Four Essays and One Book

Review Essays and Book Reviews

In her engaging and useful book, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice, Katy Barnett presents a theory of disgorgement damages for breach of contract. This is a welcome publication, as disgorgement damages continue to present both theoretical and practical puzzles for the law of contract, and Barnett makes a valuable contribution to this important topic. By way of ba...

Four Essays on Investment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis would not have been possible without the help, guidance and support of many different people. I am indebted to all of them. Foremost, I am very grateful to my two principal supervisors Erik Theissen and Frank Riedel. Erik Theissen has been a great advisor. During the past four years, he offered me a lot of advice and provided me guidance whenever I needed, while lea...

Four Essays on Individual Heterogeneity

Four Essays on Applied Microeconometrics

Acknowledgements Looking back, the four years I spent writing this dissertation have been a fantastic learning experience. In the academic aspect, I have improved my knowledge of applied econometrics, I have enjoyed doing a lot of programming (I never thought my undergraduate years in computing would be so useful), I have attended conferences all around the world... But it is in the personal as...

Four Essays on Measuring Financial Risks