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Essays in Collective Decision-Making
(2023-08-29)Group decisions are ubiquitous in democratic societies. They range from general elections, and referenda to voting inside various organizations such as political institutions, and corporate boards. The present dissertation ... -
Essays on Social Identity and Moral Behavior
(2023-08-18)This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of individual decision-making by presenting four independent research papers that study the determinants and consequences of individual decision-making.
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Essays on Preference Formation
(2023-08-17)This dissertation centers on cognitive factors like attention, complexity, motivation, and memory, and their role in explaining individual decision-making processes. The study aims to contribute to this literature by ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-08-09)This dissertation explores the relationship between economic actions and relationships in three contexts: friendships in markets, customer relationships in auctions, and village communities during the 1930s Weimar Republic. ... -
Behavioral-Self-Management: A Model Case for Fundamental Empirical Legal Research
(2023-08-08)The empirical evidence seems to overwhelmingly suggest that endowment effects have a significant impact on the private exchange of goods and the functioning of the legal system. Jury decisions, claims for damages and ... -
Essays on the Transition to Sustainable Economies
(2023-07-13)Current modes of production and consumption are incompatible with a state of nature that ensures a safe human existence. How to best transition to sustainable economies? This dissertation studies societal (Chapter 1), ... -
Essays on Mechanism Design without Transfers
(2023-06-29)This thesis comprises four self-contained essays on mechanism design without transfers. Chapters 1 and 2 characterize ex post and posterior implementation in collective decision problems with interdependent values. Chapters ... -
Prices and Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
(2023-05-31)The overarching theme of this thesis is the analysis of the effect of microeconomic heterogeneities on the response of macroeconomic quantities, especially asset prices and inflation, to specific shocks. Conceptually, ... -
Four Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-05-25)Culture -- as defined by the collection of beliefs, norms and preferences shared within social groups -- interacts in complex ways with social and economic outcomes.
It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2023-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in behavioral economics. Employing methods from microeconometrics and experimental economics, I test causal hypotheses with a focus on two applications: the role of ... -
Three Essays on Markets with Constrained Price Mechanisms
(2023-03-15)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters. Their common topic is that they analyze markets in which the prices are not free to adjust, either because of price caps or because of price stickiness.
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Essays in Macroeconomics
(2023-03-07)A central goal of macroeconomic policy is the stabilization of business cycle fluctuations. Stabilization policies, including monetary and fiscal policy, are implemented based on the paradigm that stable economic conditions ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2023-02-14)In my dissertation, I analyze how policymakers can protect employees and consumers from being exploited by firms. In chapter 1, an employer undermines minimum wages by adding non-compete clauses to the workers' employment ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-09-05)Three essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay describes a detailed agent based model of disease transmission and its application to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The second provides methods for uncertainty ... -
Essays on Individual Decisions in Large Collectives
(2022-09-01)This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory on the topic of how individual decisions shape a large collective and how in return the large collective affects the individual behavior. Chapter 1, Voting ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2022-08-29)This thesis is composed of three self-contained chapters that explore how household heterogeneity shapes macroeconomic outcomes, and how this in turn determines the effects of macroeconomic policies.
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-08-26)One major goal of modern societies is to establish a cooperative and cohesive community. Though most people can agree on this goal, it is less clear how it can be achieved. To be able to make informed political changes ... -
Location, Location, Location: Long-run Trends in Housing Markets and Regional Economic Development
(2022-08-01)This thesis tries to make some progress in understanding long-run trends in the spatial behavior of housing markets and economic development. To achieve this, it introduces and analyses new regional long-run data to uncover ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-28)This thesis consists of four independent research papers. Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of consumer myopia on competition and firm behavior. In our model, firms repeatedly sell a primary good and a respective add-on. In ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2022-06-22)This thesis uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods combined with real-world data to explore whether and how we may (or may not) leverage insights from psychology and economics to design simple non-monetary ...
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