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From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks
(2024-02-29)The System for the Prevention and Analysis of School Dropouts in Higher Education (SPADIES) played a pivotal role in addressing the challenge of reducing drop-out rates in Colombian higher education, contributing to an ... -
Konstruktbasierte Bestimmung domänenorientierter komplexer Problemlösefähigkeit mit Komplexen Standardisierten Itemsequenzen
(2024-02-21)Die Fähigkeit, komplexe Probleme zu lösen, hat als Forschungsgegenstand in den vergangenen Jahren merklich das Interesse der Erziehungswissenschaften auf sich gezogen. Auch in ihrer Ausformung zur Kompetenz gilt sie als ... -
Essays in quantitative economics: Improvements in measurements and macroeconomic analysis
(2023-12-22)This thesis highlights opportunities and challenges related to the use of data in empirical economics. The interpretation of data is the primary tool we as economists have at our disposal to calibrate our models and test ... -
The Impact and Implementation of International Development Finance
(2023-12-04)This dissertation examines the pivotal role of international development finance amid the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Against the backdrop of formidable challenges, including the ... -
Well-Being and Shocks: Challenges in Poverty Measurement and Analysis
(2023-11-17)Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for a world free of poverty in 2030. Over the last decades, the world has made much progress in reducing poverty. However, COVID-19 has shown that these gains can be reversed ... -
Addressing barriers to human capital accumulation: Essays in development and health economics
(2023-11-17)While health and education, jointly referred to as human capital, are important ends in themselves, they are also important drivers of poverty alleviation and economic growth. Understanding and overcoming the barriers that ... -
Local Dimensions of Development
(2023-10-23)Poverty remains one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting people’s livelihood in far more than the mere income dimension: The poor suffer from limited access to education, health care and nutrition, face ... -
Essays in Political Economy: Drivers of Polarization
(2023-10-12)This thesis contributes to our understanding of the increasing polarization of societies. The first chapter focuses on immigration inflows as driver of polarization. As societies are faced with an increasing number of ... -
Estimating and evaluating mixed and semiparametric models with statistical and deep learning methods
(2023-09-11)Semiparametric models are well-established, versatile and effective statistical models for analysing complex data by combining both parametric and non-parametric components and are used in a wide range of applications and ... -
Corporate valuation with mixed financing strategies and cross-border relations
(2023-08-31)Corporate valuation is a theoretically challenging but practically highly relevant field. It is usually conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) methods. One important part of corporate valuation with DCF methods are ... -
On the Determinants of Premiums in Financial Markets
(2023-08-24)This dissertation analyzes the pricing, exposures as well as information content of options. It aims to fill research gaps in the existing options-literature in the research fields of volatility-related pricing, option-exposures ... -
Semi-Parametric Distributional Regression in Forestry and Ecology
(2023-08-10)Recent advances in machine learning software, such as automatic differentiation and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, have significantly changed machine learning research. They have accelerated model development and contributed ... -
Förderung von Belastungs-Beanspruchungs-Bewältigung bei Auszubildenden in der Pflege
(2023-06-02)The nursing profession is characterized by a particularly high stress level. This in turn has an impact on the quality of care and the retention of nurses. Against the backdrop of an aging society and the resulting increasing ... -
Designing fiscal policy
(2023-04-24)This dissertation, comprising three academic papers, deals with the trade-off between fiscal sustainability and macroeconomic stabilization. The first paper examines the specification of fiscal reaction functions: We argue ... -
Extending the Boosting Framework based on Bayesian Methodology
(2023-03-31)The boosting technique emerged from machine learning has become a widely used method to estimate statistical models. As one of the most successful variants, componentwise gradient boosting has been favored by more and more ... -
Essays on structured additive regression models with applications in development economics
(2023-03-17)Structured additive regression models are a particular class of models that provide a flexible framework to deal with a wide class of effects, including linear, nonlinear, random, spatial, and interaction effects, which ... -
Essays in Development and Health Economics
(2023-03-06)This dissertation consists of four essays, which are all based on primary data. In the first essay, we describe and attempt to explain the state and functionality of pre-schools (Anganwadi Centres) in Bihar, India. We find ... -
Textual Information in Analyst Reports and its Value for Decision Support
(2023-02-16)The profession of financial analysts requires skills that cannot be replaced even by today’s most cutting-edge analytical tools. Instead, ongoing globalization and the increasing interconnectedness of international financial ... -
Decision Support for Credit Risk Management Using Alternative Data
(2023-02-16)The digitization of economic activity of individuals and organizations has been a significant trend in recent decades. This shift creates incentives to collect and process data relevant to the information needs of diverse ... -
Studies on Digital Transformation and its Implications for Business Models and Corporate Communication
(2022-10-19)Due to an ongoing digitalization of societies and businesses and an increasingly intense and complex competitive environment, incumbent firms need to stay up to date with technological advancements and digitally transform ...