This dissertation deals with auctions and other, financial market mechanisms, and how they work in real life situations. Such mechanisms have been extensively studied in economics and many elegant results have been gained. ...

Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ...

This dissertation aims at revisiting existing empirical market microstructure models for the measurement of information asymmetries on financial markets and to develop alternative estimation approaches that (1) reduce ...