This dissertation consists of three chapters relating to identification and inference in dynamic microeconometric models including dynamic discrete games with many players, dynamic games with discrete and continuous choices, and semiparametric binary choice and duration panel data...

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...

Mots-clés de l'autrice: energy policy ; electricity markets ; market liberalization ; technology restrictions ; energy modeling ; top-down model ; bottom-up model ; soft-link coupling ; general equilibrium

The payoff of many credit derivatives depends on the level of credit spreads. In particular, the payoff of credit derivatives with a leverage component is sensitive to jumps in the underlying credit spreads. In the framework of first passage time models we extend the model introduced in...

This doctoral dissertation analyses the transmission of monetary policy. It applies a variety of empirical methods to study how conventional and unconventional monetary policy measures transmit to different macroeconomic and financial variables. The first article analyses the effect of monetary...

Im ersten Teil der Arbeit werden umweltpolitische Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit analysiert. Nach einem Aufriss des Problems der globalen Erwärmung und der damit verbundenen Unsicherheiten und Handlungsoptionen wird die unreflektierte Verwendung der Konzepte der Vermeidungskosten sowie des...

In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...