Speculative Attacks are a coordination game with multiple equilibria: If a sufficient number of traders expect devaluation, market pressure forces the central bank to abandon a currency peg that it would have kept otherwise. Thus, expectations are self-fulfilling. Applying the global games approach, Morris and Shin (1998) have shown that there is a unique equilibrium in threshold strategies, if...

The central topic in this dissertation is the description and application of a method that can be used to investigate colour as a qualitative phenomenon, without reducing the wealth of meanings that can be experienced in the world of colour. This method should provide space for the experience of colour, but also for a conceptual representation that gives human thinking access to this wealth of ...