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...

Taxes are an important component of investing that is commonly overlooked in both the literature and in practice. For example, many understand that taxes will reduce an investment’s return, but less understood is the risk-sharing nature of taxes that also reduces the investment’s risk. This...

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers containing theoretical and empirical research on household portfolio choice and consumption decision in the life time. Household finance is a new interesting field in financial economics that has attracted a lot of attention...

This thesis consists of three chapters on economic and econometric applications of Bayesian parameter estimation and model comparison. The first two chapters study the incidental parameter problem mainly under a linear autoregressive (AR) panel data model with fixed effect. The first chapter...

Die Dissertation wendet die fallgestützte Entscheidungstheorie (Case-Based Decision Theory) vorgeschlagen von Gilboa and Schmeidler (1995) auf Entscheidungen in Finanzmärkten an. Betrachtet werden sowohl das individuelle Portfoliowahlproblem eines Investors, wie auch Märkte, in denen...

In the past two decades, cross country portfolio holdings of a large variety of assets have risen sharply. This has created an important role for changes in asset prices, or valuation effects". This dissertation examines the role of valuation effects in a country's external adjustment. The...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Economics. Advisor: Narayana R. Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 81 pages. Ill.(some col.)

Essays in Empirical Finance: Evaluating Risk in FinancialMarketsBy Alysa V. ShcherbakovaThis dissertation is comprised of two parts, each addressing animportant type of financial risk. The first part is composed of anessay discussing Market Risk. This essay examines a causalrelationship between...