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Strategic Product Placement and Pricing in Markets with Inattentive Consumers
(2013-05-13)
This dissertation contains three seperate chapters.
In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ...
In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ...
Essays in the Economic Analysis of Corporate and Public Law
(2013-06-06)
This thesis contains three chapters:
The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ...
The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ...
What Drives Mineral Commodity Markets in the Long Run?
(2013-08-20)
This thesis analyzes the long-run development of mineral commodity markets both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.
The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...
The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-09-27)
This dissertation tackles three questions theoretically and empirically. The first chapter studies how non-binding default options influence the behavior of consumers. We argue that default options arise in an inherently ...
Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-11-05)
This thesis comprises three self-contained chapters that each contributes new insights to this field of empirical macroeconomics.
Chapter 1 examines the role of shocks to consumer misperceptions in explaining ...
Chapter 1 examines the role of shocks to consumer misperceptions in explaining ...
Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
(2013-12-19)
Guided by the observation that ownership in large U.S. corporations is dispersed rather than concentrated in blocks of control (Berle and Means, 1932) and Jensen and Meckling's (1976) seminal principal-agent theory, much ...
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-12-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ...
Essays in Contract Theory
(2013-09-25)
The dissertation consists of three chapters. The fist two chapters use principal-agent models to analyze optimal contract design under the assumption that the contract can induce the agent to acquire relevant private ...
Essays on the Efficiency of Financial Markets
(2010-12-30)
In the three decades since the term was coined by Eugene F. Fama, the efficient market hypothesis has become the central proposition in financial economics, and, as such, widely accepted by academic scholars. Fama (1970)'s ...
Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing: Liquidity, Idiosyncratic risk, and the Conditional Risk-Return Relation
(2010-08-10)
What kinds of risk do systematically drive stock returns? This question has prompted vast amounts of research and is still one of the main challenges in finance. It has not only been of interest in the finance literature, ...