This Ph.D. thesis consists of four self-contained chapters, which all investigate macroeconomic questions from a micro perspective: through structural models with either full distributional heterogeneity or approximations thereof, and in one case, through microdata. In addition, all projects are...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Guest Editorial "Econometrics of Anonymized Micro Data" -- Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonparametric Regression Models / Lechner, Sandra / Pohlmeier, Winfried -- The Effect of Microaggregation Procedures...

Based on its outward-oriented development strategy, respectable growth, increased integration into world trade and financial markets, and imperfect though vibrant and wide-based democracy, Turkey is often cited as a development model for other countries in the region and elsewhere. Countering...