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DDR-Justiz vor Gericht
(2008-08-27)A stock-taking for the processing of the perversion of justice offenses committed in GDR. -
Decision Making in Fragile Settings
(2023-10-17)This dissertation presents three independent studies investigating decision-making in fragile settings. Researchers and policymakers have recognized fighting conflict and fragility as a key strategy in the fight against ... -
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 ... -
Decision Support for the Planning of Production Systems for Renewable Resources
(2022-09-27)For the substitution of fossil fuels with renewables, the use of biomass in production processes is often considered ambivalent regarding economic viability and other sustainability criteria. To address the sustainability ... -
Decision Support Systems for Financial Market Surveillance
(2017-01-12)Financial decision support systems have become an important research topic and are also of great interest to practitioners. On one hand, the financial regulatory authorities are faced with tracking an increasing amount of ... -
Decision-making, uncertainty and the predictability of financial markets: Essays on interest rates, crude oil prices and exchange rates
(2018-05-24)Decision-makers are confronted with decisions under uncertainty. Financial uncertainty may adversely affect growth. Theoretically, forecasts may potentially reduce uncertainty and create economic value. Focusing on survey ... -
Deliberative Ideale im Kontext informeller Bürgerbeteiligung
(2017-04-07)Deliberative participation arrangements are understood to fulfill three criteria: (1) they enable an effective involvement of citizens; (2) they take place in pre-conceived settings and thus do not occur spontaneously; (3) ... -
Dependence in macroeconomic variables: Assessing instantaneous and persistent relations between and within time series
(2017-10-10)The present thesis comprises two rather independent chapters. In general, the diagnosis and quantification of dependence is a major aim of econometric studies. Along these lines, the concept of dependence serves as an ... -
Design Principles of Mobile Information Systems in the Digital Transformation of the Workplace - Utilization of Smartwatch-based Information Systems in the Corporate Context
(2021-01-26)During the last decades, smartwatches emerged as an innovative and promising technology and hit the consumer market due to the accessibility of affordable devices and predominant acceptance caused by the considerable ... -
Design, Implementierung und Anwendung eines dynamischen Mikro-Simulationsmodells zur Abschätzung von Steuerreformen in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union
(2016-12-14)Potential tax reforms are regularly on the agenda of the political debate in Germany and Europe. The expected revenue and distribution effects of tax reforms are quantified by simulation models, which are thus used for ... -
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 ... -
Desirable and Undesirable Effects of Product Presentation Tools on Online and Offline Behavior
(2019-02-27)Online retailing is lacking the opportunity to touch and try tangible products before purchase. Thus, a complete judgement of the main product characteristics is not possible and customers’ uncertainty increases. In case ... -
Determinanten der Einstellung zu Studienbeiträgen – Ergebnisse von Online-Umfragen unter Studierenden
(2016-08-29)In this thesis the question arose which determinants affect the attitude towards tuition fees. Two approaches within the Social Sciences can explain attitudes in general: the economic approach and the ideological approach. ... -
Determinants of Child Development in India
(2021-03-29)To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are likely not to attain their full development potential. ... -
Determinants of Human Cooperation
(2017-12-13)The present book adds to the broad field of investigations concerning what affects and determines human cooperation. It provides new insights into internal and external factors that influence such decisions. Rather than ... -
Determinations of Other-Regarding Behavior and the Private Provision of Public Goods
(2021-10-08)This thesis contributes to research that challenges the narrow self-interest assumption used in the standard economic model. The first part of the thesis includes three experimental studies on social preferences. The second ... -
(Deutsches) Internationales Insolvenzrecht im Umbruch:
(2006-05-30)This thesis is dealing with the hot topics of International Insolvency Law, starting with questionning the competence of local courts to start an insolvency proceeding under local laws and ... -
Developing Controlling and Performance Evaluation of Multinational Companies Operating in Egypt
(2006-09-26)This research aims to develop controlling and performance evaluation of multinational companies operating in Egypt through considering the effect of the environmental factors and problems affecting the performance of these ... -
Development and Gender Inequality
(2011-11-17)The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing ... -
Development of Material Flow Cost Accounting and Value Added Statements as Planning Instruments for Sustainability Management
(2023-06-01)In companies, the environmental and social objectives of employees, society, and customers have become in relation to the primary economic goals of the equity holders more important. The partially contrary relationships ... -
Differenzierungen, Normalität und Positionierungen. Analysen studentischer Äußerungen über Inklusion und Schüler*innen.
(2023-08-04)In recent years, 'inclusion' has become an important topic in school and classroom research as well as in teacher education and student research. While quantitative-empirical research asks about attitudes and similar ... -
Digital Health Affairs – Voraussetzungen für politischen Wandel im Gesundheitswesen
(2017-02-06)Political science studies of the last few years show that the German and Austrian health care systems are rather reform-resistant. On the basis of the launch of electronic card systems in the German and Austrian health ... -
Digitalisierung im Personenverkehr
(2020-06-05)The effects of demographic change and lack of acceptance pose some of the main problems for public transport infrastructure in rural areas in developed countries. In developing countries, however, there is a need to ... -
Digitization of High-Stakes Exams
(2023-08-31)The opportunities for digitization in education have been addressed in research and practice for a long time. These extend across all components of the Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment (CIA) triad according to PELLEGRINO ... -
Das Dilemma der BrückenbauerInnen: LokalpolitikerInnen mit Migrationshintergrund
(2019-05-27)The political representation of people with a migration background is increasingly becoming the focus of public and academic attention. Even though people with a migration background are still underrepresented in German ... -
Das Diskriminierungsverbot im Zivilrecht
(2008-07-08)The present work examines the impotance of discrimination bans in the german civil law. His first part looks into the question of the existence of such bans at international and national ... -
Diskurs und Nachhaltigkeit
(2004-05-12)The Dissertation integrates the discourse on sustainable development into the discourse theory of Jürgen Habermas. Starting from a theory of argumentation the dissertation corrects Habermas´ ... -
Divergenz und Konvergenz ausgewählter Marktforschungsmethoden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Marken
(2009-08-20)Strong brands create clear impressions across social groups and are distinguished by means of unique selling propositions. But what is a brand? Intelligence, for example, is measured by an ... -
Diversity Management in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen.
(2022-08-08)In the course of increasing heterogeneity within society, triggered, for example, by demographic change, the increased influx of people with international histories, or the changing distribution of roles in partner ... -
Do migrant remittances matter? Nature, determinants and impacts of remittances to Pakistan
(2015-07-08)This thesis is a collection of studies, which analyze the macro- and micro-economic aspects of the nature of migrant remittances to Pakistan and their economic impacts on the recipient households’ consumption and asset ... -
Doing Well by Doing Good? New Insights into the Firm Value Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility
(2016-11-09)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a substantial firm investment. However, the firm value implications of CSR, i.e., whether doing good aligns with doing well, are still a topic of hot debate in practice and ... -
Doing-Using-Interacting-Mode. Wirtschaftspolitische Folgerungen zum Lern- und Innovationsverhalten von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
(2018-12-19)The promotion of innovations activities is a central element of a successful economic policy. Innovation researchers and policy makers have so far mainly dealt with the learning and innovation behavior of research- and ... -
Double Deterrence and International Mediation
(2018-03-15)The existing research on nuclear deterrence generally focuses on direct deterrence between the parties of a conflict, such as nuclear deterrence between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Even after the Cold ... -
Dynamic Language Bindings for C Libraries with emphasis on their application to R
(2013-10-31)Scripting languages are becoming increasingly prevalent as a tool for rapid application development. However, numerous efficient “best-practice” software solutions are initially available as C libraries. Scripting ... -
Dynamics of Social and Individual Preferences: Evidence from Madagascar
(2021-07-27)Every day individuals make different decisions that reflect their individual and social preferences. Until not long ago, individual preferences were at the center of the economic theory. Now, social preferences are also ... -
Dynamiken in der Gruppenbildung der Kurden durch nationalstaatliche Prozesse
(2010-08-26)This academic approach examines, explains and drafts processes that created and helped organizing kurdish formation of groups in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan aiming to an explanation for ... -
Early Marriage and Its Effects on Girls' Education in Rural Ethiopia: The Case of Mecha Woreda in West Gojjam, North-Western Ethiopia
(2005-08-05)This study examines issues pertaining to early marriage and its effects on girls' education in rural Ethiopia, with special reference to Mecha Woreda in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, where ... -
Econometric studies on flexible modeling of developing countries in growth analysis
(2012-05-25)Over the last four decades, several methods for selecting the smoothing parameter, generally called the bandwidth, have been introduced in kernel regression. They differ quite a bit, and although there already exist ... -
Economic development and de-carbonization paths: Micro and macro perspectives from Indonesia
(2014-11-26)The three essays of this dissertation associate topics on economic development and climate change. All essays discuss the general topic on how to link rising income level and environmental trade-offs, focusing on CO2 ... -
Economic effects of occupational regulation
(2018-12-18)This thesis is motivated by the wish to balance the public debate on regulation. It aims to teach public and policy-makers about the seen und unseen effects as well as regulatory options of a particular form of regulation ... -
Economic Forecasting. Experimental Evidence on Individual Biases, Group Cooperation and Herd Behavior
(2014-07-25)Economic Forecasting. Experimental Evidence on Individual Biases, Group Cooperation and Herd Behavior -
Economic Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Measurement Issues.
(2016-09-27)Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people. The idea of equality is as old as the democracy itself, and besides instrumental reasons for valuing ... -
Effect Separation in Regression Models with Multiple Scales
(2017-06-12)Confounding problems in regression analysis arise when one or more third variables are simultaneously associated with both the covariates and the response variables under consideration. Even when these confounders are ... -
Effects of decoupling direct payments on agricultural production and land use in individual member states of the European Union
(2008-06-26)Decoupling of direct payments to farmers has probably been one of the most discussed issues in the agricultural environment within the last years. Regarding the European Union s (EU) new ... -
Der Einfluss der Ertragsbesteuerung auf Unternehmensakquisitionen - Eine Untersuchung von Steuerwirkungen anhand von Transaktions- und Finanzdaten deutscher Kapitalgesellschaften zwischen 1997 und 2008
(2018-12-06)Investments in the form of acquisitions have a strong strategic and financial relevance for the acquirer. From the view of the vendor, the sale will result in a significant restructuring of assets which allows to change ... -
Der Einfluss jugendlicher Sozialisationserfahrungen auf ausgewählte Aspekte der politischen Identität im Erwachsenenalter
(2009-12-15)One of the central subjects of political and social research is the impact of socialization during childhood and adolescence on political identity of the adult. Main issue of the current ... -
Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitsvariablen auf den Sunk-Cost-Effekt: Eine kritische Replikation und Erweiterung
(2017-03-15)The sunk cost effect describes the irrational tendency to make decisions about the continuation of an endeavor or the use of an object, depending on whether and to which extend sunk costs have incurred. This can imply ... -
Der Einfluss wirksamer Compliance-Überprüfung mit Hilfe sicherer Hinweisgebersysteme auf die Unternehmenskultur
(2010-07-09)More and more companies use whistle-blowing systems as part of their corporate compliance to increase transparency, and for the purpose of preventing business crime. This thesis states how whistle-blowing systems are ... -
Einzelhandel und Konsumkultur
(2002-04-26)The increasing internationalization of retail formats leads to the question wheater there is a cultural and space specific relation between the on the one hand selected and realized concept ... -
Emotionen und Erlebnisse beim Public Viewing
(2010-06-02)The dissertation presents a fundamental contribution of sports sciences to a current and socially significant discourse. Television broadcastings of socially relevant events have long been ... -
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Energy Economic Policy Instruments from the Residential and SMEs Sector
(2020-04-16)This dissertation analyzes the effectiveness of different energy economic policy instruments for carbon dioxide emission reductions. To this end, evidence on the effectiveness of energy economic policy instruments on ... -
Empirical Studies on Migration
(2023-10-02)Research over the past decades has documented growing migration flows worldwide; and specifically increased immigration into developed countries of the global north. Against this background, this thesis investigates the ... -
Employees' Acceptance of Smart Watches in Germany
(2023-10-12)More and more companies rely on smart watches in their processes and equip their employees with them. Smart watches promise a variety of benefits for both employers and employees. These include simplifying information ... -
Employment and Micro and Small Enterprises
(2020-01-16)This cumulative dissertation analyses the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries and their role in the creation of productive employment and decent work. It consists of four independent ... -
Energiebilanz bei Forstwirten
(2015-12-14)The lack of physical activity and its consequences currently constitute an exploratory focus in sport science. In most cases studies focus on occupational groups working sedentary whilst being overweight. Professions with ... -
Die Entstehung der koreanischen Chaebol
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Die Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Tagespresse nach 1945. Bruch oder Übergang?
(2004-08-25)The press history of Eastgermany, which started with the end of the world war II, was in the dominating research described as a complete restart: The media history research assumed that the ... -
Entwicklung eines Beratungsprogramms zur Förderung der emotionalen Intelligenz im Kindergarten
(2012-08-29)This study was concerned with the emotional intelligence, its promotion in kindergarten, and the relationship between this promotion and the qualification of teachers in kindergarten. The study was divided into two sections, ... -
Entwicklung eines Evolutionären Algorithmus zur Preisoptimierung für kleine und mittlere Handelsunternehmen
(2018-12-12)The present thesis deals with the price optimization of retail companies and the associated challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises. Above all in the German trade market the price represents one of the central ... -
Entwicklung eines modularen Rehabilitationsverfahrens für Patienten mit Zustand nach Polytrauma der unteren Extremitäten auf der Grundlage sportwissenschaftlicher Gesetzmäßigkeiten
(2004-03-25)On the basis of the discussion of injury mechanisms at the movement apparatus, further contents relevant to the topic such as biomechanical basics, medical rehabilitation and the legal basis ... -
Entwicklung interkultureller Kompetenz in Deutsch als Fremdsprachenunterricht
(2012-07-04)Debated across disciplines - "Intercultural Competence" - is perceived nowadays not only as a highly topical construct but also as a controversial one. The approach to the intercultural competence development, which could be ... -
Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Computerprogramms zur Förderung töpferischer Fähigkeiten bei Grundschülern
(2004-05-05)Working with clay is one of the oldest means with which children may discover, learn or experience their physical, mental and sensual abilities. These personal experi-ences of forming clay ... -
Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Lernstilinventars für das musikalische Lernen (Lernen und Üben mit Musikinstrumenten), nach dem Modell von Schmeck
(2005-11-17)Learning and/or lifelong learning represents a challenge in our time. Learning should not only take place as teacher-oriented in formal educational institutions, but also the learners ... -
Entwicklungsverläufe akademischer Selbstkonzepte und schulischer Leistungen nach dem Übergang in differentielle Lernumwelten der Sekundarstufe I
(2010-08-27)In Germany students change to a tracked system of Secondary school after Primary school. For students attending the Gymnasium the higher class-average achievement leads to lower academic ... -
Equality of Pays and Wage Behaviours: Micro and Macro Perspectives of Indonesia Labour Market
(2020-03-09)This dissertation analyses labour market imperfections from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives, and incorporates empirical examinations of equality of pays and wage behaviours drawing on the Indonesian labour ... -
Erbabgeordnete in Japan - Entstehung und Zukunft eines Rekrutierungspfades
(2006-08-17)In this doctor thesis the political recruitment in Japan is investigated. The thesis has its focus on so called politicians by inheritage (seshûdaigishi). A term that can be used for every ... -
Erlebnismarketing für die Besucher von Sportveranstaltungen
(2003-01-08)Sport-events have been changing into commercial areas in which several functions for the visitor and Spectator have been maintained. The core-product of a Sport-Event like a game of the ... -
Ernährungsverhalten und Essstörungsgefahr bei den chinesischen Jugendlichen
(2008-09-30)Background:There are raising reports in China about psychological and psychosomatic disorders among youth with China's economic development, for example eating disorders. Studies in ... -
Erwerbstätig oder Hausfrau?
(2013-06-20)Over the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s the female employment in Europe increased while simultaneously there was a decline of male employment. However in spite of the policy change towards an “adult worker model” women are more ... -
“Es sind Deutsche, in unseren Augen sowjetische Satelliten...”: Christdemokratische Grundwerte der Adenauer-CDU im Spiegel der deutsch-deutschen Teilung und in Ableitung auf den realsozialistischen Osten (1945 bis 1966)
(2012-08-29)The dissertation of Karolina Lang-Vöge is entitled “‘They are Germans, from our point of view, Soviet satellites... ’ : Christian democratic values in the Adenauer-CDU reflected by the division of Germany and in regard ... -
Essays about Prerequisites for the Regulation of Risk Communication in Supply Chains with Respect to the European Community Regulation on Chemicals REACH (EC) No 1907/2006
(2017-07-11)The European Community Regulation on Chemicals (REACH) is supposed to be a modern and intelligent regulation. It entered into effect on June 1, 2007 and remains in its implementation phase. The modern and intelligent aspects ... -
Essays in Behavioral Labor Economics
(2017-11-22)The dissertation presents a collection of essays that deal with behavioral aspects on labor markets and focus especially on social interactions. Each Chapter from 2 to 5 represents one separate project/essay. In this general ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Development Economics and Global Health
(2023-10-02)The chapters in this dissertation provide insights into different aspects of the SDG research agenda. The chapters also both incorporate publicly available secondary data sources as well as newly collected survey data. ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Democracy and Education
(2016-05-04)Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for ... -
Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics
(2015-09-17)This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Poverty, Inequality and Political Economy
(2017-06-26)The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy that impacts democratic rights of millions of individuals in India. The first two papers are based on ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Comparing Poverty Measures, Gender Differences in Subjective Well-being, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Pakistan
(2018-08-09)This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan. All papers use current methods and approaches of the relevant literature and ... -
Essays on Development and Behavior Economics: An Impact Evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” - Conditional Cash Transfer on Education and the Effect of Leadership Identity on Group Cooperation and Elite Capture
(2014-06-18)The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called “Bolsa Família”. We analyze the impacts of the program on two ... -
Essays on Digital Buisiness Strategy Execution in the Financial Services Industry
(2020-01-13)During the last decade, digital technologies became an integral part of our everyday life. This development highlights the phenomenon of digitalization; the sociotechnical impact of digital technologies to transforms entire ... -
Essays on effects of policy interventions in the realm of food standards, trade, and the German labour market
(2017-03-31)The first three essays (Chapters 3, 4, and 5) analyse under which conditions positive or negative effects of standards on trade overweight. We look at the following different determinants: market structure, product ... -
Essays on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
(2007-12-14)Two compelling reasons motivate the work in this dissertation. While enormous literature on developed countries has emerged identifying the determinants of entrepreneurship and its impact, very little is known about ... -
Essays on Food Security and the Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries
(2014-12-19)The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many ... -
Essays on Gender, Migration, and Development
(2018-08-21)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument ... -
Essays on Health and Development: Evidence from Indonesia and South Africa
(2022-10-18)The global burden of disease changed substantially over the past decades. The burden stemming from non-communicable diseases has been rising, particularly in middle-oncome countries, and zoonotic pandemics such as HIV/AIDS ... -
Essays on Industrial and Services Sectors' Agglomeration in the European Union
(2012-02-28)Throughout this dissertation agglomeration and specialization tendencies of both industrial and services sectors in the European Union, the driving forces behind and dynamic developments ... -
Essays on International Migration and Informal Markets in Developing Countries
(2013-09-17)This thesis looks at two topics that have been prominent on the development agenda for more than five decades: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness ... -
Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition
(2022-06-14)Empirical evidence suggests both that market power increased considerably since 1980 (e.g. De Loecker et al., 2020) and that firms differ in destination-specific trade barriers (e.g. Munch and Nguyen, 2014). Motivated by ... -
Essays on Poverty Measurement and Trade
(2016-03-10)The thesis consists of four essays in the broad spectrum of development economics. While the first three essays are in the sphere of poverty measurement, the fourth essay is on the topic of trade and development. In recent ... -
Essays on Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce
(2016-08-18)The motivation for this dissertation is a dual one: On the hand it is methodological, as it introduces new statistical and machine learning approaches, on the other hand it is practical, as these approaches are applied to ... -
Essays on Social Preferences in Children and Adolescents: Experimental Evidence from Colombia and India
(2020-05-11)This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a combination of experimental measures and survey data. Chapter 2 consider the development of motivations for ... -
Essays on Social Preferences in the Contexts of Donations, Migration, Religious Worship and Insurance
(2019-02-04)This cumulative dissertation contributes to a growing literature that analyses how real-world contexts affect behavior. It consists of five independent research papers, shedding light on different aspects of individual and ... -
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 on Technological Change and Trade in Development Economics
(2022-06-16)This thesis analyzes how trade and technological change affect economic development. Chapter 1 investigates how domestic and foreign automation impact an emerging economy. Regions in Brazil which are more exposed to foreign ... -
Essays on the Implications of European Union Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade on African Exports
(2017-05-30)This dissertation investigates the implications of the EU non-tariff measures, focusing on both SPS measures on food safety and technical regulation aspects of TBT that govern the agricultural food sector, and their ... -
Essays on the Informational Benefits of Accounting Standards for Listed Firms
(2017-10-13)Based on three empirical studies, this thesis investigates informational benefits of recent financial accounting regulation for listed firms. From a broad market perspective, the thesis adds to prior research on the ... -
Essays on the Investment and Tax Revenue Effects of Tax Loss Offset Provisions
(2022-10-11)“Investment is the fundamental source of firm value and economic growth.” (Hanlon and Heitzman, 2010, p. 147) Firms decide on investments based on the expected future cash flows. Since existing tax systems are not ... -
Essays on the Media’s Production and Dissemination Role: Evidence from Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure
(2020-05-11)This thesis examines the media’s production and dissemination role. The financial press is an important information intermediary that potentially reaches the largest and most diverse audience among investors and other ... -
Essays on the Real Effects of Tax Reforms
(2021-01-18)This thesis examines the real effects of tax reforms. Policymakers frequently use tax reforms to influence companies’ real economic decisions, e.g. investment decisions. The underlying assumption is that taxes play a ... -
Essays on Women and Historically Disadvantaged Social Groups, and Indian Development Policy
(2019-06-12)The thesis attempts to evaluate three Indian development policies aimed at promoting women and historically disadvantaged social groups. These policies are: job reservation for women in public workfare programs; women's ... -
Essays on Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries
(2019-05-10)Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child ... -
Essays on Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries
(2014-10-08)In our study, we attempt to discuss women’s empowerment in three different essays. In the first essay, we discuss how access to agriculture market by female farmers in Cameroon could improve their own control over the ... -
Estimating and Correcting the Effects of Model Selection Uncertainty
(2006-04-07)Most applied statistical analyses are carried out under model uncertainty, meaning that the model which generated the observations is unknown, and so the data are first used to select one of a set of plausible models by ... -
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 ... -
Estimating impact in empirical microeconomics: Two applications for the case of Tajikistan and a simulation study
(2013-02-07)The three chapters of this dissertation all deal with some aspect ofquantitative impact evaluation in a microeconomic context. The first chapter investigates the effects of labor migration from Tajikistan on household ... -
Estimation and Inference in Special Nonparametric Models with Applications to Topics in Development Economics
(2012-07-04)Semiparametric additive regression models relax the common assumption of covariate effects to have a known functional form specified by some polynomial. These models only assume that relationships are smooth and are ... -
Europäische Öffentlichkeit durch "policy-frames"
(2017-06-16)Europe needs its public sphere not only for further integration, but also to avoid disintegration in the European Union. This matter is essential particularly in times of economic and refugee crisis, because in such times ... -
Europäische Rechnungslegungsharmonisierung: Vergleichende Analyse zwischen Finnland und Deutschland
(2003-06-25)Finnish accounting standards and practice are hardly known to the German public. Therefore, Finnish accounting tradition and today's standard setters and accounting law are presented to the ... -
Europäisierung deutscher Migrationspolitik
(2012-07-31)Facing global migration movements, there seems to be no doubt anymore that Germany today has become an immigration country. During the last years increasingly the development of a common migration area can be observed. In ... -
Evaluation über die Effektivität eines strukturierten Trainingsprogramms zur Behandlung des chronischen Fatigue-Syndroms bei Brustkrebspatientinnen
(2011-03-08)In the current study the effectivness of a structured training program on chronic fatigue in breast cancer patients was investigated. It was shown that the training program had positiv ... -
Evaluation von Bildungsprojekten auf der Grundlage von Inventaren
(2013-08-26)This dissertation resulted from a project sponsored by the European Commission (eL3- e Learning Project Cluster for Third System Organizations in Europe). The author of this study was one of the scientists working in this ... -
Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study
(2017-04-24)The thesis „Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study“ analyzes the individuals' decision-making and the role of institutions in creating incentives and influencing individuals' choices. The first part ... -
Eine explorative Studie des chinesischen Bio-Konsums
(2015-10-27)This paper presents the results of a doctoral study within the program “Biodiversity and Society” of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Georg-August University, Göttingen. Food safety and organic consumption are ... -
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 ... -
„Fake News“ in der Online-Kommunikation
(2023-08-07)For as long as anyone can remember, fake news has been a central problem for the formation of individual and public opinion. Today, the effect of widespread disinformation is amplified by the technical possibilities of ... -
Familiäre und schulische Beiträge zur Leseförderung: Eine vergleichende Interventionsstudie
(2011-11-16)This thesis dealt with reading promotion at Grade 4. The development and evaluation of three reading programs with respect to their effectiveness was a primary concern in order to generate ... -
Family Members, Not Workers
(2019-03-14)This study aims to understand how family caregivers experience their roles as family care helpers (FCHs). These FCHs are qualified as such within the long-term care insurance (LTCI) programme that South Korea implemented ...