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Four Contributions to Experimental Economics: Binary Choice Experiments
(2010-09-14)
This thesis is about binary decisions participants make in a laboratory environment. For this purpose, laboratory experiments are conducted to investigate effects of individual decision making in a microeconomic context. ...
Essays on Dynamic Mechanism Design
(2010-07-07)
We consider the allocation of one or several units of a good in a dynamic environment. The time horizon is finite and in each period, a random number of potential buyers arrives. In Chapter 1, we study revenue maximization ...
Financial Frictions and Business Cycles
(2010-11-15)
This thesis investigates the business cycle implications of financial frictions for small open economies. Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium frameworks with financial and informational frictions and uncertainty in ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2010-09-21)
The five essays in this thesis study game-theoretic auction models and their application to economic theory.
Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ...
Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ...
On cooperation and trust in strategic games: Behavioral Evidence from the Middle East and Europe
(2010-04-08)
This thesis is about selected issues of cooperation and trust in strategic games.
This first chapter paper investigates the impact of game presentation on cooperation dependent on subject-pool affiliation. Two ...
This first chapter paper investigates the impact of game presentation on cooperation dependent on subject-pool affiliation. Two ...
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 ...
Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems Modeling Price Dynamics: Aspects of Financial Economics in Oil Markets
(2008)
In many economic and financial processes mathematical modeling leads to nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems. The interplay of stochastic and nonlinear effects is important under many aspects. Whereas the dynamic ...
The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
(2008)
According to the common position of the European Council, large installations from the energy industry and other carbon-intensive industries are part of an EU-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) ...
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
(2008)
This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters.
Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ...
Risk Management of Life Insurance Contracts with Interest Rate and Return Guarantees and an Analysis of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Procedure
(2007)
Equity-linked life insurance contracts are an example of theinterplay between insurance and finance. By considering some specific equity-linked life insurance contracts, this thesis mainly studies risk management methods, ...