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Three essays in International Macroeconomics: Developments in the euro area crisis
(2017-07-25)
With the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, the euro area has plunged into its deepest crisis since its inception in 1999. Ten years on, the effects are still visible: euro-area GDP in 2017 is below its 2007 level, the ...
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
(2017-06-30)
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ...
Essays on Information Transmission and its Effects in Markets with Imperfect Competition
(2017-05-12)
This thesis consists of four essays in the field of industrial organization. The essays explore questions of information transmission and its influence in markets characterized by imperfect competition.
The first ...
The first ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-01-18)
This thesis studies information aggregation and reputation management in three microeconomic environments.
In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ...
In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ...
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2017-01-24)
In this work I study the impact of different types of frames on decision making behavior. I show that the visual frame of disclosure documents influences investment and beliefs into a mutual fund. In the second part of the ...
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Financial Crisis Forecasting
(2018-08-15)
This thesis contributes long-run perspectives to the research on international macroeconomics and macro-finance. Chapters 2 and 3, analyze international financial linkages and their evolution over the past 150 years. Chapter ...
Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behavior
(2018-08-29)
Next to preferences over outcomes, people's subjective beliefs about unobserved states of the world are the central building block of economic models of decision-making. This thesis submits that a more nuanced account of ...
Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
(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 ...
Three Essays in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics: Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
(2018-12-04)
Interest rates and debt are key policy instruments for monetary and fiscal policy makers and relevant not only for the individual's decision but also for the economy as a whole. This work contains three chapters on the ...
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
(2018-08-15)
Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ...