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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(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
(2020-01-14)
What determines human behavior? This seemingly simple question is at the core of economics and the social sciences more generally. Yet, it is one of the most difficult questions to answer for at least two reasons: First, ...
Three Essays in Macroeconomics: Implications of the Great Recession for Fiscal and Monetary Policy
(2020-02-06)
The Great Recession prompted several governments and central banks in advanced economies to take exceptional measures, whose consequences are still visible today. In particular, two developments seem to be noteworthy. ...
Essays in Income and Wealth Inequality
(2020-12-09)
The distribution of income and wealth across households in the U.S. has changed dramatically since the 1950s. How are rising income and wealth inequality linked? This thesis aims at providing new insights into the relationship ...
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2020-12-22)
This thesis comprises four self-contained essays in economic theory studying the optimal use of private information in strategic interactions. In all the situations considered, non-monetary as well as dynamic incentives ...
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 ...
Die Konkurrenz zwischen Gewährleistungsrecht und Informationspflicht
(2018-07-17)
Schon vor der Schuldrechtsreform wurde die Konkurrenz zwischen Gewährleistungsrecht und Informationspflicht heftig diskutiert. Seit der Schuldrechtsreform sind neue Meinungen hinzugetreten. Zwar ist an der bereits vor der ...
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 ...