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Essays on Multidimensional Information
(2015-07-10)
This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-10-14)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ...
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ...
Essays on Financial Stability
(2015-03-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters that analyze the stability of financial institutions. The focus lies on self-fulfilling liquidity crises that are associated with maturity transformation conducted by financial ...
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
(2015-10-20)
The dissertation includes four individual essays that are laid out over four separate chapters. Following a short overall introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 models the strategic interaction between two agents who engage ...
Essays in Banking and Finance
(2015-06-29)
This dissertation consists of three chapters covering the development and analysis of three self-standing theoretical models. They all take an informational economics view and analyze important topics related to banking ...
On the Formation and Economic Implications of Subjective Beliefs and Individual Preferences
(2016-08-29)
The conceptual framework of neoclassical economics posits that individual decision-making processes can be represented as maximization of some objective function. In this framework, people's goals and desires are expressed ...
Four Essays on Economic Preferences
(2016-08-29)
This thesis consists of four independent chapters. Each chapter contributes experimental evidence to our knowledge on economic preferences. Chapter one shows that a preference for truth-telling per se is even more prevalent ...
Essays on Dynamic Sales and Matching Mechanisms
(2016-10-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in dynamic mechanism design and dynamic optimization.
The first chapter studies optimal contract design by a firm which faces consumers who know how important the good ...
The first chapter studies optimal contract design by a firm which faces consumers who know how important the good ...
Three Essays in Macroeconometrics
(2016-10-20)
Motivated by the recent availability of extensive macroeconomic data sets, this thesis consists of three independent chapters that examine the ways to approach to this issue from various angles.
The first chapter ...
The first chapter ...
Income Risk, Self-Insurance and Public Policies: Consequences for Aggregate Fluctuations and Wealth Inequality
(2016-10-20)
This thesis investigates quantitatively the distributional and aggregate outcomes that result from the interaction of income risk, self-insurance motives and public policies.
The first chapter assesses the business ...
The first chapter assesses the business ...