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Die Macht der Artefakte
(2018-08-02)For several years now, an area of anthropological research under the umbrella of ‘Material Culture Studies‘ has increasingly addressed the understanding of things. Questions under investigation include how relationships ... -
Mandat und Treuhand im Völkerrecht
(2004-02-26)This thesis deals with the concepts of mandate and trusteeship in international law. In the first historical part of the thesis the legal and historic roots of both concepts are reviewed. ... -
Manifestierte Ungleichheitsstrukturen
(2006-12-11)This historical, theory-governed and empiric analysis theorizes gainful employment and political participation as the two central crystallization areas of the public at large, looked at ... -
Marketing the sustainable - Fostering behavioral intentions through information transparency
(2022-07-01)Reshaping our diets to sustainable forms represents a powerful lever in meeting the impending challenge of climate change. While labels have predominantly been used in the past to reveal sustainability-related product ... -
Marketing-Management in den deutschen und den ägyptischen Sportverbänden.
(2003-11-14)The sport federations stand in competition with other federations, with commercial and new leisure enterprises. The sport federations compete with the other federations for members potenial members, spectators ... -
Measuring European Economic Integration
(2014-03-13)The three essays of this dissertation contribute to the measurement of European economic integration and investigate the welfare effects of the European countries. The first study presents a newly developed index – the EU ... -
Medien, Journalismus und Public Relations
(2001-06-13)The central issue of the present study is the system theory of Niklas Luhmann that within the last three decades became the mainstream of scientific media, journalism and public relations ... -
Messung der Vulnerabilität der Armut - Eine statistische Analyse mit deutschen Paneldaten
(2012-11-06)In order to reduce poverty it is clearly of interest to identify, not only those households that are poor, but also those that are at risk of becoming poor, i.e. vulnerable to poverty. In this research, the accuracy of ... -
Methoden und Mittel zur Verbesserung des statischen und dynamischen Muskelverhaltens bei haltungsbedingten Beschwerden:ein Trainings- und bewegungswissenschaftlicher Vergleich zwischen haltungsverbessernden, sensomotorischen Einlegesohlen und einem gesundheitsorientiertem, rehabilitativen Muskelaufbautraining
(2008-04-30)The aim of this study was to detect whether the sensomotoric system or rather the muscle state can be influenced by the external effects of posture-improving Sensomotoric Insoles and/or a rehabilitatives muscle ... -
Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict and the Duration of Armed Groups
(2013-09-30)Political instability and political violence have been a major hindrance for development in developing and transition countries. Development and progress for countries is hard to achieve under the presence of armed conflict, ... -
Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education
(2015-06-22)This dissertation contains economic microanalyses of voting, regulation and higher education. It is about individual decisions, institutions, and the incentives the latter create. Three chapters of this dissertation are ... -
Microeconomic Analyses of the Causes and Consequences of Political Violence
(2015-07-28)Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development ... -
Microenterprise Performance and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico
(2017-07-12)Microenterprises dominate the economic landscape in Mexico and are the main employment and income providers of people that are vulnerable to poverty. The overreaching research question of this thesis is how microenterprise ... -
Migration und Migrationspolitik im Zuge des Transformationsprozesses seit 1989 – am Beispiel Polen.
(2015-09-03)In political science Poland is a popular choice for transformation research, either in comparative investigations or individual case studies. It is far less usual for the country to be employed as a subject of migration ... -
Migrationsstress, Alter und Lernen - Betrachtungen der Zusammenhänge sowie Implikationen für die Didaktik (am Beispiel in Deutschland lebender, gealterter türkischstämmiger Menschen)
(2011-08-10)This work deals with the concept of knowledge transfer with relation to elderly immigrants with language barriers. Using the grounded theory as both a scientific theoretical basis for empirical hypotheses and as developmental ... -
Mobile Applications from a Value in Use Perspective and their Impact on Retailing
(2021-06-25)With the rise of smartphone use during shopping, retail management has begun to exploit their newfound strategic opportunity to connect with customers via mobile applications. Accordingly, a current subject of academic and ... -
Modeling Approaches in Educational Research
(2017-02-03)This dissertation focuses on three different questions in the field of education, using the method of theoretical modeling. The subject discussed first refers to the existence of tuition fees. If the personal question of ... -
Modernisierung und Erweiterung des staatlichen Bildungswesens in Taiwan im Zeitraum von 1885 bis 1987
(2012-01-09)This paper contributes to the historical research into modernization and expansion of public education in Taiwan between 1885 and 1987 from the establishment of the province of Taiwan ... -
Moment Risk Premiums in Option Markets: On Measurement, Structure, and Investment Implications
(2021-11-16)Rational investors are in general risk averse. An important implication of this risk aversion is that investors may demand compensation for certain risks they take – risk premiums. Moment risk premiums are an example of ... -
Money demand in dollarized countries: an empirical investigation
(2010-05-28)This thesis deals about money demand functions for a broad monetary aggregates in dollarized countries. The countries under consideration are Paraguay, Peru and Argentina. Empirical models ... -
Motivation & Motivierung zum Alterssport
(2004-12-09)Due to a lack of theoretical funding of both, sport- and exercise-related research on motivation and the field of investigation 'sport and exercise in advanced age', this thesis develops a ... -
Motivation von Seniorinnen und Senioren zur sportlichen Betätigung: Eine empirische Untersuchung mittels qualitativer Interviews in und um Göttingen.
(2015-07-22)This dissertation aims at solving the question why some seniors start participating in sporting activities while others remain inactive. A focus on the target group of senior citizens is of growing importance due to ... -
Multi-criteria Decision Making for Energy System Evaluation
(2022-04-01)Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a field of knowledge in Operations Research that can help decision-makers make transparent and auditable decisions in a logical manner. It offers methods that help to choose suitable ... -
Multidimensional Perspectives on Poverty
(2016-10-24)Concurrent to the widespread use of traditional income or consumption based measures for determining human development, there has been growing interest in the economics of happiness since the late 70s. Likewise, there is ... -
Multikriterielle Bewertung von Technologien zur Bereitstellung von Strom und Wärme
(2010-09-29)The present thesis deals with how decisions concerning the future energy supply can be effectively, transparently and comprehensibly supported, against the backdrop of sometimes conflicting ... -
Musicking in Groningen.
(2013-09-30)This study focuses on the uses and functions of music in the life of individuals in the province of Groningen at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The study is an ethnomusicological study representing the ... -
My Friend, the Content Creator: Consequences of Parasocial Relationships for Engagement in Emerging Social Media
(2022-07-12)Emerging social media, denoted by the proliferation and commodification of user-generated content, continue to play a vital role in shaping firm and consumer behavior. In this context, consumer engagement depicts the core ... -
Nationale und regionale Identität von Fernsehprogrammen. Eine Analyse der Programminhalte von ZDF, ORF 2, BR und MDR.
(2012-01-16)Already Benedict Anderson pointed out in his very influential work Imagined Communities what a powerful role mass communication can play in the development of modern nations.In Germany ... -
Naturerfaheungen bei elektronisch unterstützer Lernumgebung, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von arabischen Kinder in Deutschland
(2011-08-16)This dissertation is concerned with the support of experiences of children at the age of 4 to 8 years when sowing, supplying and harvesting bush beans by a teaching program and an instructional ... -
Netzwerk-Kommunikation als Bedingung von Identitätsbildung in Unternehmen
(2007-05-15)The starting point of my thesis is the Corporate Identity Approach. The Corporate Identity Approach originated in the 1970s and many people in leading positions, consultants and managers ... -
New Insights into the Effectiveness of Front-of-Package Nutrition Label Formats: Situational Processing Perspective
(2018-10-01)Abstract: Nutrition labeling literature yields fragmented results about the effect of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label formats on healthy food choice. Specifically, it is unclear which type of nutrition label ... -
Das niederländische Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht
(2010-09-20)The dissertation examines enforcement under Dutch law. The first part of the dissertation gives an overview over this specific law with its conditions and procedure. The second part is ... -
Nutrition and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evaluation of Three Micronutrient Interventions
(2017-07-12)Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to ... -
Okonometrische Verfahren zur Messung von Segregation und Lohndiskriminierung - eine theoretische und empirische Studie
(2013-01-31)In most economies males earn higher wages than females. The question is whether this wage gap is due to discrimination or not. The dominant approach is the human capital theory by Becker and Mincer. It means that workers ... -
On some special-purpose hidden Markov models
(2011-05-11)Hidden Markov models (HMMs) provide flexible devices for modelling time series of observations that depend on underlying serially correlated states. They constitute a specific class of ... -
On the credibility of macroeconomic reform and stabilization policies
(1999)The formation of macroeconomic policy is conceptualized as on-going process of interaction between private individuals and a centralized policymaker. This interaction is inherently strategic in nature and lends itself to ... -
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 ... -
On the role of financial derivatives for the genesis and analysis of volatility in commodity markets
(2016-04-27)Food price volatility has re-emerged as an important topic of political discussion since the food price crisis of 2007/08. Not only the observation of increasing price levels but also their apparent increased volatility ... -
Opening the Black Box
(2020-06-05)This doctoral dissertation teases out how scientific knowledge in interdisciplinary collaborative teams is learned, shared and integrated in scientists' minds and in their daily interpersonal communications. This work is ... -
Operational Risk Management - Implementing a Bayesian Network for Foreign Exchange and Money Market Settlement
(2005-09-09)Operational risk losses in the financial industry usually occur at the business unit (micro) level and are due to weak management oversight, weak internal controls or the lack of it, or to ... -
Organization and Incentivization of Risk Management
(2022-03-22)Risk management is accepted as relevant for success of organizations and stability of the whole economy. Therefore, an organization of an appropriate risk management system is mandatory in many countries, especially for ... -
Der Ostseerat - ein Beitrag zur Zivilisierung des internationalen Systems?
(2007-10-18)The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) was founded as a consequence of the global political change during the years 1989/90. Although it is a high-ranking organization, consisting of ... -
Outside the Wire: Foucault's Ethics and the Canadian Military
(2012-09-24)Foucault believed an ethical person developed through “self forming activity” and the exercise of free will. Foucault’s theories on ethics and power-knowledge, however, can be viewed as a contradiction. The problem, say ... -
Öffentliche Videoüberwachung in den USA, Großbritannien und Deutschland
(2006-10-30)In spite of the worldwide increasing use of video technology for providing public safty and order, the use of public camera surveillance varies among Great Britain, Germany and United States. ... -
Die ökonomische Kompensation im Scheidungsfolgenrecht von Chile und die ehelichen Lebensverhältnisse beim nachehelichen Unterhalt im deutschen Recht
(2007-05-10)This article provides a comparison of the institution of Chilean marriage laws, called economic compensation (article 61 et seq. of the Civil Marriage Law)--a usually unique payment that ... -
Palästinensische Familien in den Flüchtlingslagern im Westjordanland: Eine empirische Studie zum kollektiven Gedächtnis und den transgenerationellen Folgen von Flucht und Vertreibung
(2020-12-10)The label "Palestinian refugees" with reference to the right of return is generally reserved for those Palestinians who have fled or were displaced from their homes in the context of the wars of 1948 and 1967, but also for ... -
Parentalité et travail familial en France et en Allemagne - le parentalisme, nouveau mode de régulation ? -
(2003-05-14)The contemporary evolutions of the family and their dynamics are the starting point of our research. Our object is to show how these changes have placed the relations between the child and ... -
Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Analysis with Non-metric Variables for Composite Indices
(2015-08-28)A composite index is an aggregated variable comprising individual indicators and weights that commonly represent the relative importance of each indicator. Composite indices are often used to measure latent phenomena or ... -
Path-dependent Risk Measures - Theory and Applications
(2021-01-22)This dissertation addresses various key aspects in risk measurement with path-dependent risk measures. In contrast to most classical risk measures like value-at-risk, (semi-)variance, expected shortfall, or lower partial ... -
Patienten- und Bürgerbeteiligung im Gesundheitswesen Deutschlands, Finnlands und Polens
(2006-11-08)The thesis explores forms and political objectives of patient and citizen involvement in different European health care systems. In particular, it focuses on how the program of user ... -
Peacebuilding der Vereinten Nationen. Der Wandel in der Friedenssicherungspraxis der internationalen Gemeinschaft und die Veränderung staatlicher Souveränität
(2014-01-21)When general secretary Boutros-Ghali presented the Agenda for Peace in 1992, he introduced the concept of post-conflict peace-building, thereby extending the United Nation’s existing instruments for maintaining international ... -
Perspektiven des Hochschulsports als Marke der Universität
(2014-08-06)Academic Sport Services are an essential part of university culture, student life and academic education at many institutions of higher education, while at some places such as the University of Göttingen they have been ... -
Perspektiven von Arbeit in der Chemischen Industrie.
(2004-09-21)In this paper, the author analyses the process of realizing a reorganisation project in a large-scale company of the chemical industry, in which an innovative form of group work was decided ... -
Petro-Democracy
(2018-09-13)In 2008, Niger signed an oil contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) over the Agadem oil block located in the far eastern region of Diffa; and in 2011, they inaugurated the country’s first and only oil ... -
Planung und Begrenzung der gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik nach der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union
(2009-09-15)The importance of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) has increased permanently since its establishment. Through the adoption of the European Security ... -
Political Determinants of Foreign Aid and International Trade
(2012-09-27)This rise of emerging economies is visible in international development cooperation and international trade. Aid contributions from donor countries operating outside of the established group of the OECD’s Development ... -
Political Economy in a globalized world
(2015-06-12)This cumulative dissertation contains three papers. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth. We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the ... -
Die Politisierung der ethnischen Differenz
(2004-06-16)The thesis examines processes of ethnic mobility under the conditions of the transition of former Soviet Republics, which are characterised by the existence of a large Russian minority ... -
Portfolio Strategies with Classical and Alternative Benchmarks
(2018-07-19)This dissertation addresses different key elements in portfolio management. It intends to improve and analyze influences on portfolio strategies and their performance. Likewise, it aims at the systematization and extension ... -
Poverty and Vulnerability in Vietnam
(2013-10-23)Since doi moi, Vietnam has made remarkable achievements in many frontiers. However, much effort needs to be done to further improve social and economic sectors, particularly in the context of increasing the number of ... -
Poverty, Inequality and the Decarbonization of Economic Development
(2017-01-13)Low and middle income countries are responsible for more than two thirds of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although climate stabilization is now impossible without effective climate mitigation policies in developing ... -
Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class: The case of South Africa
(2018-10-24)The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the ... -
Power factor typology through organizational and network analysis. Using environmental policy networks as an illustration
(2004-06-14)This work is based on a doctoral research. Our main question is: who can be powerful and when. We assume that power is a function of network and organizational (actor-related) characteristics ... -
Power Mediators and Pure Mediators: Exploring their Impact on Implementing Internal Peace Agreements
(2021-06-15)Recent studies on international mediation have mainly focused on the impact of mediation on armed intra-state conflicts, emphasizing successfully completed ceasefires and peace agreements. Scholars have largely neglected ... -
Privatsphärenschutz vs. Pressefreiheit: Eine rechtvergleichende Untersuchung zum deutschen und russischen Recht im Lichte der EMRK
(2013-09-16)The paper is dealing with the leading principles relevant for the balancing between the right to respect for private life (in particular the right to protect one's personal image) and the freedom of expression. The paper ... -
Probleme aus Sicht von Lehrkräften im Fach Gesellschaftslehre – eine quantitative Untersuchung
(2020-05-29)It was the purpose of this master’s thesis to gain insight into the problems of the interdisciplinary subject Social Studies at Integrated Comprehensive Schools from the teachers’ point of view. For this purpose, an ... -
Die Probleme des Trainings von Gewichthebern im Kindes- und Jugendalter
(2003-11-14)Selected anthropometric, biological and medical features were examined at eleven Weightlifters in Childhood and Adolescence.The main aim of this study was to examine the physical changes ... -
Probleme in Online-Auktionen
(2006-11-13)Online Auction is a new type of e-commerce. It combines the conventional auction model with modern information technology and more and more economic interactions are involved. This paper ... -
Products consisting of materials based on renewable resources: Drivers of purchase intention, consumers' information needs and target groups
(2015-05-20)This thesis is about consumer acceptance of products consisting of materials which are based on renewable resources. The focus is on wood-based materials, including solid wood but also by-products and wood waste, as only ... -
Promises and Perils of Globalization
(2019-02-11)Chapter 1 investigates the role of globalized flows of finance (development aid) and goods (trade). Both factors are of international character and relate to the global perspective. Thus, we choose macro lenses and combine ... -
Prozeßverbesserung der Projektorganisation
(2001-09-06)In this scientific paper we describe from our point of view, a basis for an efficient and flexible concept that we call "Planungsinselkonzept" (PIK). This concept is based on project ... -
Publizistische Kontroversen über den Holocaust im Film.
(2001-05-09)After the transmission of the US-American series Holocaust in 1979 there was talk of a "caesura in the Germans dealing with their National Socialism". But the series Holocaust (Marvin Chomsky, USA 1978) does not represent ... -
Qualitätsmanagement in der Jugend- und Sozialhilfe
(2005-08-15)The study deals with the context, multidisciplinary connections, organization, acceptance and benefit assessment of quality management in social services and especially examines the tool ... -
Quality Assurance Systems in the Agri-Food Chain
(2008-05-30)Food quality and security management systems represent one of the major challenges for the European agri-food chain. The BSE crisis and the agricultural chain ( Agrarwende ) as well as ... -
Quantification of Potential Ecological Impacts of Road Transport
(2014-07-28)Throughout the world land use and fragmentation are among the major causes of the de-struction of habitats and the resulting loss of biological diversity. Road use in general and road haulage in particular significantly ... -
Question Format, Response Effort, and Response Quality
(2018-08-31)In empirical social research, using questions with an agreement/disagreement scale, also known as agree/disagree (A/D) questions, is a very popular technique for measuring attitudes. Major national and international surveys, ... -
Rationalität und Qualität von Wirtschaftsprognosen
(2015-05-19)Economic forecasts are utilized to decrease uncertainty relating to planning processes of companies and governments. Empirical research shows evidence that the level of forecast quality is generally rather poor. In order ... -
Re-Making Social Europe After the Great Recession
(2023-04-20)At the beginning of the year 2012, Social Europe was in ruins. Austerity in peripheral member states, especially in Southern Europe, and the adoption of new and strict fiscal consolidation policies in the euro area had led ... -
Die Rechtsnachfolge im Polizeirecht
(2009-03-18)This work examines examples of the decontamination duty of legal succession in police law. It deals with the decontamination responsibilities of the legal successors for the hazardous soil ... -
Rechtstransfer durch Praktikerliteratur am Beispiel des polnischen Juristen Bartholomäus Groicki (um 1534 ― 1605)
(2024-03-21)The dissertation presents the life and work of a Polish jurist fron Cracow, Bartholomus Groicki. Groicki was a learned jurist, who dedicated his professional life to the jurisdiction of Cracow, and an author of several ... -
Rechtstransfer im Fokus. Die Übertragung europäischen Rechts im Bereich der Gleichbehandlung von Frauen und Männern im Rahmen des Erweiterungsprozesses nach Bulgarien und Rumänien
(2011-02-24)The European enlargement towards East European countries started right after the fundamental changes, which took place in the beginning 1990s. Since then, Bulgaria and Romania as well as ... -
References and Preferences: New insights in food decision making
(2015-03-18)Consumers’ food preferences have led to a worldwide overweight rate of 35% in 2008. It is a matter of fact that overweight is closely linked to unhealthy eating habits. Most existing nutrition labels contain reference ... -
Reflections on Text Mining Approaches in Corporate Failure Prediction based on German Financial Statements
(2023-05-05)The field of corporate risk assessment is in a state of flux due to society's increased expectations of statistical methods, which are classified as part of the field of machine learning. While in earlier times multivariate ... -
Der Regenwald ist unser Haus. Die Orang Rimba auf Sumatra zwischen Autonomie und Fremdbestimmung
(2012-10-30)The Orang Rimba are a group of semi-nomadic forest dwellers living in Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia). For the Orang Rimba the rainforest is a world of gods, spirits and resources, in which life follows its own laws. The rain ... -
Regional integration processes: Four studies about convergence, growth and monitoring tools
(2010-07-15)Since the end of the Cold War the number of free trade and preferential partnership agreements has been increasing worldwide. A large part of these treaties are made between developing- and ... -
Regulation of Disclosure and Corporate Governance: An Empirical Investigation of Economic Consequences
(2016-11-10)The level of regulation of disclosure and corporate governance on the national and supranational level has increased substantially in the last decade. With that in mind, and in the light of the demand for evidence-based ... -
Rehabilittives Krafttraining zur Behandlung tumorassoziierter Fatigue unter Einbeziehung zirkadianrhythmischer Aspekte während und nach stationärer Rehabilitation
(2011-09-26)The part of concerned patients in cancer-related fatigue is still constantly high. Because of the limiting character, cancer-related fatigue is one of the unpleasent adverse reactions of ... -
Reporting by Non-Listed Companies on Corporate Social Responsibility
(2024-01-30)In the first study, I empirically investigate the association between ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) preferences of external and internal non-shareholder stakeholders and mandatory CSR reporting in a setting of ... -
Resource Flows and Technology Adoption in Tamale, Ghana: Implications for Urban and Peri-Urban Vegetable Growers
(2018-12-19)Vegetable farming in Ghana`s urban areas is mostly a sustainable livelihood strategy. Alt-hough it is considered a means of survival for the poor, vegetable farming is practiced by urban dwellers across the income spectrum. ... -
Responsible Consumer Behavior in the Digital Age
(2022-09-22)In recent years, consumers have become more sensitive to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of their market choices. More and more consumers vocally oppose socially irresponsible production patterns and ... -
Retail Innovation – The User Acceptance of Mobile Service Technologies and the Effect on Retailer
(2019-05-27)The usage of smartphones is on the brink of revolutionizing the way people shop and emphasizes the strategic importance of mobile services for retailers. This holds especial importance for the customer interface design ... -
Rettungsszenarien im Widerstreit-
(2009-04-27)Since several years discussions on the Islam shape the political and medial discourses on multiculturalism and integration in Western European immigration societies. The recourse to the ... -
Die Rezeption des Wunders von Bern durch Printmedien in England, Frankreich, Österreich und der Schweiz - ein Beitrag zu einem der Gründungsmythen der Bundesrepublik auf Quellenbasis ausgewählter Tages- und Wochenzeitungen
(2011-06-03)The miracle of Berne ( Wunder von Bern ), which means the highly surprising victory of the Western German football team at the world cup 1954 in Switzerland, has become a fixed term in ... -
Der richterliche Rechtsschutz im Rahmen der Rechtmäßigkeitskontrolle bei Grundrechtseingriffen
(2017-10-26)The criminal dogmatic treatment of and case law doctrine on reasonable grounds in Colombia do not adequately clarify aspects as essential as purpose, need for concretion, precision and determination of reasonable grounds. ... -
Risikosport - interdisziplinäre Annäherung, empirische Befunde und Anwendungsbezüge
(2006-04-27)This dissertation develops an interdisciplinary theory concerning extreme sports. As a foundation, a less scientific approach is used. It will then approach a theoretical and empirical ... -
Risk, Conflict and Challenges in the Context of Emerging Economies
(2012-10-02)Motivated by the growing relevance of the so-called Emerging Economies, this doctoral thesis conducts an empirical analysis grounded in three sub-disciplines of empirical economic research. In three essays, this work ... -
Risks and Risk Premiums in Commodity Markets
(2014-02-21)This PhD thesis investigates risks and risk premiums in commodities markets. Two chapters discuss the risks premium in interconnected electricity markets. One chapter develops a model for price spikes, and the risks of ... -
Risks, Insurance, Shocks: Case Study and Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(2014-07-07)In this dissertation I present novel findings that analyze the effects of insurances on the resilience to shocks and household's risk taking behavior. Moreover, the question is raised as to whether there could actually be ... -
Robo-Advice: The Digitalization and Automation of Financial Advice
(2022-09-30)This cumulative dissertation consists of and critically discusses five peer-reviewed and co-authored publications by me about the digitalization and automation of financial advice, so-called Robo-Advice (RA). The dissertation ... -
Rural Livelihood, Migration, and Human Capital Formation: The Ethiopian Case
(2008-01-25)This dissertation identifies rural livelihood, migration, and human capital formation as the three major elements of rural-urban linkages which help to transform a predominantly agrarian ... -
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Das Scheitern der gesundheitspolitischen Steuerungsversuche der ersten rot-grünen Bundesregierung im Arzneimittelwesen
(2005-12-27)This paper is concerned with an investigation of the health policy of the Social Democratic/ Green Party coalition government during the whole of its first period of office in the years ... -
Das Schengener Informationssystem
(2013-11-01)This doctoral dissertation deals mainly with the first generation of the Schengen information system, SIS. It decribes the way to an European electronic search system, its functionality and its regulatory framework. Items ... -
Schenkungen aus dem Vermögen Betreuter unter rechtsvergleichender Betrachtung der Erwachsenenschutzrechte und deren Entwicklung in Österreich und der Schweiz
(2008-06-13)Donations from the assets of an assisted appear at first glance always exclusively with disadvantages for those affected tainted, but his property without appropriate compensation reduced. ... -
Schulleiterinnen und Schulleiter im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen programmatischen Zielvorgaben und alltäglicher Praxis
(2007-02-21)In the context of this dissertation, the professional approaches of head-teachers were examined. The aim was to reinforce the knowledge of school management activities and at the same time ... -
Schwerkranke und Sterbende auf der Palliataivstation und im Hospiz. Eine vergleichende, verlaufsorientierte Studie von zwei exemplarischen Betreuungsmodellen
(2008-08-07)The primary xobjective of this paper is a comparison of the everday working practice within these two institutional models, the hospice and the palliative floor, with special emphasis on ... -
Selbstorganisation Jugendlicher und Selbstorganisationsförderung durch kommunale Jugendarbeit
(2005-07-12)In the framework of a qualitative study 62 educational specialists were interviewed about their experiences with respect to attempts to help youth organise themselves and with regard to how ... -
Self-writing around 1900
(2019-07-29)This dissertation analyzes the multiplicity and ambiguity of modern, urban identities in New York City around 1900. For this purpose, I take into account works of four writers who lived in New York City. Close reading their ... -
Semi-analytische und simulative Kreditrisikomessung synthetischer Collateralized Debt Obligations bei heterogenen Referenzportfolios
(2006-06-02)Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) have nowadays become an integral part of all asset-backed securities issuances. It is noteworthy that credit derivative-based synthetic CDO structures ... -
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 ... -
Semiparametric Structure Guided by Prior Knowledge with Applications in Economics
(2011-05-27)Among many developments in statistical modelling in recent years, non- and semiparametric methods have proved to be a particularly powerful data-analytic tool. Nevertheless, there still ... -
Sicherstellung bedarfsgerechter pflegerischer Langzeitversorgung in Deutschland
(2023-11-22)In view of demographic change, ensuring long-term care of the elderly is one of the key current and future challenges in Germany. Due to the increasing number of people in need of care, the dissolution of family networks, ... -
Simple Solutions to hard Problems in the Estimation and Prediction of Welfare Distributions
(2011-06-01)The aim of my PhD projects is to investigate various problems in applied parametric and nonparametric estimation, and eventually in prediction. The main focus is on welfare analysis. For instance, in both nonparametric density ... -
Simultane Planung von Investitions- und Finanzierungsprogrammen bei mehrfacher Entscheidungsfolge
(2008-03-20)One of the optimizations theory is the investment financial model which based on both "H. Hax" (1964, Investitions- und Finanzplanung mit Hilfe der linearen Programmierung) and "H. M. Weingartner" (1963, Mathematical ... -
SME Innovation in Regional Innovation Systems
(2023-08-31)This dissertation analyzes innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using the concept of regional innovation systems (RIS). The research shows the heterogeneity of innovation processes in SMEs and regions ...