We study the consequences and optimal design of bank deposit insurance in a general equilibrium model. The model involves two production sectors. One sector is financed by issuing bonds to risk-averse households. Firms in the other sector are monitored and financed by banks. Households fund...

Governments design taxation schemes to capture resource rent. However, they usually propose contracts with limited duration and possess less information on the resources than the extractive firms do. This paper investigates how information asymmetry on costs and an inability to commit to...

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...

As in Roemer (1982, chapter 1), this paper considers a simple international trade model and examines the existence and characterization of free trade equilibria involving the unequal exchange of labor (UE). The paper provides an almost complete characterization of the domain of economies in...

Over the past two decades, private equity has contributed to a shrinking of the U.S. stock market. We develop a political economy model of private equity activity to study the wider economic consequences of this trend. We show that private and social incentives to delist firms from the stock...

Gruppierungs- und Reihenfolgeprobleme der Fertigung zählen zu den zentralen Fragestellungen der (operativen) Produktionsplanung. Gruppierung bezeichnet dabei die zu treffenden Entscheidungen über Größe und zeitliche Lage von Fertigungsaufträgen (Losen), während der Reihenfolgeaspekt die...

Das zunehmende Interesse an der Analyse dynamischer Prozesse und die sich ständig verbessernde Verfügbarkeit der zu ihrer Untersuchung notwenigen Datensätze lassen die Frage nach geeigneten Verfahren aufkommen. Traditionelle Methoden wie logistische und lineare Regression sind entweder nicht...

We build a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model to study whether European citizens would benefit from the eventual accession of Turkey to the European Union. The results of the simulations show that Turkey's accession to the European Union is welfare enhancing for Europeans, provided...