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Chapter 1 is joint work with Günter Franke, University of Konstanz, and Markus Herrmann, HSBC London, and addresses the question how collateralized debt obligation (CDO-) transactions are designed. An important issue is the information asymmetry about the quality of securitized debt between...
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Kooperation in einem einmaligen Spiel. Darüber hinaus finden wir keinen Hinweis darauf, dass Risikoaversion ein Faktor ist …
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response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …
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allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision …, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics, background risk, game theory, rationalizability, iterated strict dominance multi …-stage games, sequential equilibrium, trembling-hand perfection, stability, signaling games, theory of auctions, global games …
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economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in three parts … Konsum. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird ein verallgemeinertes Bewertungsmodell sowie ein neues Konzept der Risikoaversion … eingeführt. Dieses Konzept der intertemporalen Risikoaversion greift einen wichtigen Aspekt des Vorsichtsprinzips auf. Der dritte …
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This paper investigates the role of currency denomination in the the intertemporal risk-return relation among G7 countries. Similar to the findings of previous studies, our estimation also shows that the financial markets of the G7 countries are integrated. We obtain significant pricing...
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We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...
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