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 vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Schätzung von sogenannten Disequilibrium Modellen sowie mit den Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise von 2007 auf die Vergabe von Bankkrediten. Während sich der erste Artikel ausschließlich mit Disequilibrium Modellen befasst, konzentriert sich...

This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...