Individuals differ not only by gender and hair color, they also exhibit heterogeneities in various probably not fully genetically determined dimensions as personality, preferences and skills. Moreover, individuals live in ...

This thesis consists of four essays which all analyze aspects of the role of private information and information design in different game theoretic settings. In the first chapter, I study the implications of rational ...

Current modes of production and consumption are incompatible with a state of nature that ensures a safe human existence. How to best transition to sustainable economies? This dissertation studies societal (Chapter 1), ...

This thesis analyzes the long-run development of mineral commodity markets both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.
The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...

What kinds of risk do systematically drive stock returns? This question has prompted vast amounts of research and is still one of the main challenges in finance. It has not only been of interest in the finance literature, ...

This thesis contains three essays belonging to different strands of empirical macroeconomics and finance literature. The first chapter finds that financial frictions can amplify the impact of uncertainty on real consumption ...

This dissertation consists of three chapters on inference in various non- and semiparametric problems. The chapters are self-contained and can be read separately. Each chapter ends with an appendix that collects the proofs ......

Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ...

Equilibrium search models have provided many insights in the analysis of labor markets and consumer product markets. While much research has been conducted on the basis of random matching, the essays in this thesis put ...

This thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of what lies behind the risk and volatility in financial and macroeconomic outcomes, and how the two are related. The first contribution of the thesis lies in constructing new ...