The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Essays on Matching Markets
(2009-08-12)The thesis "Essays on Matching Markets" contributes to the theory and applications of matching theory.<br /> The first chapter analyzes the German university admissions system and proposes an alternative admissions procedure ... -
Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Learning
(2009-07-27)The dissertation deals with both a model in which agents with limited information conform to a learning rule, as well as boundedly rational consumers who follow simple rules of thumb. The first case is treated within a ... -
Towards a Behavioural Foundation of Macroeconomics
(2009-08-19)Traditional macroeconomic theories often assume that aggregate economic figures originate in the behaviour of individuals who optimise their utility. In doing so, it is casually taken for granted that all agents act ... -
Learning in Macroeconomics: An Empirical Approach
(2009-04-23)This thesis explores the role of adaptive learning in explaining empirical phenomena such as the Great Inflation. We show that the historic monetary policy deviated from the optimally recommended policy under learning. ... -
Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien: Eine analytische Beschreibung
(2009-04-16)Zweck von Handelsstrategien mit Mindestgarantien ist es eine untere Grenze von Vermögen zu sichern und dabei trotzdem von steigenden Finanzmärkten zu profitieren. Die Absicherung wird dabei häufig durch eine dynamische ... -
CPPI Strategies in Discrete Time
(2009-11-17)In general, the purpose of portfolio insurance strategies is to limit the downside risk of risky portfolios. The constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) is a prominent example of a portfolio insurance strategy. Based ... -
Essays in Behavioral Public Economics
(2009-02-20)This dissertation aims at the identification of systematic behavioral biases that are relevant in the context of economic policy. In total, the dissertation consists of four chapters. In each chapter, we empirically analyze ... -
Die Verkehrsunfallflucht nach § 142 StGB als potentiell konkretes Forderungsgefährdungsdelikt: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Systematisierung der Forderungsdelikte
(2009-02-12)Der Tatbestand der Verkehrsunfallflucht nach § 142 StGB soll die möglicherweise bestehende Schadenersatzforderung des Unfallgeschädigten sichern. Aus dem Vergleich zu anderen Forderungsdelikten ergeben sich Merkmale des ... -
The Price of CO2 Allowances in the European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: An Empirical, Experimental, and Theoretical Study
(2008)According to the common position of the European Council, large installations from the energy industry and other carbon-intensive industries are part of an EU-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) ... -
Essays on Moral Norms, Legal Unbundling and Franchise Systems
(2008)<p>This dissertation studies three, rather unrelated, topics, which are investigated in 4 independent chapters. <br /> Chapter 1 analyses a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply ... -
The Role of External Shocks in Emerging Market Crises
(2008)The dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the research on emerging market crises. A particular focus is set on problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, which appear to have been the cause ... -
Economic Behavior in Real Effort Experiments
(2008)<p>Laboratory experiments have gained more and more importance in economics in the last twenty years. Their superior control possibilities are not called in doubt. However, it is often complained that laboratory experiments ... -
Three Essays on Unit Roots and Nonlinear Co-Integrated Processes
(2008)<p>Many macroeconomic and financial key variables such as e.g. consumption, investment, gross domestic product and interest rates, display non-stationary features such as trends or changing variances. A non-stationary ... -
A contribution to the determinants of total factor productivity growth
(2008)Why do some countries grow and others stagnate? The Science magazine considers this question as one of the 125 "most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today'' (Science magazine (2005)). Indeed, the successful ... -
Essays on Basket Options Hedging and Irreversible Investment Valuation
(2008)<p>Basket options are one of well-known newly-generated exotic options. As its name implies, it is an option on a portfolio of several assets. As the underlying basket offers more diversification, basket options gain ... -
Four Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2008)<p>In the following four chapters, distinct but related experimental research analyzing strategic and non-strategic economic behavior is presented.<br /> Chapter 2, entitled "Cooperation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Prisoner's ... -
Heterogeneity in Economics and Aggregation
(2008)Heterogeneity is all around us. People differ substantially with respect to their tastes, expectations, and available resources, and firms are heterogeneous in technologies and the quantity or nature of input factors. Since ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2008)<p>This dissertation aims at continuing and expanding three lines of research prominent in behavioral economics today. The first chapter deals with the role of reciprocity in labor contracts and explores which factors ... -
Evolution in Structured Populations
(2008)<p>How does social and economic interaction of agents within large populations depend on their perception of the matching-structure?<br /> When do evolutionary dynamics with limited information processing lead to stable ... -
Three issues of policy implementation in Europe: An applied political economy perspective
(2008)<p>This thesis aims to shed light on the political-economic factors explaining the policy outcomes of the following three European political issues:<br /> The first one is the geographic allocation of the three largest ...
