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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 ...
Die Garantenstellung des Betriebsinhabers
(2017-07-03)
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, ob der Betriebsinhaber wegen Unterlassens nach §13 StGB für Straftaten seiner Untergebenen verantwortlich ist. Ausgehend vom Ingerenzgedanken gelangt sie zu der Lösung, dass der ...
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 ...
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 ...