Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
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DissertationDate of Exam
21.06.2016Date of Publication
11.07.2016Advisor
Krähmer, DanielCo-Referee
Kräkel, MatthiasMetadata
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This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head starts in innovation contests in which firms invest over time to find innovations. Chapter 2 studies how firms and managers pair up with each other when firms play an imperfect competition in the same goods market. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are on optimal disclosure policies in contests. Chapter 3 models a contest as an all-pay auction and studies whether a contest organizer should disclose the actual number of participating bidders if each bidder's participation is random. Chapter 4 considers whether an innovation contest organizer, upon receiving a submission of an innovation, should reveal the information of the submitted innovation in time.
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330 WirtschaftChen, Bo: Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory. - Bonn, 2016. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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note = {This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head starts in innovation contests in which firms invest over time to find innovations. Chapter 2 studies how firms and managers pair up with each other when firms play an imperfect competition in the same goods market. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are on optimal disclosure policies in contests. Chapter 3 models a contest as an all-pay auction and studies whether a contest organizer should disclose the actual number of participating bidders if each bidder's participation is random. Chapter 4 considers whether an innovation contest organizer, upon receiving a submission of an innovation, should reveal the information of the submitted innovation in time.},
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-44134,
author = {{Bo Chen}},
title = {Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2016,
month = jul,
note = {This thesis comprises four essays that belong to different strands of the theoretical economic literature. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 study competitions among heterogeneous agents. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of head starts in innovation contests in which firms invest over time to find innovations. Chapter 2 studies how firms and managers pair up with each other when firms play an imperfect competition in the same goods market. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are on optimal disclosure policies in contests. Chapter 3 models a contest as an all-pay auction and studies whether a contest organizer should disclose the actual number of participating bidders if each bidder's participation is random. Chapter 4 considers whether an innovation contest organizer, upon receiving a submission of an innovation, should reveal the information of the submitted innovation in time.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/6820}
}
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