucht nach § 142 StGB soll die möglicherweise bestehende Schadenersatzforderung des Unfallgeschädigten sichern. Aus dem Vergleich zu anderen Forderungsdelikten ergeben sich Merkmale des ... -
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 ... -
Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien: Eine analytische Beschreibung
(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 ... -
Learning in Macroeconomics: An Empirical Approach
(2009-04-23)This thesis explores the role of adaptive learning in explaining empirical phenomena such as the Great Inflation. We show that the historic monetary policy deviated from the optimally recommended policy under learning. ... -
Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Learning
(2009-07-27)The dissertation deals with both a model in which agents with limited information conform to a learning rule, as well as boundedly rational consumers who follow simple rules of thumb. The first case is treated within a ... -
Essays on Matching Markets
(2009-08-12)The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.
The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ... -
Social Preferences and Incentives in the Workplace
(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 ... -
On the Implications of Unobserved Technology and Preference Shifts for Aggregate Labor Demand and Supply
(2009-08-14)The macroeconomic approach to the labor market aims at explaining aggregate labor market phenomena that have been present in many industrialized countries such as the United States or the western European countries in the ... -
Towards a Behavioural Foundation of Macroeconomics
(2009-08-19)Traditional macroeconomic theories often assume that aggregate economic figures originate in the behaviour of individuals who optimise their utility. In doing so, it is casually taken for granted that all agents act ...
