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Essays on Beliefs
(2020-12-15)
Beliefs govern how individuals interact with the world around them. Their pivotal role in decision-making processes has led to great interest in how they are formed and arguably of more importance, how they are changed. ...
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 ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2021-01-08)
This dissertation is composed of four chapters with two overarching themes. In the first two chapters, we analyze common-value auctions in which bidders are either uninformed about the number of their competitors or their ...
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 ...
CPPI Strategies in Discrete Time
(2009-11-17)
In general, the purpose of portfolio insurance strategies is to limit the downside risk of risky portfolios. The constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) is a prominent example of a portfolio insurance strategy. Based ...
Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets
(2009-10-09)
The smooth functioning of financial markets and market efficiency hinge on the ability of market places to limit trading frictions. Liquidity measures the degree of frictions and is an important, if not the most important, ...