The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Essays in Public Finance
Scherf, Robert (2019-07-23)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on public finance, that is, on the study of government revenue and expenditure. Taxation and public spending reflect society's values, priorities, as well as its ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Klein, Saskia (2019-07-12)This dissertation is built up of four essays in Microeconomic Theory. In these essays, I analyze strategic disclosure of information to a committee and strategic communication of information within an organization. All ... -
Essays in Macro-finance
Kuvshinov, Dmitry (2019-07-04)This thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of what lies behind the risk and volatility in financial and macroeconomic outcomes, and how the two are related. The first contribution of the thesis lies in constructing new ... -
Essays on Financial Regulation
Kotidis, Antonios (2019-06-27)This dissertation identifies the effects of regulatory reforms on economic outcomes with a strong focus on real effects. In the first chapter, we analyze the effect of leverage ratio regulation on repo markets exploiting ... -
Roots and Consequences of Financial Distortions
Hols, Christopher (2019-05-28)This thesis links the roots and the consequences excess debt can have for an economy. Chapter 2 studies the impact financial frictions, caused by high debt levels, have on the business cycle. This helps understanding what ... -
Three Essays in International Macroeconomics
Hettig, Thomas (2019-06-18)This thesis challenges three views in international macroeconomics with important policy implications. The first chapter asks how fiscal policy should be designed in a monetary union and draws novel conclusions. The second ... -
The Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences of Changing Labor Mobility and Unemployment
Hartung, Benjamin (2019-05-08)The causes and consequences of worker mobility and its broader implications for labor market efficiency and welfare are complex and have been widely discussed in both the public debate and the academic literature. This ... -
Essays in Economic Theory
Winkelmann, Justus Hans (2019-04-04)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The common theme of all chapters is the analysis of collective decision problems in which efficient decisions depend on information that is ... -
Das semipräsidiale Regierungssystem der Weimarer Republik im Vergleich mit dem heutigen türkischen Regierungssystem nach den Verfassungsänderungen in 2007 und 2017
Duygun, Ahmet Mert (2019-03-22)Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dieser Frage, ob die Weimarer Reichsverfassung und die Verfassung von 1982 der Türkei durch die Verfassungswirklickeit bezüglich der Stellung des Staatsoberhauptes eine Wandlung erlebt ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Schaube, Sebastian (2019-02-27)Few economic decisions are ever made in a social vacuum. Many of us look constantly to others for guidance or for comparison. Our actions might benefit or hurt others, so we use said actions strategically to reward or to ... -
Essays on Image Concerns and Norm-Enforcing Behavior
Bašić, Zvonimir (2019-02-27)This thesis consists of four essays which contribute to a better understanding of the behavioral impact of image concerns as well as norm-enforcing behavior. All of them employ experiments, either in a lab setting or a ... -
Empirical evidence on the determinants of economic decision-making
Willrodt, Jana (2018-12-18)The first three chapters of this thesis are dedicated to empirically examining factors beyond risk preferences that influence decision-making under risk: psychological states (Chapter 2), character traits (Chapter 3), and ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics: Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Herold, Jens Gerrit (2018-12-04)Interest rates and debt are key policy instruments for monetary and fiscal policy makers and relevant not only for the individual's decision but also for the economy as a whole. This work contains three chapters on the ... -
Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behavior
Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm (2018-08-29)Next to preferences over outcomes, people's subjective beliefs about unobserved states of the world are the central building block of economic models of decision-making. This thesis submits that a more nuanced account of ... -
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
Püttmann, Lukas Konstantin (2018-08-15)Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ... -
Three Essays in Econometrics
Walders, Fabian (2018-08-14)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in econometrics and statistics. It discusses methodological topics in semi- and nonparametric statistics as well as empirical questions in financial econometrics. My ... -
Die Konkurrenz zwischen Gewährleistungsrecht und Informationspflicht
Yu, Chengyuan (2018-07-17)Schon vor der Schuldrechtsreform wurde die Konkurrenz zwischen Gewährleistungsrecht und Informationspflicht heftig diskutiert. Seit der Schuldrechtsreform sind neue Meinungen hinzugetreten. Zwar ist an der bereits vor der ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Financial Crisis Forecasting
Ward, Felix (2018-08-15)This thesis contributes long-run perspectives to the research on international macroeconomics and macro-finance. Chapters 2 and 3, analyze international financial linkages and their evolution over the past 150 years. Chapter ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
Bobkova, Nina Vladimirovna (2018-07-20)This dissertation contains three chapters in microeconomic theory, which analyze the impact of asymmetry, information acquisition and disclosure in strategic environments, in particular in auctions and elections. In the ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
Chen, Yao (2018-08-15)What are the conditions for a well-functioning currency union? Since the 1960s', there has been a long stream of literature dedicated to this question. Through studying the historical fixed exchange rate regime of the Gold ...