The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomics and Political Economy
(2012-01-04)This dissertation attempts in four essays to contribute to economic research in two separate fields, and is therefore divided into two self-contained parts.<br /> Part I (Dynamic Macroeconomics) is rooted in the modern ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics
(2011-12-22)The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2012-01-16)This thesis contains three chapters, each dealing with a specific macroeconomic topic. The first chapter analyzes the relationship between bilateral trade flows, trade openness, and asset holdings in a three-country ... -
Essays in Law and Economics
(2011-12-12)The first two chapters of this thesis are situated in a branch of the literature that is most often referred to as the economic analysis of contract law. This literature, that perhaps began blooming with the seminal work ... -
Four Essays in Economic Theory
(2011-10-12)This thesis consists of four chapters. The first three chapters analyze contest models in continuous time. Differing from most of previous literature, we assume that each contestant observes his own progress and can adjust ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2011-10-18)In three essays covering three dimensions of the working lives of employees I aim to contribute to the study of labor economics. While the first chapter looks at migration decisions as part of an optimal work-location plan ... -
Four Essays in Econometrics and Macroeconomics
(2011-09-30)Chapter 1 proposes simple and robust diagnostic tests for spatial dependence, specifically for spatial error autocorrelation and spatial lag dependence. The idea of our tests is to reformulate the testing problem such that ... -
Essays on Auctions, Tournaments, and Imperfect Competition
(2011-09-30)This thesis is a collection of essays in applied microeconomic theory. It is composed of three parts. <br /> Part I (Procurement of innovation: tournaments vs auctions) deals with the procurement of innovations and compares ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(2011-08-11)This dissertation aims at continuing the theoretical and empirical analysis in international macroeconomics with an emphasis on improving the quantitative performance of New Open Economy Macroeconomic models. Chapter 1 ... -
Treatment of Double Default Effects within the Basel Regulatory Framework and a Theoretical and an Experimental Investigation of Higher-Order Risk Preferences
(2011-09-06)The financial crisis since 2007 has drastically demonstrated the importance of banking regulation. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, we present mathematical methods for the treatment of double default effects ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2011-05-16)Over the last thirty years findings from economic experiments substantially contributed to a better understanding of a wide variety of phenomena in different branches of economics. In areas like industrial organization, ... -
Essays on Information Disclosure in Auctions and Contests
(2011-05-06)In strategic decision making, the agents' decisions depend crucially on the information they have. Less information means more uncertainty about the other agents' possible behavior, making strategic decisions more complex. ... -
Essays about Option Valuation under Stochastic Interest Rates
(2011-04-06)This thesis consists of three essays on the valuation of options under stochastic interest rates. <br /> In the first essay we examine multivariate models where the stochastic process of a log-normally distributed underlying ... -
Essays in Econometrics and Macroeconomics
(2011-03-23)From a global perspective, this dissertation illustrates the consequences of choosing a particular balance between completeness and manageability in terms of model building, both in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics. ... -
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Investor Behavior
(2011-04-14)The first chapter deals with an alternative asset pricing test. According to asset pricing theory, in expectation there is a positive reward for taking risks. However, using realized returns, this relation is frequently ... -
Essays on the Efficiency of Financial Markets
(2010-12-30)In the three decades since the term was coined by Eugene F. Fama, the efficient market hypothesis has become the central proposition in financial economics, and, as such, widely accepted by academic scholars. Fama (1970)'s ... -
Financial Frictions and Business Cycles
(2010-11-15)This thesis investigates the business cycle implications of financial frictions for small open economies. Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium frameworks with financial and informational frictions and uncertainty in ... -
Confessio zwischen Beichte und Geständnis: Eine dogmengeschichtliche Betrachtung über die Entwicklung des Schuldbekenntnisses vom römischen Recht bis zum IV. Lateranum
(2010-09-27)Dogmengeschichtliche Betrachtung über die Entwicklung des Schuldbekenntnisses vom römischen Recht bis zum IV. Lateranum (im römischen, germanisch-deutschen und kirchlichen Recht). -
Five Essays in Economic Theory
(2010-09-21)The five essays in this thesis study game-theoretic auction models and their application to economic theory. <br /> Chapter 1 analyzes asymmetric all-pay auctions where the bidders' private types are independently drawn ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics: Binary Choice Experiments
(2010-09-14)This thesis is about binary decisions participants make in a laboratory environment. For this purpose, laboratory experiments are conducted to investigate effects of individual decision making in a microeconomic context. ...
