Incentives in Financial and Behavioral Economics - Essays in Applied Microeconomics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783832536787)

This thesis deals with the empirical identification of incentive effects in various settings.The central chapter looks at the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the incentive effects caused by policy interventions in financial markets. A hypothesis controversially discussed by academics as well as policy makers is that public bailouts for banks destroy market discipline, that is the incentives for decentralized monitoring by market participants. In turn, this might induce stronger risk-taking by banks and finally make future crises more likely and severe. The thesis describes a new methodology to identify this effect and shows that market discipline strongly deteriorated during the crisis period. In additional chapters, this thesis empirically identifies incentive effects in dynamic contest situations.

Author: Florian Hett
ISBN-10: 3832536787
ISBN-13: 9783832536787
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2015
Pages: 119
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.30d