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Dissertation
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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Economic Aspects of Market-based Flexibility for Electricity Networks
(2023)
This thesis contributes to the discussion of the utilization of network-supportive flexibility, in particular in the context of local flexibility markets (LFM). The thesis comprises five articles that are methodologically related but can be read independently. The focus of the investigations is on economic aspects and short- and medium-term market processes.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the topic including the definition of the most important terms. Chapter 2 includes the paper, “Design of regional flexibility ...
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 ...
Dissertation
"Währungsunion ohne Wirtschaftsunion"
(2019)
Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die wirtschaftspolitische Analyse der Konstruktion der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion. Während die Geld- und Währungspolitik in Europa seit 1999 vollständig supranationalisiert ist, verbleiben zentrale Politikbereiche wie die Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik weiterhin in nationalstaatlicher Verantwortung. Die derzeitigen Probleme der EWWU – so die grundlegende Erkenntnis dieser Arbeit – sind v.a. darin begründet, dass die Währungsunion nicht durch eine adäquate Wirtschaftsunion ...
Dissertation
Determinants and Effects of Local Public Education Expenditures - an Empirical Approach
(2019-09-18)
There are many (international) debates on education and education expenditures from a political economic as well as from a scientific perspective. However, the role of German counties and local agents in Germany in general has not been analyzed from an economic perspective yet. This is the reason why my doctoral thesis investigates the role of German counties as the “forgotten” agent for the determinants and effects of local public school expenditures. This cumulative dissertation consists of three econometric papers ...
Dissertation
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, ...
Dissertation
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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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
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 ...