Standards and Incentives in Safety Regulation [Elektronische Ressource] / Felix Reinshagen. Betreuer: Klaus Schmidt

Standards and Incentivesin Safety RegulationInaugural-DissertationzurErlangungdesGradesDoctoroeconomiaepublicae(Dr. oec. publ.)anderLudwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen2010vorgelegtvonFelixReinshagenReferent: Prof. Dr. KlausM.SchmidtKorreferent: Prof. RayReesPromotionsabschlussberatung: 1. Juni2011AcknowledgementsFirstandforemost,Iwouldliketothankmysupervisor,KlausM.Schmidt,forthe support and counsel that he has given me while writing this dissertation.IamalsoverythankfultoRayReesandSvenRady,whoencouragedme–espe-ciallyduringthedifficultstart–andagreedtoactassecondandthirdexaminer.Ihavereceivedvaluablefeedbackanddirectionfromanumberofpeople.Amongothers,IwouldliketomentionJenniferArlen,BennoBühler,MatthiasDischinger,FlorianEnglmaier,GeorgGebhardt,DanielGöller,SandraLudwig,MartinSchnei-der,CasparSiegert,AnnoStolper,ChristinaStrassmairandRobertUlbricht.Thanksgotomynumerousofficemates,who–atsometimeoranother–hap-pily shared oneof thelargenumberof offices that I occupied duringmy doc-toralcareer,namelySilviaAppelt,JoachimKlein,NicolasKlein,JohannesMaier,JanSchikora,CasparSiegertandAnnoStolper.IamalsogratefultotheDepartmentofEconomicsforadmittingmetothedoc-toralprogram,despitemyunusualbackgroundasalawyer. IreceivedfinancialsupportfromtheDeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft(DFG) throughGRK801,whichIgratefullyacknowledge.