The Faculty of Law and Economics: Browsing Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Author "Kube, Sebastian"
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Ananyev, Mikhail (2021-07-19)Two topics are covered in this dissertation. One topic is about individual's contribution decisions in social dilemmas situations (situations, when everyone is better off keeping their endowments for themselves but everybody ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Frackenpohl, Gerrit (2014-08-29)One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Radbruch, Jonas (2020-11-25)This dissertation consists of four independent chapters, which all study determinants of human behavior. All chapters leverage insights from behavioral economics or methods from experimental economics. The unifying framework ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Günther, Laurenz Richard Kuno (2023-10-05)This cumulative dissertation examines 1) the extent of substantive representation in Europe, 2) whether misperceptions can explain anti-asylum seeker attitudes, and 3) attitudes toward inherited inequality. -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Freyer, Timo (2023-10-27)This thesis consists of three essays that study the distribution of individual preferences, how they shape social interactions and translate into collective outcomes, and how they interact with the decision environment to ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Ehrmantraut, Laura Helene (2024-03-28)This thesis comprises three chapters, each serving as an independent research paper. Collectively, they all revolve around exploring individual decision making, with particular emphasis on the role of expectations and ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Schwerter, Frederik (2016-05-12)Behavioral economics has improved the understanding of economic phenomena by enriching the understanding of economic decision making with insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Rigorous empirical investigations ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Hillenbrand, Adrian (2017-01-24)In this work I study the impact of different types of frames on decision making behavior. I show that the visual frame of disclosure documents influences investment and beliefs into a mutual fund. In the second part of the ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Strang, Louis Mick (2019-12-20)In Chapter 1 (joint with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Holger Gerhardt, Gerhard Riener, and Frederik Schwerter), I examine asymmetries of intertemporal trade-offs and their implications for the patience of individuals. According ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Schaube, Sebastian (2019-02-27)Few economic decisions are ever made in a social vacuum. Many of us look constantly to others for guidance or for comparison. Our actions might benefit or hurt others, so we use said actions strategically to reward or to ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Zimmermann, Florian (2013-07-16)Chapter 1 focuses on individuals’ attitudes towards the timing of information. We test a theoretical prediction by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009), that people prefer to get information “clumped together” rather than piecewise. ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Chen, Si (2020-09-17)This dissertation presents three chapters revolving around the common theme ‘motivated reasoning.’ Motivated reasoning occurs when individuals tradeoff accurate beliefs and desirable beliefs (Bénabou and Tirole, 2016). ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics
Seithe, Mirko (2011-12-22)The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research ... -
Essays on Collective Action
Pönitzsch, Gert (2014-08-06)This dissertation comprises 3 chapters dealing with collective action. Chapter 1 explores the behavior of individuals who face the provision of a public good that requires a minimal amount of aggregate contributions. Using ... -
Essays on Image Concerns and Norm-Enforcing Behavior
Bašić, Zvonimir (2019-02-27)This thesis consists of four essays which contribute to a better understanding of the behavioral impact of image concerns as well as norm-enforcing behavior. All of them employ experiments, either in a lab setting or a ... -
Experimental Studies on cross-cultural Behaviour between Germans and Chinese
Geng, Hong (2010-02-12)The world has never been so integrated as today. Globalization irresistibly takes place in economic, political and social areas. However, globalization does not bring unification of cultures. On the contrary, the process ... -
Four Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Holler, Radost (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. <br> It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ... -
Interventions for sustainable consumption: Experiments in Behavioral Environmental Economics
Schulze Tilling, Anna (2024-07-24)This dissertation presents three independent research papers, all of which use behavioral and experimental methods to contribute to a better understanding of different interventions to promote more environmentally sustainable ... -
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
Bergerhoff, Jan Niklas (2015-10-20)The dissertation includes four individual essays that are laid out over four separate chapters. Following a short overall introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 models the strategic interaction between two agents who engage ...