Chapter 1 proposes simple and robust diagnostic tests for spatial dependence, specifically for spatial error autocorrelation and spatial lag dependence. The idea of our tests is to reformulate the testing problem such that ...

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research ...

This thesis contains three chapters, each dealing with a specific macroeconomic topic. The first chapter analyzes the relationship between bilateral trade flows, trade openness, and asset holdings in a three-country ...

The first two chapters of this thesis are situated in a branch of the literature that is most often referred to as the economic analysis of contract law. This literature, that perhaps began blooming with the seminal work ...

From a global perspective, this dissertation illustrates the consequences of choosing a particular balance between completeness and manageability in terms of model building, both in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics. ...

Over the last thirty years findings from economic experiments substantially contributed to a better understanding of a wide variety of phenomena in different branches of economics. In areas like industrial organization, ...

The financial crisis since 2007 has drastically demonstrated the importance of banking regulation. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, we present mathematical methods for the treatment of double default effects ...

In three essays covering three dimensions of the working lives of employees I aim to contribute to the study of labor economics. While the first chapter looks at migration decisions as part of an optimal work-location plan ...

This dissertation aims at continuing the theoretical and empirical analysis in international macroeconomics with an emphasis on improving the quantitative performance of New Open Economy Macroeconomic models. Chapter 1 ...

In strategic decision making, the agents' decisions depend crucially on the information they have. Less information means more uncertainty about the other agents' possible behavior, making strategic decisions more complex. ...