The Faculty of Law and Economics: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Households' Finances and Their Macroeconomic Relevance
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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. ... -
Essays in Income and Wealth Inequality
(2020-12-09)The distribution of income and wealth across households in the U.S. has changed dramatically since the 1950s. How are rising income and wealth inequality linked? This thesis aims at providing new insights into the relationship ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2020-11-25)This dissertation consists of four independent chapters, which all study determinants of human behavior. All chapters leverage insights from behavioral economics or methods from experimental economics. The unifying framework ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2020-11-23)This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays in microeconomic theory. The first chapter examines how pre-election polls affect the election outcome through the voters’ participation decision and studies the ... -
Die Auswirkungen des Geldwäschegesetzes (GwG) auf die leichtfertige Geldwäsche gemäß § 261 Abs. 5 StGB
(2020-10-20)Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ob und inwiefern Verstöße gegen das wirtschaftsaufsichtsrechtliche Geldwäschegesetz die strafrechtliche Leichtfertigkeit im Sinne des § 261 Abs. 5 StGB, dem Tatbestand der leichtfertigen ... -
Essays on Information in Politics and Social Decisions
(2020-09-17)This thesis consists of two parts. The first part consists of two chapters. The second part has one chapter.<br /> How does the information of citizens shape the democratic process? This is the question asked in the ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2020-09-17)This dissertation presents three chapters revolving around the common theme ‘motivated reasoning.’ Motivated reasoning occurs when individuals tradeoff accurate beliefs and desirable beliefs (Bénabou and Tirole, 2016). ... -
Determinants of Human Capital Formation
(2020-08-25)Human capital is crucial for individuals’ economic prosperity. As such, differences in human capital are largely responsible for existing inequalities within society, making it essential to understand the determinants of ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
(2020-05-25)This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied microeconomic theory. A common feature of all three projects is communication about private information in different strategic environments. In Chapter 1, I ...
