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Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Learning
(2009-07-27)
The dissertation deals with both a model in which agents with limited information conform to a learning rule, as well as boundedly rational consumers who follow simple rules of thumb. The first case is treated within a ...
Essays on Dual Risk Measures and the Asymptotic Term Structure
(2009-08-27)
This dissertation covers two distinct topics in the field of financial economics: risk measurement and the term structure of interest rates.
The phenomenon of risk plays a ubiquitous role in finance and insurance as ...
The phenomenon of risk plays a ubiquitous role in finance and insurance as ...
Sustainable tourism and the influence of privatization in protected area management: A case of Kinabalu Park, Malaysia
(2008)
The worldwide evolution of park management has revealed the dual roles of parks in meeting nature conservation and social objectives. Sustainable tourism is able to support these roles by providing financial support to ...
A Micro-Economic Analysis of Farm Restructuring in the Khorezm Region, Uzbekistan
(2008)
Ever since its independence several reforms in agriculture of Uzbekistan have been taken as part of a gradual transition process towards a market-based economy. These processes include: market liberalization, reformation ...
Econometric specification of constrained optimization models
(2007)
This thesis provides a general estimation framework for econometric specification of constrained optimization models, with special attention to problems arising when (i) inequality constraints are present in the constrained ...
Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems Modeling Price Dynamics: Aspects of Financial Economics in Oil Markets
(2008)
In many economic and financial processes mathematical modeling leads to nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems. The interplay of stochastic and nonlinear effects is important under many aspects. Whereas the dynamic ...
The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
(2008)
According to the common position of the European Council, large installations from the energy industry and other carbon-intensive industries are part of an EU-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) ...
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
(2008)
This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters.
Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ...
Risk Management of Life Insurance Contracts with Interest Rate and Return Guarantees and an Analysis of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Procedure
(2007)
Equity-linked life insurance contracts are an example of theinterplay between insurance and finance. By considering some specific equity-linked life insurance contracts, this thesis mainly studies risk management methods, ...
Essays on the Effects of Information on Incentives and on People’s Awareness and Assessment of Biases
(2007)
The first two essays deal with the interaction between intermediate information and incentives when information asymmetries are present. While in the first essay, individuals’ types can be private information, in the second ...