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Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games: Towards a General Perspective
(2007)
"Nature makes no jumps," according to a famous saying - but what about economies? Is economic welfare continuous in the size of the frictions of trading and do the welfare theorems hold approximately when ...
Information and Incentives in Organizations
(2007)
This thesis asks about the value of information for providing incentives in principal agent models with hidden action and limited liability. The classical literature deals with information in the form of signals that the ...
Market Behavior and Market Interaction under Incomplete Information: Theory and Empirical Implications
(2007)
Chapter 1 deals with the question of how buyers behave in the presence of uncertainty about the distribution of prices. To this end, we consider a model of a big, decentralized auction market in which two types of agents ......
Rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Unterscheidung von Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit in Spanien, Mexiko, Argentinien, Kolumbien und Deutschland
(2008)
In der Strafrechtspraxis ist die schwierige Unterscheidung zwischen Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit äußerst bedeutsam. Ohne Vorsatz oder Fahrlässigkeit des vermeintlichen Täters gibt es keine Strafbarkeit (§ 15 StGB), ohne ...
Deregulation and Bank Performance: An Empirical Study for the US
(2006)
Recent deregulation tide has greatly changed the landscape of global banking industry. The idea of “universal banking” or “financial supermarket” is gaining appeal in many countries in the world. US, the world’s biggest ...
Essays in Equilibrium Search Theory
(2006)
Equilibrium search models have provided many insights in the analysis of labor markets and consumer product markets. While much research has been conducted on the basis of random matching, the essays in this thesis put ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Frictions
(2006)
Considerable empirical evidence has demonstrated strong linkages between the financial sector and the real production sector of an economy. A huge theoretical literature has emerged since 1970s for the understanding of ...
Three Essays on Political Institutions, Inequality, and Economic Growth
(2006)
Why are some countries much richer than others? Why do some economies grow faster than others? Economists have asked these trite yet crucial questions for more than one century. In recent years, more and more economists ...
Lévy Processes in Finance: The Change of Measure and Non-Linear Dependence
(2005)
This thesis deals with applications of Lévy processes in the field of mathematical finance. The class of Lévy processes generalizes the widely used Brownian motion in the sense that the distribution of their increments can ...