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Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
(2013-12-19)
Guided by the observation that ownership in large U.S. corporations is dispersed rather than concentrated in blocks of control (Berle and Means, 1932) and Jensen and Meckling's (1976) seminal principal-agent theory, much ...
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-12-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ...
Essays in Contract Theory
(2013-09-25)
The dissertation consists of three chapters. The fist two chapters use principal-agent models to analyze optimal contract design under the assumption that the contract can induce the agent to acquire relevant private ...