E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Issue Date
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The Role of External Shocks in Emerging Market Crises
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Essays on Unit Roots and Nonlinear Co-Integrated Processes
(2008)Many macroeconomic and financial key variables such as e.g. consumption, investment, gross domestic product and interest rates, display non-stationary features such as trends or changing variances. A non-stationary ...
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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 ... -
Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems Modeling Price Dynamics: Aspects of Financial Economics in Oil Markets
(2008)In many economic and financial processes mathematical modeling leads to nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems. The interplay of stochastic and nonlinear effects is important under many aspects. Whereas the dynamic ... -
The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
(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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
