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Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2011-10-12)
This thesis consists of four chapters. The first three chapters analyze contest models in continuous time. Differing from most of previous literature, we assume that each contestant observes his own progress and can adjust ...
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Investor Behavior
(2011-04-14)
The first chapter deals with an alternative asset pricing test. According to asset pricing theory, in expectation there is a positive reward for taking risks. However, using realized returns, this relation is frequently ...
Three Essays on the Interaction of Microeconomic Frictions and Macroeconomic Outcomes
(2013-08-26)
This dissertation contributes to the ongoing research agenda of trying to understand macroeconomic outcomes in their interdependence with the underlying microeconomic heterogeneity and frictions.
The first chapter ...
The first chapter ...
Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-10)
This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study two-sided one-to-one matching markets with quasi-linear utility and multi-dimensional ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-04-02)
This thesis consists of three chapters each considering a specific part of firm activity.
Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...
Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(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. ...
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-17)
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first three chapters form an entity and deal with stochastic contest models. The fourth chapter analyzes a problem of strategic experimentation with private payoffs. In the final ...
Strategic Product Placement and Pricing in Markets with Inattentive Consumers
(2013-05-13)
This dissertation contains three seperate chapters.
In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ...
In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ...
Essays in the Economic Analysis of Corporate and Public Law
(2013-06-06)
This thesis contains three chapters:
The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ...
The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ...
What Drives Mineral Commodity Markets in the Long Run?
(2013-08-20)
This thesis analyzes the long-run development of mineral commodity markets both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.
The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...
The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ...