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Four Contributions to Experimental Economics: Binary Choice Experiments
(2010-09-14)
This thesis is about binary decisions participants make in a laboratory environment. For this purpose, laboratory experiments are conducted to investigate effects of individual decision making in a microeconomic context. ...
Essays on Dynamic Mechanism Design
(2010-07-07)
We consider the allocation of one or several units of a good in a dynamic environment. The time horizon is finite and in each period, a random number of potential buyers arrives. In Chapter 1, we study revenue maximization ...
Financial Frictions and Business Cycles
(2010-11-15)
This thesis investigates the business cycle implications of financial frictions for small open economies. Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium frameworks with financial and informational frictions and uncertainty in ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2010-09-21)
The five essays in this thesis study game-theoretic auction models and their application to economic theory.
Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ...
Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ...
On cooperation and trust in strategic games: Behavioral Evidence from the Middle East and Europe
(2010-04-08)
This thesis is about selected issues of cooperation and trust in strategic games.
This first chapter paper investigates the impact of game presentation on cooperation dependent on subject-pool affiliation. Two ...
This first chapter paper investigates the impact of game presentation on cooperation dependent on subject-pool affiliation. Two ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management
(2010-03-24)
A first wave of contributions to the field of psychology and economics mainly consisted of pointing out problems with traditional economic assumptions and articulating alternatives. By now, research has evolved to what ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2014-10-30)
This thesis covers two main areas of microeconomic theory. The first three chapters are contributions to the theory of mechanism design and the last two chapters contribute to the literature on general equilibrium in markets ...
The Impact of Bounded Rationality on Equity-Linked Life Insurance and Technical Trading
(2014-10-07)
This dissertation deals with the impact of investor behavior for life insurance and technical trading. The first part of this dissertation is concerned with equity-linked life insurance contracts, while the second part of ...
Information Asymmetries: Three Essays in Market Microstructure
(2015-12-21)
This dissertation aims at revisiting existing empirical market microstructure models for the measurement of information asymmetries on financial markets and to develop alternative estimation approaches that (1) reduce ...
Individual Heterogeneities, Social Environment and Life Outcomes
(2015-03-18)
Individuals differ not only by gender and hair color, they also exhibit heterogeneities in various probably not fully genetically determined dimensions as personality, preferences and skills. Moreover, individuals live in ...