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Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2020-09-17)
This dissertation presents three chapters revolving around the common theme ‘motivated reasoning.’ Motivated reasoning occurs when individuals tradeoff accurate beliefs and desirable beliefs (Bénabou and Tirole, 2016). ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-11-25)
This dissertation consists of four independent chapters, which all study determinants of human behavior. All chapters leverage insights from behavioral economics or methods from experimental economics. The unifying framework ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-09-05)
Three essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay describes a detailed agent based model of disease transmission and its application to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The second provides methods for uncertainty ...
Essays on Individual Decisions in Large Collectives
(2022-09-01)
This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory on the topic of how individual decisions shape a large collective and how in return the large collective affects the individual behavior. Chapter 1, Voting ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-02-03)
This dissertation revolves around two themes: individuals' perceptions of reality and their beliefs about what characterizes a good, fair, and just world. It presents four independent research papers. Chapter 1 ("Shallow ...
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2021-09-21)
This thesis consists of three self-contained papers: Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency, Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design, and Allocation with Correlated Information: Too ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-01-14)
What determines human behavior? This seemingly simple question is at the core of economics and the social sciences more generally. Yet, it is one of the most difficult questions to answer for at least two reasons: First, ...
Three Essays in Macroeconomics: Implications of the Great Recession for Fiscal and Monetary Policy
(2020-02-06)
The Great Recession prompted several governments and central banks in advanced economies to take exceptional measures, whose consequences are still visible today. In particular, two developments seem to be noteworthy. ...
Essays in Income and Wealth Inequality
(2020-12-09)
The distribution of income and wealth across households in the U.S. has changed dramatically since the 1950s. How are rising income and wealth inequality linked? This thesis aims at providing new insights into the relationship ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-03-22)
The first essay investigates the role social environment plays in the development of life satisfaction during childhood and adolescence. Life satisfaction is high among children and declines during adolescence. This decline ...