Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management [Elektronische Ressource] / Daniel Müller. Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Essays in Applied Microeconomicsand ManagementInaugural-Dissertationzur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktorsder Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftendurch dieRechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultat¨der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universita¨tBonnvorgelegt von¨Daniel Mulleraus BonnBonn 2010II Essays in Applied Microeconomics and ManagementDekan: Prof. Dr. Christian HillgruberErstreferent: Prof. Dr. Urs SchweizerZweitreferent: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kr¨akelTag der mu¨ndlichen Pru¨fung: 12.02.2010AcknowledgementsIn preparing this thesis I received support from many people to whom I am grateful.First and foremost, I want to thank Urs Schweizer for being a great supervisor. More askepticthananproponentofbehavioraleconomics,itwasUrsSchweizerwhotaughtmesome of the most important lessons about how to write a behavioral paper. Secondly,I want to thank Matthias Kr¨akel for acting as a referee on my thesis committee andfor countless helpful comments on all chapters gathered in this thesis.I am particularly grateful to Fabian Herweg. While jointly preparing for the microfinal during our first year in the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, we realized thatwe had a knack for understanding each other—which should become one of the mostvaluable assets in the ensuing cooperation. Our joint research over the past four yearshas been a fruitful, usually fun, and inspiring activity.