The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Essays in Economic Theory
(2019-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The common theme of all chapters is the analysis of collective decision problems in which efficient decisions depend on information that is ... -
Das semipräsidiale Regierungssystem der Weimarer Republik im Vergleich mit dem heutigen türkischen Regierungssystem nach den Verfassungsänderungen in 2007 und 2017
(2019-03-22)Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dieser Frage, ob die Weimarer Reichsverfassung und die Verfassung von 1982 der Türkei durch die Verfassungswirklickeit bezüglich der Stellung des Staatsoberhauptes eine Wandlung erlebt ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2019-02-27)Few economic decisions are ever made in a social vacuum. Many of us look constantly to others for guidance or for comparison. Our actions might benefit or hurt others, so we use said actions strategically to reward or to ... -
Essays on Image Concerns and Norm-Enforcing Behavior
(2019-02-27)This thesis consists of four essays which contribute to a better understanding of the behavioral impact of image concerns as well as norm-enforcing behavior. All of them employ experiments, either in a lab setting or a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
(2018-08-15)Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2018-08-14)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semi- and nonparametric statistics as well as empirical questions in financial econometrics. My ... -
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 ... -
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 in Microeconomic Theory
(2018-07-20)This dissertation contains three chapters in microeconomic theory, which analyze the impact of asymmetry, information acquisition and disclosure in strategic environments, in particular in auctions and elections. In the ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(2018-08-15)What are the conditions for a well-functioning currency union? Since the 1960s', there has been a long stream of literature dedicated to this question. Through studying the historical fixed exchange rate regime of the Gold ... -
Four Essays in Auction Theory and Contest Theory
(2018-07-06)This thesis consists of four essays that belong to the literature on the theory of auctions and the theory of contests. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are devoted to the research on auctions and study the role of symmetry in ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Integration, Demographic Aging and Automation Technology
(2018-07-23)This thesis combines work on three important long-run trends and their macroeconomic implications: Financial integration, demographic aging and the use of automation technology in the production process. The first chapter ... -
Die Systematik der Voraussetzungen einer Gläubigeranfechtung: Ein Diskussionsvorschlag zur Vermeidung von Kasuistik
(2018-06-27)Die Arbeit betrachtet die Voraussetzungen einer Gläubigeranfechtung aus einem alternativen Blickwinkel, der sich von der traditionell herrschenden Sichtweise grundlegend unterscheidet. Die Arbeit setzt sich dabei zum Ziel, ... -
Contributions to Functional Data Analysis With a Focus on Points of Impact in Functional Regression
(2018-05-16)The focus of this thesis is on the estimation of an unknown number of unknown specific locations (points of impact) at which a functional predictor has a specific effect on a real valued dependent variable.<br /> Two general ... -
Asymmetries in Contests and Women in Academia
(2017-10-30)This doctoral thesis is devided in three chapters. In chapter one, reference dependence is intruduced in an unfair tournament. Using a standard distribution, two equilibria can be shown that are not considered in liturature ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries
(2017-07-28)This thesis consists of three explorations on macroeconomic policies in developing countries. <br /> The first essay evaluates the desirability of public capital investment, taking China as the study subject. Based on an ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
(2017-07-25)This dissertation consists of four chapters. <br /> In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...
