Four essays on modern architecture

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

Essays in Modern Operations Management

This thesis explores three problems in modern operations management that have arisen in response to recent technological advances that have changed management practice. Our first chapter discusses the regulation of electricity markets with rooftop solar, whose adoption has recently seen a dramatic increase. The second and third chapters study problems arising from the increased availability of ...