The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Informational externalities and strategic interaction
(2016-12-13)This thesis studies the role of uncertainty and informational externalities in strategic interaction. In the presence of informational externalities, the incentives of strategic agents to invest in innovative and risky ... -
Transparenz und Undurchsichtigkeit: Untersuchung über die Leistungsfähigkeit der Diskurstheorie zur Begründung strafrechtlicher Normen
(2016-11-25)Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die Diskurstheorie die praktische Autorität des Strafrechts begründen kann. Zunächst ist die These aufgestellt, dass strafrechtliche Normen ausschließlich und inhaltsunabhängig ... -
Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization
(2016-11-24)How do consumers make consumption decisions if the acquisition of product information is difficult? What determines their search behavior and ultimately their choices? In three essays I examine the way in which the answers ... -
A Contribution to Functional Data Analysis
(2016-11-18)Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) approximates a sample curve as a linear combination of orthogonal basis functions. It is often possible to describe the essential parts of the variations of functional data ... -
Income Risk, Self-Insurance and Public Policies: Consequences for Aggregate Fluctuations and Wealth Inequality
(2016-10-20)This thesis investigates quantitatively the distributional and aggregate outcomes that result from the interaction of income risk, self-insurance motives and public policies.<br /> The first chapter assesses the business ... -
Essays on Dynamic Sales and Matching Mechanisms
(2016-10-20)This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in dynamic mechanism design and dynamic optimization.<br /> The first chapter studies optimal contract design by a firm which faces consumers who know how important the good ... -
Three Essays in Macroeconometrics
(2016-10-20)Motivated by the recent availability of extensive macroeconomic data sets, this thesis consists of three independent chapters that examine the ways to approach to this issue from various angles. <br /> The first chapter ... -
Heterogeneity in Household Portfolios and its Implication for Fiscal and Monetary Policy
(2016-09-14)A household's portfolio generally consists of non-tradable and tradable assets. The most important non-tradable asset is human capital. It is the primary source of income for most households and at the same time subject ... -
Behavioral effects of corporate governance reforms and their legal implications
(2016-12-06)Empirical research provides important insights into legal questions within the realm of corporate governance law. My first research project serves as an example of empirical research informing policy choices. My second ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2016-07-19)This thesis consists of five chapters on topics in mechanism design and voting.<br /> In Chapter 1, we study a committee deciding collectively whether to accept a given proposal or to maintain the status quo. Committee ... -
Four Essays on Economic Preferences
(2016-08-29)This thesis consists of four independent chapters. Each chapter contributes experimental evidence to our knowledge on economic preferences. Chapter one shows that a preference for truth-telling per se is even more prevalent ... -
On the Formation and Economic Implications of Subjective Beliefs and Individual Preferences
(2016-08-29)The conceptual framework of neoclassical economics posits that individual decision-making processes can be represented as maximization of some objective function. In this framework, people's goals and desires are expressed ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2016-07-11)This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head ... -
Essays on Information and Communication in Microeconomic Theory
(2016-06-21)This dissertation studies the role of information in three different microeconomic environments and introduces for each an independent theoretical model.<br /> In the first chapter, we consider a deliberation and voting ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2016-05-12)Behavioral economics has improved the understanding of economic phenomena by enriching the understanding of economic decision making with insights from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Rigorous empirical investigations ... -
Essays in Statistics
(2016-03-29)This thesis is comprised of several contributions to the field of mathematical statistics, particularly with regards to computational issues of Bayesian statistics and functional data analysis.<br /> The first two chapters ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2016-04-18)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied and theoretical econometrics. The first chapter presents a Lagrange Multiplier test for detecting shock triggered asymmetries in time series and investigates ... -
Essays on Financial Stability
(2016-02-01)This thesis examines self-fulfilling liquidity crises that are associated with maturity and liquidity transformation conducted by financial intermediaries such as banks. It consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, ... -
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.<br /> In Chapter 2, a termination rule based on a critical ... -
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 ...
