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Asymmetries in Contests and Women in Academia
(2017-10-30)
This doctoral thesis is devided in three chapters. In chapter one, reference dependence is intruduced in an unfair tournament. Using a standard distribution, two equilibria can be shown that are not considered in liturature ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2021-08-26)
This thesis consists of five chapters that contribute to understanding the consequences, measurement, and origins of heterogeneity in preferences.
Underneath this overarching topic, several different threads are weaving ......
Essays on Information in Politics and Social Decisions
(2020-09-17)
This thesis consists of two parts. The first part consists of two chapters. The second part has one chapter.
How does the information of citizens shape the democratic process? This is the question asked in the ...
How does the information of citizens shape the democratic process? This is the question asked in the ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2017-07-25)
This dissertation consists of four chapters.
In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...
In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-02-21)
This thesis consists of three chapters.
The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ...
The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ...
Three essays in International Macroeconomics: Developments in the euro area crisis
(2017-07-25)
With the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, the euro area has plunged into its deepest crisis since its inception in 1999. Ten years on, the effects are still visible: euro-area GDP in 2017 is below its 2007 level, the ...
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
(2017-06-30)
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ...
Essays on Information Transmission and its Effects in Markets with Imperfect Competition
(2017-05-12)
This thesis consists of four essays in the field of industrial organization. The essays explore questions of information transmission and its influence in markets characterized by imperfect competition.
The first ...
The first ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-01-18)
This thesis studies information aggregation and reputation management in three microeconomic environments.
In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ...
In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ...
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2017-01-24)
In this work I study the impact of different types of frames on decision making behavior. I show that the visual frame of disclosure documents influences investment and beliefs into a mutual fund. In the second part of the ...