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Essays on Defined Benefit Pension Insurance and Participating Life Insurance
(2015-12-22)
This dissertation deals with two important types of insurance: defined benefit pension insurance in Chapter 2 and participating life insurance in Chapters 3 and 4.
In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ...
In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ...
Essays on Large Panel Data Models
(2015-06-09)
The standard panel data literature is moving from micro panels, where the cross-section dimension is large and the intertemporal sample size is small, to large panels, where both, the cross-section and the time dimension, ......
Essays in Empirical Finance
(2015-01-08)
The three chapters of this thesis contain contributions to distinct branches of the finance literature---corporate finance, accounting, and household finance. Although the chapters address questions with little overlap, ...
Four Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2015-08-20)
This thesis consists of four essays which all analyze aspects of the role of private information and information design in different game theoretic settings. In the first chapter, I study the implications of rational ...
Essays on Business Cycles
(2015-07-21)
The recent Great Recession has renewed interest in the role of financial markets and credit in the economy, as well as in the boundaries of monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies that impact macroeconomic developments ...
Essays on Multidimensional Information
(2015-07-10)
This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-10-14)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ...
Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ...
Essays on Financial Stability
(2015-03-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters that analyze the stability of financial institutions. The focus lies on self-fulfilling liquidity crises that are associated with maturity transformation conducted by financial ...
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
(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 ...
Essays in Banking and Finance
(2015-06-29)
This dissertation consists of three chapters covering the development and analysis of three self-standing theoretical models. They all take an informational economics view and analyze important topics related to banking ...