The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Bounded Rationality on Equity-Linked Life Insurance and Technical Trading
(2014-10-07)This dissertation deals with the impact of investor behavior for life insurance and technical trading. The first part of this dissertation is concerned with equity-linked life insurance contracts, while the second part of ... -
Four Essays in Equity-Linked Life and Pension Insurance: Financial Analysis of Surrender Guarantees, Pension Guarantee Funds and Pension Retirement Plans
(2014-10-07)In this dissertation we study three very important types of insurance, equity-linked life insurance with surrender guarantees, pension insurance and the insurance provided by (pension) insurance guarantee funds.<br /> In ... -
Essays in Applied Econometrics and Behavioral Economics
(2014-10-07)This thesis is divided into four parts. This abstract provides separate previews for each of those four parts.<br /> Cross-section regressions often examine many candidate regressors. We use multiple testing procedures ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-08-29)One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing ... -
Essays on Collective Action
(2014-08-06)This dissertation comprises 3 chapters dealing with collective action. Chapter 1 explores the behavior of individuals who face the provision of a public good that requires a minimal amount of aggregate contributions. Using ... -
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. ...
