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Dissertation
Peeking into the Black Box of Researcher Mobility and Knowledge Diffusion
(2020-03-18)
This dissertation thesis presents four studies on the relevance of individuals’ mobility for the dissemination of knowledge. They add to the literature on the economics of science and innovation as well as regional economics. Previous literature has shown researcher mobility to be an important driver of knowledge diffusion and, subsequently, the creation of new knowledge. However, different mobility types are often correlated and hard to differentiate. This thesis tries to help advance this research strand, in ...
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Dealing with Opportunism: Experimental Investigations of Measures against Dishonest Behavior
(2021)
This dissertation aims at investigating whether and how distinct measures that are supposed to foster honest behavior work. It consists of three separate papers, in which I analyze the effectiveness and mechanisms of such measures on the basis of several laboratory experiments. Chapter 2 is dedicated to analyzing and comparing the effectiveness of distinct measures that are supposed to prevent people from lying for financial gain. Chapter 3 introduces a novel experimental design that allows the measurement of the ...
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Socioeconomic inequality in academia
(2021)
Sozioökonomische Ungleichheit ist eine Herausforderung für das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem. Sie verhindert, dass Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus benachteiligten sozialen Gruppen ihr Talent voll ausschöpfen und so zum allgemeinem wissenschaftlichen als auch ökonomischen Fortschritt beitragen können. Die vorliegende Dissertation greift diese Problematik auf und versucht sowohl verlaufende methodische Probleme in der Generierung von Datenbank zu adressieren als auch eine Datenbank zu erstellen und wissenschaftsökonomische ...
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Empirical Analyses of the Emergence and the Effect of Inter-municipal Cooperation
(2020-08)
This dissertation presents four empirical studies on inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). IMC gained prominence lately as alternative to local government reform. As local decision makers grow weary of the political costs of amalgamations and discouraging empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such reforms, IMC promises a more flexible approach to the provision of public goods and services.
What are the factors that drive the emergence of IMC? This question is answered by way of survival analysis, using data of ...
Dissertation
The energy transition: An assessment of drivers and barriers
(2023)
Embedded in an introductory and a concluding chapter, the thesis comprises six distinct but related scientific articles. All articles contribute to a more holistic understanding of drivers and barriers of a successful energy transition. In the first part of the thesis, four articles address energy and economic efficiency in the electricity sector. These articles provide guidance for efficient regulatory policies and analyse measures seeking to increase preferences for dynamic electricity tariffs. The two articles in ...
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On the Cooperation of Groups in Social Dilemmas
(2020)
Die Menschheit steht vor zahlreichen Umweltproblemen wie dem Klimawandel, Luft- und Wasserverschmutzung, Biodiversitätsverlust und der Übernutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. All diese Probleme haben gemein, dass sie soziale Dilemmata darstellen und nur durch die Kooperation großer Gruppen gelöst werden können. Diese Dissertation bietet eine Analyse zur Kooperation von Gruppen in vier Studien. Die Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen. In Teil I werden zwei Laborexperimente präsentiert, in denen Entscheidungen von Individuen ...
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Human Behavior and Public Goods Provision - Empirical Evidence from the Laboratory and International Climate Negotiations
(2020)
This thesis comprises an introductory chapter followed by four distinct but connected articles. The common thread is the quest to understand human behavior in the provision of public goods and how this behavior is impacted by institutional and situational factors. The main body of the thesis can be divided into two thematic parts with two articles each.
Part 1 focuses on the international climate negotiations as a platform for international cooperation. The two articles in this part, presented in Chapter 2 and 3, ...
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Capital Accumulation, Sector Productivity, and Economic Growth
(2023)
This dissertation is motivated by the research results of Benigno and Fornaro (2014). Benigno and Fornaro (2014) research, how low interest rates impact the productivity of economies.
This dissertation implements extensions of the Benigno and Fornaro (2014) model, that particularly address the capital accumulation, the production functions, and the technology accumulation. In doing so, this dissertation shows that some of the Benigno und Fornaro (2014) research results require specific assumptions, to qualitatively ...
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Individual climate mitigation in the energy sector
(2021)
Based on micro-econometric analyses of survey data, this thesis extends existing research on the determinants of climate-friendly behavior in the energy sector with a special focus on economic preferences and social identity. It contains an overarching introduction and conclusion including a discussion of the policy implications of the results and avenues for future research. The main body of the thesis contains six research articles, organized in two subsections containing three articles each. All six research ...