The overarching theme of this thesis is the analysis of the effect of microeconomic heterogeneities on the response of macroeconomic quantities, especially asset prices and inflation, to specific shocks. Conceptually, ...

In my dissertation, I analyze how policymakers can protect employees and consumers from being exploited by firms. In chapter 1, an employer undermines minimum wages by adding non-compete clauses to the workers' employment ...

This cumulative dissertation examines 1) the extent of substantive representation in Europe, 2) whether misperceptions can explain anti-asylum seeker attitudes, and 3) attitudes toward inherited inequality.

The empirical evidence seems to overwhelmingly suggest that endowment effects have a significant impact on the private exchange of goods and the functioning of the legal system. Jury decisions, claims for damages and ...

This dissertation explores the relationship between economic actions and relationships in three contexts: friendships in markets, customer relationships in auctions, and village communities during the 1930s Weimar Republic. ...

Culture -- as defined by the collection of beliefs, norms and preferences shared within social groups -- interacts in complex ways with social and economic outcomes.
It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ...

This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of individual decision-making by presenting four independent research papers that study the determinants and consequences of individual decision-making.
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This thesis consists of three essays that study the distribution of individual preferences, how they shape social interactions and translate into collective outcomes, and how they interact with the decision environment to ...

This essay presents three chapters on the macroeconomics effects of monetary and fiscal policies.

This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in behavioral economics. Employing methods from microeconometrics and experimental economics, I test causal hypotheses with a focus on two applications: the role of ...