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Essays on Auctions, Tournaments, and Imperfect Competition
(2011-09-30)
This thesis is a collection of essays in applied microeconomic theory. It is composed of three parts.
Part I (Procurement of innovation: tournaments vs auctions) deals with the procurement of innovations and compares ...
Part I (Procurement of innovation: tournaments vs auctions) deals with the procurement of innovations and compares ...
Essays about Option Valuation under Stochastic Interest Rates
(2011-04-06)
This thesis consists of three essays on the valuation of options under stochastic interest rates.
In the first essay we examine multivariate models where the stochastic process of a log-normally distributed underlying ...
In the first essay we examine multivariate models where the stochastic process of a log-normally distributed underlying ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(2011-12-12)
The first two chapters of this thesis are situated in a branch of the literature that is most often referred to as the economic analysis of contract law. This literature, that perhaps began blooming with the seminal work ...
Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2011-10-12)
This thesis consists of four chapters. The first three chapters analyze contest models in continuous time. Differing from most of previous literature, we assume that each contestant observes his own progress and can adjust ...
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Investor Behavior
(2011-04-14)
The first chapter deals with an alternative asset pricing test. According to asset pricing theory, in expectation there is a positive reward for taking risks. However, using realized returns, this relation is frequently ...
Three Essays on the Interaction of Microeconomic Frictions and Macroeconomic Outcomes
(2013-08-26)
This dissertation contributes to the ongoing research agenda of trying to understand macroeconomic outcomes in their interdependence with the underlying microeconomic heterogeneity and frictions.
The first chapter ...
The first chapter ...
Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-10)
This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study two-sided one-to-one matching markets with quasi-linear utility and multi-dimensional ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-04-02)
This thesis consists of three chapters each considering a specific part of firm activity.
Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...
Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2013-07-16)
Chapter 1 focuses on individuals’ attitudes towards the timing of information. We test a theoretical prediction by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009), that people prefer to get information “clumped together” rather than piecewise. ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-17)
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first three chapters form an entity and deal with stochastic contest models. The fourth chapter analyzes a problem of strategic experimentation with private payoffs. In the final ...