The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Overconfidence and Loss Aversion in Economic Decision Making
(2012-12-21)In chapter one, we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of ... -
Pricing and Risk Management of Basket FX Derivatives and Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
(2012-10-16)This dissertation deals with pure financial derivatives and financial derivatives which are components of life insurance contracts.<br /> Chapter 1 focuses on the complex situation of basket foreign exchange (FX) products. ... -
Econometric Analysis of Financial Risk and Correlation
(2012-10-10)The contribution of this dissertation is threefold. First, econometric procedures to test for the occurence of asset price bubbles ex post and in real time are proposed. Real time monitoring procedures represent an additional ... -
Four Essays in Empirical Finance
(2012-10-10)In four self-contained essays, this thesis aims at empirically exploring phenomena which emerge as a result of the asymmetric information stemming from the separation of ownership and control. Chapter 1 deals with the ... -
Contracting in the Presence of Uncertainty
(2012-08-24)This thesis concerns the enforcement of contracts in the presence of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is exogenously given and the agents cannot influence its existence. Frequently, however, there is strategic uncertainty ... -
Essays on Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union
(2012-08-01)This thesis consists of three separate, but interlinked chapters on national fiscal policy in a monetary union. Throughout, I employ new Keynesian models that are augmented by the introduction of overlapping generations ... -
Essays in Monetary Theory
(2012-05-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in monetary theory. Each period, agents trade in a day and in a night market. The night market is a standard Walrasian market. In the day market agents are anonymous which prevents ... -
Essays in Empirical Public Finance
(2012-05-09)This thesis consists of three empirical contributions – each of them concerned with aspects of public finances at the sub-national level in the European Union.<br /> Chapter 1 offers an empirical answer to the question of ... -
Essays on Parental Leave, Global Disinflation and Non-Renewable Resources
(2012-03-28)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. In chapter 1 the focus is on the allocation of parental leave between spouses. We modify a model of collective rationality developed by Pierre-André Chiappori and coauthors ... -
Fiscal News, Uncertainty, and the Business Cycle
(2012-02-08)The recent "Great Recession" has thrown macroeconomic research into a state of disarray and has clearly shown the need to go beyond traditional business cycle explanations. However, many of the recently proposed business ...
