Abstract: The impact of uncertainty on the decision-making of economic agents, such as firms and households, is a important but often neglected element of micro- and macroeconomic theory. With the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 and the strong increase in uncertainty that accompanied it,...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

This thesis deals with the problem of technical change, its forms, causes and effects. It treats certain aspects of this large subject from a perspective that may be labelled as "Classical-Schumpeterian". The aim is to push the evolutionary theory of differential growth a bit further and to...