E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Classification (DDC) "ddc:330"
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Asymmetries in Contests and Women in Academia
Vosen, Agnes (2017-10-30)This doctoral thesis is devided in three chapters. In chapter one, reference dependence is intruduced in an unfair tournament. Using a standard distribution, two equilibria can be shown that are not considered in liturature ... -
Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Learning
Matzke, Christina (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 ... -
Contracting in the Presence of Uncertainty
Lang, Matthias (2012-08-24)This thesis concerns the enforcement of contracts in the presence of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is exogenously given and the agents cannot influence its existence. Frequently, however, there is strategic uncertainty ... -
A contribution to the determinants of total factor productivity growth
Schiffbauer, Marc (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 ... -
CPPI Strategies in Discrete Time
Brandl, Michael (2009-11-17)In general, the purpose of portfolio insurance strategies is to limit the downside risk of risky portfolios. The constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) is a prominent example of a portfolio insurance strategy. Based ... -
Decisions, Behavior and Societal Challenges
Han, Hua-Jing (2021-05-19)This thesis has two aims, first, to contribute to the scientific understanding of human behavior and decisions, namely, social preferences (here: reciprocity), belief formation, and goal setting and feedback. Second, to ... -
Deregulation and Bank Performance: An Empirical Study for the US
Lin, Lin (2006)Recent deregulation tide has greatly changed the landscape of global banking industry. The idea of “universal banking” or “financial supermarket” is gaining appeal in many countries in the world. US, the world’s biggest ... -
Determinants of Human Capital Formation
Stans, Renske Adriana (2020-08-25)Human capital is crucial for individuals’ economic prosperity. As such, differences in human capital are largely responsible for existing inequalities within society, making it essential to understand the determinants of ... -
Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games: Towards a General Perspective
Lauermann, Stephan (2007)"Nature makes no jumps," according to a famous saying - but what about economies? Is economic welfare continuous in the size of the frictions of trading and do the welfare theorems hold approximately when ... -
Econometric Analysis of Financial Risk and Correlation
Homm, Ulrich-Michael (2012-10-10)The contribution of this dissertation is threefold. First, econometric procedures to test for the occurence of asset price bubbles ex post and in real time are proposed. Real time monitoring procedures represent an additional ... -
Economic Behavior in Real Effort Experiments
Eberlein, Marion (2008)Laboratory experiments have gained more and more importance in economics in the last twenty years. Their superior control possibilities are not called in doubt. However, it is often complained that laboratory experiments ...
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Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
Willrodt, Jana (2018-12-18)The first three chapters of this thesis are dedicated to empirically examining factors beyond risk preferences that influence decision-making under risk: psychological states (Chapter 2), character traits (Chapter 3), and ... -
Essays about Option Valuation under Stochastic Interest Rates
Wittke, Manuel (2011-04-06)This thesis consists of three essays on the valuation of options under stochastic interest rates.
In the first essay we examine multivariate models where the stochastic process of a log-normally distributed underlying ... -
Essays in Applied and Theoretical Microeconomics
Russ, Kilian Marco (2022-06-13)Science is the discovery of knowledge. The process of this discovery is based on two ingredients: hypothesizing – often guided by theoretical abstraction and deductive reasoning – and testing in the form of empirical ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Behavioral Economics
Deckers, Thomas (2014-10-07)This thesis is divided into four parts. This abstract provides separate previews for each of those four parts.
Cross-section regressions often examine many candidate regressors. We use multiple testing procedures ... -
Essays in Applied Macroeconomics
Pessoa, Ana Sofia (2023-10-12)This dissertation consists of three independent research studies. All of them use empirical databases and methods to shed light on important topics. The first chapter provides a full picture of the effects of government ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Kulms, Marius (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 Microeconomic Theory
Chen, Bo (2016-07-11)This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Schmitz, Fabian (2023-02-14)In my dissertation, I analyze how policymakers can protect employees and consumers from being exploited by firms. In chapter 1, an employer undermines minimum wages by adding non-compete clauses to the workers' employment ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Cosentino, Melina Maria (2024-02-19)This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters whose main objective lies in providing model-based explanations of and policy recommendations for "real-world" phenomena that attracted my attention throughout ...