The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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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 Labor Economics
Simon, Lenard Paul (2024-02-29)As Western societies age, their working-age populations are declining, resulting in a scarcity of labor. Consequently, these societies face reduced production opportunities while shouldering an increasing burden of elderly ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Kreutzkamp, Sophie Alexandra (2024-02-29)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory and statistics. The first chapter contributes to the literature on information economics. It examines strategic information transmission in ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Cosentino, Melina Maria (2024-02-19)This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters whose main objective lies in providing model-based explanations of and policy recommendations for "real-world" phenomena that attracted my attention throughout ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Preusser, Justus Matthias (2024-02-02)This thesis consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. The first two essays concern allocation problems with correlated information and without transfers. The third essay is on the topic of information in dynamic ... -
Essays in Theoretical Microeconomics
Lahr, Patrick (2024-02-02)This thesis comprises three self-contained essays dealing with the communication and use of information between strategic players. In Chapters 1 and 3, I follow the mechanisms design paradigm, assuming that a player (referred ... -
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 on Public Policy Interactions
Duque Gabriel, Ricardo (2023-10-12)This essay presents three chapters on the macroeconomics effects of monetary and fiscal policies. -
Essays in Applied Macroeconomics
Pessoa, Ana Sofia (2023-10-12)This dissertation consists of three independent research studies. All of them use empirical databases and methods to shed light on important topics. The first chapter provides a full picture of the effects of government ... -
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 Collective Decision-Making
Rachidi, Tobias (2023-08-29)Group decisions are ubiquitous in democratic societies. They range from general elections, and referenda to voting inside various organizations such as political institutions, and corporate boards. The present dissertation ... -
Essays on Social Identity and Moral Behavior
Henkel, Jan Luca (2023-08-18)This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of individual decision-making by presenting four independent research papers that study the determinants and consequences of individual decision-making.
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Essays on Preference Formation
Destan, Cavit Görkem (2023-08-17)This dissertation centers on cognitive factors like attention, complexity, motivation, and memory, and their role in explaining individual decision-making processes. The study aims to contribute to this literature by ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Schäfer, Paul Ivo (2023-08-09)This dissertation explores the relationship between economic actions and relationships in three contexts: friendships in markets, customer relationships in auctions, and village communities during the 1930s Weimar Republic. ... -
Behavioral-Self-Management: A Model Case for Fundamental Empirical Legal Research
Tontrup, Stephan (2023-08-08)The empirical evidence seems to overwhelmingly suggest that endowment effects have a significant impact on the private exchange of goods and the functioning of the legal system. Jury decisions, claims for damages and ... -
Essays on the Transition to Sustainable Economies
Dobkowitz, Sonja Gabriele (2023-07-13)Current modes of production and consumption are incompatible with a state of nature that ensures a safe human existence. How to best transition to sustainable economies? This dissertation studies societal (Chapter 1), ... -
Essays on Mechanism Design without Transfers
Niemeyer, Axel (2023-06-29)This thesis comprises four self-contained essays on mechanism design without transfers. Chapters 1 and 2 characterize ex post and posterior implementation in collective decision problems with interdependent values. Chapters ... -
Prices and Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
Weiß, Maximilian (2023-05-31)The overarching theme of this thesis is the analysis of the effect of microeconomic heterogeneities on the response of macroeconomic quantities, especially asset prices and inflation, to specific shocks. Conceptually, ... -
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.
It, both, shapes the economic and social environment ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Apenbrink, Christian Rudolf (2023-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in behavioral economics. Employing methods from microeconometrics and experimental economics, I test causal hypotheses with a focus on two applications: the role of ...