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The roles of nutrition-sensitive interventions and market access in enhancing household food security and resilience in Sierra Leone
(2021-05-17)
Using Sierra Leone – a post-conflict country in West Africa – as a case study, this dissertation addresses pressing issues on how to make smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, mitigate the adverse effects of ...
Essays in Macro-finance
(2021-07-13)
This thesis provides a comparative perspective on current macro-financial phenomena. Understanding the causes and consequences of rare macroeconomic events and secular trends is inherently difficult. Competing theories and ...
Three Essays on the Interconnectedness of Labor Markets and Household Finance
(2021-07-13)
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays that investigate the interconnectedness of labor markets and household finance. The first two chapters focus on differences in workers' labor market experience and ...
Essays on Inflation Expectations, Leaning Against the Wind Policy, and Consumer Bankruptcy
(2021-05-03)
Times of severe economic crisis are, fortunately, rare events. Large recessions, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Great Recession during the late 2000s, have detrimental effects on all economic sectors. ...
Interlinkage between food prices and agricultural wages and implications for farm mechanization in Bangladesh
(2021-12-01)
In recent decades, Bangladesh’s economy has undergone a remarkable structural transformation. Agricultural wages are becoming high while staple food prices are becoming volatile. In the meantime, agriculture has experienced ...
Decisions, Behavior and Societal Challenges
(2021-05-19)
This thesis has two aims, first, to contribute to the scientific understanding of human behavior and decisions, namely, social preferences (here: reciprocity), belief formation, and goal setting and feedback. Second, to ...
Essays on Financial Intermediation and Financial Stability
(2021-08-03)
This thesis analyzes key determinants of financial intermediation and financial stability in three self-contained parts.
The first part explores banks' lending behavior by analyzing the social ties within a ...
The first part explores banks' lending behavior by analyzing the social ties within a ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2021-01-08)
The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2020-05-25)
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied microeconomic theory. A common feature of all three projects is communication about private information in different strategic environments. In Chapter 1, I ...
Essays in Behavioral Microeconomic Theory
(2021-10-21)
In this dissertation, I contribute to the literature on Behavioral Microeconomic Theory by analyzing the consequences of well-established departures from rationality and their remedies in strategic interactions. More ...