This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

The three chapters of this dissertation discuss what role complexity plays in different fields of international economics. First, we discuss the role of complex information in decision making of multinational companies. On the one hand, we test the hypotheses by Oldenski (2012) that affiliate...