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Essays on Adaptive Learning with Applications to Monetary Policy
(2008)
While the concept of rational expectations has become the standard tool of modellingexpectations in macroeconomic models, it has been criticised for its high information and rationality requirements. Moreover, rational ...
Heterogeneity in Economics and Aggregation
(2008)
Heterogeneity is all around us. People differ substantially with respect to their tastes, expectations, and available resources, and firms are heterogeneous in technologies and the quantity or nature of input factors. Since ...
Three Essays on Unit Roots and Nonlinear Co-Integrated Processes
(2008)
Many macroeconomic and financial key variables such as e.g. consumption, investment, gross domestic product and interest rates, display non-stationary features such as trends or changing variances. A non-stationary ...
Evolution in Structured Populations
(2008)
How does social and economic interaction of agents within large populations depend on their perception of the matching-structure?
When do evolutionary dynamics with limited information processing lead to stable ...
Essays in Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics
(2009-11-17)
Next to the orthodox theories on contract design and optimal selling strategies, there is a recent and growing literature investigating how rational firms respond to consumer or employee biases. During the last decade the ...
Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien: Eine analytische Beschreibung
(2009-04-16)
Zweck von Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien ist es eine untere Grenze von Vermögen zu sichern und dabei trotzdem von steigenden Finanzmärkten zu profitieren. Die Absicherung wird dabei häufig durch eine dynamische ...
Towards a Behavioural Foundation of Macroeconomics
(2009-08-19)
Traditional macroeconomic theories often assume that aggregate economic figures originate in the behaviour of individuals who optimise their utility. In doing so, it is casually taken for granted that all agents act ...
On Dynamic Coherent and Convex Risk Measures: Risk Optimal Behavior and Information Gains
(2009-08-27)
We consider tangible economic problems for agents assessing risk by virtue of dynamic coherent and convex risk measures or, equivalently, utility in terms of dynamic multiple priors and dynamic variational preferences in ...
On the Implications of Unobserved Technology and Preference Shifts for Aggregate Labor Demand and Supply
(2009-08-14)
The macroeconomic approach to the labor market aims at explaining aggregate labor market phenomena that have been present in many industrialized countries such as the United States or the western European countries in the ...
Essays on Matching Markets
(2009-08-12)
The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.
The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ...
The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ...