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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 ...
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2020-12-22)
This thesis comprises four self-contained essays in economic theory studying the optimal use of private information in strategic interactions. In all the situations considered, non-monetary as well as dynamic incentives ...
Three Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics
(2021-09-02)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. In these essays, I am interested in the nonparametric regression models and in developing new methods for testing various qualitative ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-06-01)
This thesis consists of four independent research papers. Chapter 1 ("Media Persuasion and Consumption: Evidence from the Dave Ramsey Show") examines whether entertaining mass media programs can influence individual ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-05-25)
The first two chapters of this thesis are connected by an overarching question: Can we use the electricity price to incentivize electricity consumption when it is plentiful and electricity conservation when it is scarce? ...
Essays in Applied and Theoretical Microeconomics
(2022-06-13)
Science is the discovery of knowledge. The process of this discovery is based on two ingredients: hypothesizing – often guided by theoretical abstraction and deductive reasoning – and testing in the form of empirical ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2021-08-30)
This dissertation is composed of four self-contained chapters studying how financial markets affect the governance of public companies. The first chapter shows how large shareholders can engage in governance when there is ...