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Three Essays in International Macroeconomics
(2019-06-18)
This thesis challenges three views in international macroeconomics with important policy implications. The first chapter asks how fiscal policy should be designed in a monetary union and draws novel conclusions. The second ...
Essays on Worker Self Selection and Wage Inequality
(2019-10-10)
This thesis consists of three self contained essays about the influence of worker self selection on rising German wage inequality. Chapter 1 analyses the influence of changing returns to occupational skill on overall wage ...
Essays on Empirical Banking
(2019-11-25)
This dissertation comprises of three essays on empirical banking. The first chapter provides a brief introduction to the areas of empirical banking touched upon throughout the dissertation.
Chapter 2 investigates the ...
Chapter 2 investigates the ...
Essays on Market Microstructure in Finance and Health
(2019-11-26)
The first part of this dissertation studies financial stability of maturity transforming institutions (banks) under variations of capital structure. As banks are financed by more uninsured deposits as opposed to equity, a ...
Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance
(2019-07-31)
This thesis contains three essays belonging to different strands of empirical macroeconomics and finance literature. The first chapter finds that financial frictions can amplify the impact of uncertainty on real consumption ...
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2019-07-12)
This dissertation is built up of four essays in Microeconomic Theory. In these essays, I analyze strategic disclosure of information to a committee and strategic communication of information within an organization. All ...
Four Economic Experiments on Social Preferences
(2019-10-16)
This thesis presents and discusses four different economic experiments investigating the foundations and formation of social preferences. Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 all take a closer look at prosociality. Prosociality ...
Essays on Financial Regulation
(2019-06-27)
This dissertation identifies the effects of regulatory reforms on economic outcomes with a strong focus on real effects. In the first chapter, we analyze the effect of leverage ratio regulation on repo markets exploiting ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2019-04-04)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The common theme of all chapters is the analysis of collective decision problems in which efficient decisions depend on information that is ...
Essays in Public Finance
(2019-07-23)
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on public finance, that is, on the study of government revenue and expenditure. Taxation and public spending reflect society's values, priorities, as well as its ...