The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Three essays in International Macroeconomics: Developments in the euro area crisis
(2017-07-25)With the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, the euro area has plunged into its deepest crisis since its inception in 1999. Ten years on, the effects are still visible: euro-area GDP in 2017 is below its 2007 level, the ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics
(2017-07-03)This thesis contributes to macroeconomics and macroeconometrics. Chapters 2-4 study the role of producer heterogeneity for business cycles and macroeconomic development. Chapters 5-6 provide inference for structural vector ... -
Die Garantenstellung des Betriebsinhabers
(2017-07-03)Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, ob der Betriebsinhaber wegen Unterlassens nach §13 StGB für Straftaten seiner Untergebenen verantwortlich ist. Ausgehend vom Ingerenzgedanken gelangt sie zu der Lösung, dass der ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
(2017-06-30)This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ... -
Essays on Information Transmission and its Effects in Markets with Imperfect Competition
(2017-05-12)This thesis consists of four essays in the field of industrial organization. The essays explore questions of information transmission and its influence in markets characterized by imperfect competition.<br /> The first ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-02-21)This thesis consists of three chapters.<br /> The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2017-01-24)In this work I study the impact of different types of frames on decision making behavior. I show that the visual frame of disclosure documents influences investment and beliefs into a mutual fund. In the second part of the ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-01-18)This thesis studies information aggregation and reputation management in three microeconomic environments.<br /> In the first chapter, I consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2016-12-21)This thesis consists of three independent chapters which deal with macroeconomic topics that drew much attention in the years of financial and economic crisis since 2007.<br /> Chapter 1 analyzes how the availability of ... -
Essays on Heterogeneity and Non-Linearity in Panel Data and Time Series Models
(2016-12-22)In recent years advances in data collection and storage allow us to observe and analyze many financial, economic or environmental processes with higher precision. This in turn reveals new features of the underlying processes ... -
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 ...
