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Essays in Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics
(2009-11-17)
Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ...
Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien: Eine analytische Beschreibung
(2009-04-16)
Zweck von Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien ist es eine untere Grenze von Vermögen zu sichern und dabei trotzdem von steigenden Finanzmärkten zu profitieren. Die Absicherung wird dabei häufig durch eine dynamische ...
Towards a Behavioural Foundation of Macroeconomics
(2009-08-19)
Traditional macroeconomic theories often assume that aggregate economic figures originate in the behaviour of individuals who optimise their utility. In doing so, it is casually taken for granted that all agents act ...
On Dynamic Coherent and Convex Risk Measures: Risk Optimal Behavior and Information Gains
(2009-08-27)
We consider tangible economic problems for agents assessing risk by virtue of dynamic coherent and convex risk measures or, equivalently, utility in terms of dynamic multiple priors and dynamic variational preferences in ...
On the Implications of Unobserved Technology and Preference Shifts for Aggregate Labor Demand and Supply
(2009-08-14)
The macroeconomic approach to the labor market aims at explaining aggregate labor market phenomena that have been present in many industrialized countries such as the United States or the western European countries in the ...
Essays on Matching Markets
(2009-08-12)
The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.
The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ...
The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ...
CPPI Strategies in Discrete Time
(2009-11-17)
In general, the purpose of portfolio insurance strategies is to limit the downside risk of risky portfolios. The constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) is a prominent example of a portfolio insurance strategy. Based ...
Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets
(2009-10-09)
The smooth functioning of financial markets and market efficiency hinge on the ability of market places to limit trading frictions. Liquidity measures the degree of frictions and is an important, if not the most important, ...
Essays in Microeconomics
(2009-11-17)
This thesis contains five papers. Two belong to the field of industrial organization. Both are on innovation and the investment in it. The paper “Persistence of Monopoly and Research Specialization” takes a new look at ...
Wage Setting over the Business Cycle and the Effect of Employment Protection on Human Capital Formation
(2009-09-11)
This dissertation is about labor market institutions and their implications on allocative outcomes. The first chapter studies the effect of the business cycle on the setting of entry-wages, i.e. wages that people get at ...