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Four Essays in Equity-Linked Life and Pension Insurance: Financial Analysis of Surrender Guarantees, Pension Guarantee Funds and Pension Retirement Plans
(2014-10-07)
In this dissertation we study three very important types of insurance, equity-linked life insurance with surrender guarantees, pension insurance and the insurance provided by (pension) insurance guarantee funds.
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Essays on Contracts, Mechanisms and Information Revelation
(2014-11-14)
This dissertation comprises three essays dealing with topics from microeconomic theory. The first chapter is a contribution to the literature on the economics of privacy. During the last decade, an increasing number of ...
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Behavioral Economics
(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 ...
Cross-section regressions often examine many candidate regressors. We use multiple testing procedures ...
On Avoidance and Neglect as Barriers to Informed Decision-Making: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2014-08-07)
The thesis comprises three essays on the reasons for and consequences of poorly-informed decision-making.
Chapter 1 investigates active avoidance of information as a source of uninformed decision-making. Next to ...
Chapter 1 investigates active avoidance of information as a source of uninformed decision-making. Next to ...
Essays in Public Economics
(2014-05-14)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The first chapter addresses the question how taxes in the financial sector affect the real economy. One set of results concerns the tax burden: Given a fixed public budget ...
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2014-04-17)
Economists examine extensive cross sectional and time series data. This information allows them to study economic decision making of households, firms and countries over time or to produce forecasts of financial time series ...
Essays on Labor Market Risk and Asset-Based Income Insurance
(2014-05-27)
This dissertation contributes to the understanding of wage risk and its implication for the macroeconomy.
The first chapter links differences in unemployment risk between countries to differences in product market ...
The first chapter links differences in unemployment risk between countries to differences in product market ...
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 on Collective Action
(2014-08-06)
This dissertation comprises 3 chapters dealing with collective action. Chapter 1 explores the behavior of individuals who face the provision of a public good that requires a minimal amount of aggregate contributions. Using ...
Sovereign borrowing and sovereign default
(2014-01-23)
In the course of the global financial crisis, countries that did not experience a sovereign debt crisis for several decades suddenly faced increasing sovereign default risk spreads as investors started to doubt the ...