This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...

Das Vertrauen der Verbraucher in die Finanzdienstleistungsbranche hat in den letzten Jahren stark abgenommen und befindet sich auf einem Tiefpunkt. Schuld an dieser Situation sind oftmals die Strukturen der verkaufsorientierten Finanzberatung. Ein häufig genanntes Problem in diesem Zusammenhang...

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...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...