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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2014-08-20)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in empirical macroeconomics and analyzes important issues related to monetary policy and labor supply. The first chapter deals with the problem of weak identification ... -
On Avoidance and Neglect as Barriers to Informed Decision-Making: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2014-08-07)The thesis comprises three essays on the reasons for and consequences of poorly-informed decision-making.<br /> Chapter 1 investigates active avoidance of information as a source of uninformed decision-making. Next to ... -
Essays on Labor Market Risk and Asset-Based Income Insurance
(2014-05-27)This dissertation contributes to the understanding of wage risk and its implication for the macroeconomy. <br /> The first chapter links differences in unemployment risk between countries to differences in product market ... -
Essays in Public Economics
(2014-05-14)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The first chapter addresses the question how taxes in the financial sector affect the real economy. One set of results concerns the tax burden: Given a fixed public budget ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
(2014-04-17)Economists examine extensive cross sectional and time series data. This information allows them to study economic decision making of households, firms and countries over time or to produce forecasts of financial time series ... -
Sovereign borrowing and sovereign default
(2014-01-23)In the course of the global financial crisis, countries that did not experience a sovereign debt crisis for several decades suddenly faced increasing sovereign default risk spreads as investors started to doubt the ... -
Essays on Convergence and Synchronization
(2014-01-08)Convergence of macroeconomic aggregates and subsequent synchronization of the cyclical features affecting these aggregates have been at the heart of economic debate for quite a while. Especially with the recent developments ... -
Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
(2013-12-19)Guided by the observation that ownership in large U.S. corporations is dispersed rather than concentrated in blocks of control (Berle and Means, 1932) and Jensen and Meckling's (1976) seminal principal-agent theory, much ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-12-20)This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ... -
Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-11-05)This thesis comprises three self-contained chapters that each contributes new insights to this field of empirical macroeconomics.<br /> Chapter 1 examines the role of shocks to consumer misperceptions in explaining ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-09-27)This dissertation tackles three questions theoretically and empirically. The first chapter studies how non-binding default options influence the behavior of consumers. We argue that default options arise in an inherently ... -
Essays in Contract Theory
(2013-09-25)The dissertation consists of three chapters. The fist two chapters use principal-agent models to analyze optimal contract design under the assumption that the contract can induce the agent to acquire relevant private ... -
What Drives Mineral Commodity Markets in the Long Run?
(2013-08-20)This thesis analyzes the long-run development of mineral commodity markets both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.<br /> The first chapter presents a model that replicates long-term trends in non-renewable ... -
Three Essays on the Interaction of Microeconomic Frictions and Macroeconomic Outcomes
(2013-08-26)This dissertation contributes to the ongoing research agenda of trying to understand macroeconomic outcomes in their interdependence with the underlying microeconomic heterogeneity and frictions. <br /> The first chapter ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2013-07-16)Chapter 1 focuses on individuals’ attitudes towards the timing of information. We test a theoretical prediction by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009), that people prefer to get information “clumped together” rather than piecewise. ... -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-17)This thesis consists of five chapters. The first three chapters form an entity and deal with stochastic contest models. The fourth chapter analyzes a problem of strategic experimentation with private payoffs. In the final ... -
Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2013-07-10)This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study two-sided one-to-one matching markets with quasi-linear utility and multi-dimensional ... -
Essays in the Economic Analysis of Corporate and Public Law
(2013-06-06)This thesis contains three chapters: <br /> The first chapter deals with bankruptcy and corporate laws that according to which insider loans to corporations are subordinated in bankruptcy. While moral-hazard related ... -
Strategic Product Placement and Pricing in Markets with Inattentive Consumers
(2013-05-13)This dissertation contains three seperate chapters. <br /> In the first chapter we model a market with hidden product details and systematic consumer biases in which firms have the possibility to unshroud and thereby to ... -
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013-04-02)This thesis consists of three chapters each considering a specific part of firm activity.<br /> Chapter 1 focuses on a company that has to defend herself against a competitor who tries to raid parts of her workforce. This ...
