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The Relationship between the Resource Curse and Genuine Savings as an Indicator for Weak Sustainability: Theoretical Background and Empirical Evidence
(2017-07-11)
This dissertation deals with the relationship between the Resource Curse (RC) – the empirically proven paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often show slower economic growth – and a measure for the ...
The Impact of Public Policies on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
(2017-07-03)
Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3m sq. kilometers of tree cover, equivalent to 6.4 times the size of Germany, were lost globally due to land cover change. Forest loss often comes with significant social and environmental costs. ...
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Financial Crisis Forecasting
(2018-08-15)
This thesis contributes long-run perspectives to the research on international macroeconomics and macro-finance. Chapters 2 and 3, analyze international financial linkages and their evolution over the past 150 years. Chapter ...
Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behavior
(2018-08-29)
Next to preferences over outcomes, people's subjective beliefs about unobserved states of the world are the central building block of economic models of decision-making. This thesis submits that a more nuanced account of ...
Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
(2018-12-18)
The first three chapters of this thesis are dedicated to empirically examining factors beyond risk preferences that influence decision-making under risk: psychological states (Chapter 2), character traits (Chapter 3), and ...
Three Essays in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics: Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
(2018-12-04)
Interest rates and debt are key policy instruments for monetary and fiscal policy makers and relevant not only for the individual's decision but also for the economy as a whole. This work contains three chapters on the ...
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
(2018-08-15)
Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ...
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2018-08-14)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semi- and nonparametric statistics as well as empirical questions in financial econometrics. My ...
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2018-07-20)
This dissertation contains three chapters in microeconomic theory, which analyze the impact of asymmetry, information acquisition and disclosure in strategic environments, in particular in auctions and elections. In the ...
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(2018-08-15)
What are the conditions for a well-functioning currency union? Since the 1960s', there has been a long stream of literature dedicated to this question. Through studying the historical fixed exchange rate regime of the Gold ...