Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Neuzugänge
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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 ... -
Reference-Dependent Preferences in Contests and Non-Cognitive Ability in the Labour Market
(2015-10-20)The dissertation includes four individual essays that are laid out over four separate chapters. Following a short overall introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 models the strategic interaction between two agents who engage ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2015-10-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each covering a significant research field in applied microeconomics.<br /> Chapter 1: We study a model of managerial incentive problems where a manager chooses the first ... -
Four Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2015-08-20)This thesis consists of four essays which all analyze aspects of the role of private information and information design in different game theoretic settings. In the first chapter, I study the implications of rational ... -
Essays on Business Cycles
(2015-07-21)The recent Great Recession has renewed interest in the role of financial markets and credit in the economy, as well as in the boundaries of monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies that impact macroeconomic developments ... -
Zur notwendigen Beiladung des „anderen Ehegatten“ gem. § 60 Abs. 3 FGO und der verkannten Gemeinschaftsbesteuerung zusammenveranlagter Ehegatten nach §§ 26, 26b und 32a Abs. 5 EStG i. V. m. § 155 Abs. 1 AO
(2015-10-15)Die vorliegende Untersuchung behandelt die Frage der Anwendbarkeit der notwendigen Beiladung des anderen nichtklagenden Gesellschafters auf die nach ihrer Art weitaus größte Gruppe der "erwerbsmäßigen Personengesellschaften“ ... -
Essays on Multidimensional Information
(2015-07-10)This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the ... -
Essays in Banking and Finance
(2015-06-29)This dissertation consists of three chapters covering the development and analysis of three self-standing theoretical models. They all take an informational economics view and analyze important topics related to banking ... -
Essays on Large Panel Data Models
(2015-06-09)The standard panel data literature is moving from micro panels, where the cross-section dimension is large and the intertemporal sample size is small, to large panels, where both, the cross-section and the time dimension, ...
