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Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management
(2010-03-24)
A first wave of contributions to the field of psychology and economics mainly consisted of pointing out problems with traditional economic assumptions and articulating alternatives. By now, research has evolved to what ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2014-10-30)
This thesis covers two main areas of microeconomic theory. The first three chapters are contributions to the theory of mechanism design and the last two chapters contribute to the literature on general equilibrium in markets ...
The Impact of Bounded Rationality on Equity-Linked Life Insurance and Technical Trading
(2014-10-07)
This dissertation deals with the impact of investor behavior for life insurance and technical trading. The first part of this dissertation is concerned with equity-linked life insurance contracts, while the second part of ...
Information Asymmetries: Three Essays in Market Microstructure
(2015-12-21)
This dissertation aims at revisiting existing empirical market microstructure models for the measurement of information asymmetries on financial markets and to develop alternative estimation approaches that (1) reduce ...
Individual Heterogeneities, Social Environment and Life Outcomes
(2015-03-18)
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 ...
Essays on Defined Benefit Pension Insurance and Participating Life Insurance
(2015-12-22)
This dissertation deals with two important types of insurance: defined benefit pension insurance in Chapter 2 and participating life insurance in Chapters 3 and 4.
In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ...
In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ...
Essays on Large Panel Data Models
(2015-06-09)
The standard panel data literature is moving from micro panels, where the cross-section dimension is large and the intertemporal sample size is small, to large panels, where both, the cross-section and the time dimension, ......
Essays in Empirical Finance
(2015-01-08)
The three chapters of this thesis contain contributions to distinct branches of the finance literature---corporate finance, accounting, and household finance. Although the chapters address questions with little overlap, ...
Four Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2015-08-20)
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 ...
Essays on Business Cycles
(2015-07-21)
The recent Great Recession has renewed interest in the role of financial markets and credit in the economy, as well as in the boundaries of monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies that impact macroeconomic developments ...