This dissertation was written by Christopher Weber during his time as a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. It was handed in at the department of Economics at the LMU Munich in July 2016. The goal of the thesis is to...

Die jüngere Vergangenheit zeugt von turbulenten Entwicklungen an den deutschen Aktienbörsen. Von einer aufkeimenden Aktienkultur, die ihr Vorbild in den USA sah, über Schwindel erregende Kursbewegungen, plötzlichen Reichtum aufgrund von hohen Aktienkursen, Insolvenzen, Kursbetrügereien bis...

Quarterly data of magazine circulation are used to analyse the consumption behaviour of the readers of German popular magazines in a panel framework using OLS, 2SLS and generalized method of moments techniques, in order to test the rational addiction hypothesis in respect with goods without any...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...