Dieses Buch umfaßt die Darstellung der traditionellen und modernen mikroökonomischen Theorie; es enthält Modelle der grundlegenden ökonomischen Einheiten: Konsumenten, Produzenten und Märkte. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird dabei dem Oligopol zuteil, der typischen Marktform der modernen...

Any attempt to model an economy requires foundational assumptions about the relations between prices, values and the distribution of wealth. These assumptions exert a profound influence over the results of any model. Unfortunately, there are few areas in economics as vexed as the theory of...

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who is averse not only to risk but...

This paper formalizes the price and asset allocation mechanism of multi-unit double auctions in Xetra, the electronic equity trading system operated by the German stock exchange. The trading principles are embedded into the classical theory of quantity rationing. The properties of Xetra auctions...

In the first paper, using a dataset of the records of Texas Real Estate Agents, I reexamine the findings of Hsieh and Moretti (2003) regarding the inefficiency of free entry in real estate industry: first, I point out one important source of misidentification in that paper's analysis of the...

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University ofWolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University ofWolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Consumer sentiment has the ability to provide researchers with many avenues to test existingFinance and Economic theories. Chapter 1 introduces the issues that I seek to explore within the area ofBehavioral Finance. Chapter 2 utilizes thirty years of consumer sentiment data to explore...

By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...

Consumer sentiment has the ability to provide researchers with many avenues to test existing Finance and Economic theories. Chapter 1 introduces the issues that I seek to explore within the area of Behavioral Finance. Chapter 2 utilizes thirty years of consumer sentiment data to explore extant...