The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Essays in Behavioral Microeconomic Theory
Klümper, Andreas (2021-10-21)In this dissertation, I contribute to the literature on Behavioral Microeconomic Theory by analyzing the consequences of well-established departures from rationality and their remedies in strategic interactions. More ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Kattwinkel, Deniz (2021-09-21)This thesis consists of three self-contained papers: Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency, Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design, and Allocation with Correlated Information: Too ... -
Three Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics
Khismatullina, Marina (2021-09-02)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. In these essays, I am interested in the nonparametric regression models and in developing new methods for testing various qualitative ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
Voss, Paul (2021-08-30)This dissertation is composed of four self-contained chapters studying how financial markets affect the governance of public companies. The first chapter shows how large shareholders can engage in governance when there is ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Neuber, Thomas Erik (2021-08-26)This thesis consists of five chapters that contribute to understanding the consequences, measurement, and origins of heterogeneity in preferences. Underneath this overarching topic, several different threads are weaving ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics
Arvai, Kai (2021-08-26)The Political Economy of Currency Unions:<br /> How can a currency union be sustained when member states have an exit option? This paper derives how fiscal and monetary policies can ensure the survival of a common currency, ... -
Essays in Econometrics with focus on smooth minimum distance inference
Becker, Daniel (2021-08-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semiparametric statistics as well as dynamic panel data models. In chapters 1 and 2 the smooth minimum ... -
Essays on Financial Intermediation and Financial Stability
Rother, Simon (2021-08-03)This thesis analyzes key determinants of financial intermediation and financial stability in three self-contained parts. <br /> The first part explores banks' lending behavior by analyzing the social ties within a ... -
Three Essays on Households' Finances and Their Macroeconomic Relevance
Bartscher, Alina Kristin (2021-08-03)How do households make their financial decisions, and how does this affect macroeconomic outcomes such as homeownership and borrowing rates, labor supply and socioeconomic inequality? This thesis contributes to the economic ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Ananyev, Mikhail (2021-07-19)Two topics are covered in this dissertation. One topic is about individual's contribution decisions in social dilemmas situations (situations, when everyone is better off keeping their endowments for themselves but everybody ... -
Essays in Macro-finance
Zimmermann, Niklas Kaspar (2021-07-13)This thesis provides a comparative perspective on current macro-financial phenomena. Understanding the causes and consequences of rare macroeconomic events and secular trends is inherently difficult. Competing theories and ... -
Three Essays on the Interconnectedness of Labor Markets and Household Finance
Ploj, Gašper (2021-07-13)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays that investigate the interconnectedness of labor markets and household finance. The first two chapters focus on differences in workers' labor market experience and ... -
Decisions, Behavior and Societal Challenges
Han, Hua-Jing (2021-05-19)This thesis has two aims, first, to contribute to the scientific understanding of human behavior and decisions, namely, social preferences (here: reciprocity), belief formation, and goal setting and feedback. Second, to ... -
Essays on Inflation Expectations, Leaning Against the Wind Policy, and Consumer Bankruptcy
ter Steege, Lucas (2021-05-03)Times of severe economic crisis are, fortunately, rare events. Large recessions, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Great Recession during the late 2000s, have detrimental effects on all economic sectors. ... -
Financial Decisions of Households under Uncertainty
Zimpelmann, Christian Max (2021-03-23)Understanding decision making of households has always been a key challenge of economic research. Some of the most relevant household choices are financial decisions regarding savings since these insure household consumption ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Ignaszak, Marek (2021-02-01)In this thesis, I aim to deepen our understanding of the functioning of the labor market. I study various frictions emerging in the market for labor and analyze how these imperfections shape the macro-economy. In Chapter ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wogrolly, Axel (2021-01-08)The benchmark model of economics, expected utility theory, assumes that individuals manage uncertainty by forming beliefs about all relevant events and that these beliefs satisfy the probability axioms. There is ample scope ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Speit, Andre (2021-01-08)This dissertation is composed of four chapters with two overarching themes. In the first two chapters, we analyze common-value auctions in which bidders are either uninformed about the number of their competitors or their ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Knoepfle, Jan (2020-12-22)This thesis comprises four self-contained essays in economic theory studying the optimal use of private information in strategic interactions. In all the situations considered, non-monetary as well as dynamic incentives ... -
Essays on Beliefs
Stötzer, Lasse Simon (2020-12-15)Beliefs govern how individuals interact with the world around them. Their pivotal role in decision-making processes has led to great interest in how they are formed and arguably of more importance, how they are changed. ...