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Essays on Uncertainty in Labor and Financial Markets
(2026-07-24)This dissertation empirically studies the role of economic uncertainty in shaping the option value of labor market opportunities. The first chapter documents a sharp rise in CEO age at appointment since 2000 and attributes ... -
Data, Inequality, and Oil
(2026-07-24)The literary work describes how oil supply disruptions affect households and the extent to which monetary policy can stabilize. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2026-07-21)This dissertation presents three independent research papers in applied microeconomics. The chapters study how beliefs, institutional conditions, and psychological states shape policy preferences, occupational choices, and ... -
Essays in International Economics and Macrofinance
(2026-07-10)Economic interdependence increasingly has political implications. At the international level, the tides of global trade and finance are currently shifting, with countries like the U.S. and China increasingly leveraging ... -
Essays on Macrofinance and Inflation
(2026-07-08)This dissertation studies how financial balance sheets - of investors, banks, and households - transmit macroeconomic shocks and household decisions into real outcomes. It consists of three independent chapters. <br/> The ... -
Essays on Spatial Inequality, Mobility, and Labor Market Policy
(2026-07-03)This dissertation consists of three essays on spatial inequality, worker mobility, and labor market policy. The first chapter studies how workers' careers differ depending on the local labor market in which they enter ... -
Essays on Human Capital
(2026-05-11)This thesis comprises three essays that examine how human capital shapes economic outcomes across three distinct dimensions: as a motive for individual choices, as a determinant of industry composition, and as a measure ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2026-05-11)This dissertation examines how informational framing, cognitive complexity, and political identity shape beliefs and subsequent behavior. Across four chapters based on experimental studies, it investigates fairness judgments ... -
Pflichten gegenüber sich selbst und selbstbezogene Handlungen im System der Gegenseitigen Pflichten
(2026-04)In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir die Beziehung zwischen Verhaltensweisen, die ausschließlich durch interne Rechtsvorschriften geregelt sind, und solchen, die auch externen Rechtsvorschriften unterliegen. Während erstere ... -
Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics
(2026-03-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters on inference in various non- and semiparametric problems. The chapters are self-contained and can be read separately. Each chapter ends with an appendix that collects the proofs ... -
Datenaltruistische Organisationen
(2025-09-01)Datenaltruistische Organisationen versprechen das Teilen von personenbezogenen wie nicht-personenbezogenen Daten für "Ziele von allgemeinem Interesse" zu erleichtern. Die hierfür zu knüpfenden Rechtsbeziehungen zwischen ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2026-02-03)This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters of original research – two of which are single-authored and one with a fellow PhD student – and contributes predominantly to behavioral economics and experimental ... -
Essays in Bargaining, Auctions and Payments
(2026-01-27)This dissertation studies three game-theoretical models in bargaining, auctions, and payment systems. <br/> The first chapter examines reputational bargaining when one party may possess full information about the rationality ... -
Overconfidence and Prejudice
(2025-06-18)We develop a model of multi-dimensional misspecified learning in which an overconfident agent learns about groups in society from observations of his and others' successes. We show that the average person sees his group ... -
Forderungskollision: Die Gläubigerkonkurrenz im deutschen Privatrecht
(2025)Wenn ein Schuldner nicht all seine Gläubiger befriedigen kann oder muss, kollidieren ihre Forderungen. Lässt die Rechtsordnung die Gläubiger konkurrieren, weil sie hofft, dass alles gut gehen wird, oder weil sie einen ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2025-10-08)One of the central tasks society assigns to economists is to improve tax and social transfer systems. This requires not only thorough theoretical thinking about the optimal design of policies to reach the policy objective, ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2025-10-01)Understanding the role of public policy in shaping individual behavior, and thus broader economic outcomes, is fundamental to the design of effective policy interventions. Individuals do not make decisions in a vacuum: ... -
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Labor Market Risk
(2025-09-30)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays that examine the macroeconomic consequences of labor market risk. The first two chapters focus on heterogeneity in labor market risk and its consequences on life-cycle ... -
Essays on Labor Market Policy
(2025-09-02)Optimal Short-Time Work Policy in Recessions: <br/> Short-time work (STW) is a subsidy program linked to hours reduction that has been widely used around Europe to combat job losses in the Great Recession and the COVID-19 ... -
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement
(2024-03-13)We compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs by applying an event study design combined with propensity score matching and reweighting to administrative data from Germany. After a mass layoff, women's ...
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