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The role of university-related intermediation in supporting sustainability transitions in regional innovation initiatives in Germany
(2024-04-05)This dissertation analyzes the roles of university-related intermediation in supporting sustainability transitions in regional innovation initiatives in Germany. Sustainability transitions are required to address grand ... -
The Ties that Bind: Party Social Identity and the Relevance of Ideology for the Chinese Communist Party
(2022-07-19)This thesis seeks to answer the question why ideology still matters for the Chinese Communist Party in its relations with its own members and, importantly, what its purpose is. In other words, it wants to understand how ... -
The visualization, unbiased estimation and interpretation of distributional regression models
(2022-06-20)Distributional regression represents a modern approach to regression modeling that yields the ability to simultaneously connect multiple parameters beyond the mean of any parametric response distribution to structured ... -
Theoretic Essays in Public Economics
(2024-02-09)This dissertation combines four theoretic models in public economics. The first two chapters consider welfare and distributional effects within a general equilibrium trade model with oligopoly focusing on corporate taxation ... -
Theory of Victimization of Educated Women in India: Understanding Experts’ perception of a Cognitive Shift
(2021-03-25)In India, presently, gender-based violence is increasing at an alarming rate but at the same time due to state’s effort female literacy rate rising too. In the light of such scenario, the theory of victimization of educated ... -
Therapieverzicht
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Three Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2013-11-22)This dissertation provides basic economic research in behavioral economics. The leitmotif of all three essays is to study the decision making of individuals applying the method of experimental economics. Each of the presented ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2015-02-09)The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical ... -
Three Essays on Application of Semiparametric Regression: Partially Linear Mixed Effects Model and Index Model
(2012-12-07)The dissertation consists of three essays. The main focus is set on semiparametric regression modeling, which embodies the strength of parametric and nonparametric regression models in terms of flexibility, dimensionality ... -
Three Essays on Indonesian Political Economy: Elite Capture, Corruption, and Female Policy Makers
(2014-12-19)The three essays of this thesis contribute to the understanding of the Indonesian political economy in the era of decentralization. Essay 1 empirically investigates the role of elite capture in the context of an Indonesian ... -
Three Essays on Job Loss Fears and Offshoring
(2014-02-11)The three essays of this dissertation look at the effect of offshoring on individual perceived fear of job loss and the role of job loss fears during wage negotiations. The first essay compares different estimation strategies ... -
Three Essays on the Gender Differentials in Mortality and Undernutrition in Pakistan
(2008-05-21)Child Mortality and Undernutrition are the two major public health problems in the developing world. An associated phenomenon is gender discrimination against the female child. South Asia, in particular, suffers from ... -
Three studies on semi-mixed effects models
(2012-01-05)The applications of non- and semiparametric models are found in nearly all fields of empirical research. Since nonparametric methods do not have restrictive assumptions about the distribution of the observations ... -
Topics in Macroeconomics
(2018-11-26)This dissertation consists of three independent articles. The first chapter “Giants and Midgets: the Effect of Public Goods’ Provision on Urban Population Concentration” analyses population distribution within a system of ... -
Towards an online OR toolkit for humanitarian logistics
(2015-10-07)There are several disasters every year that affect millions of people and trigger the need for relief items such as food, blankets, or tents. Humanitarian logistics networks organize the flow of relief items from various ... -
Trade and Uncertainty
(2014-06-03)The five chapters of this dissertation deal with the topic of trade under different kinds of uncertainty. In the first chapter, the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on exports of European countries is investigated with ... -
Trading Strategies and Return Patterns in Commodity Futures Markets
(2022-06-16)This thesis analyzes commodity futures pricing, trading activities in commodity futures contracts and their use for investment strategies. The aim of this thesis is to fill important gaps in the research field of commodity ... -
Trans* und Elternschaft Wie trans* Eltern normative Vorstellungen von Familie und Geschlecht verhandeln
(2018-11-21)In my thesis I analysed how trans* parents, who had their "coming out" after child birth, negotiate normative concepts of family and gender. It is a quality research on the base of four biographic-narrative interviews. ... -
Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
(2013-12-18)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) and their allocation via competitive tendering processes is an important and innovative instrument in the battle against on-going biodiversity loss. Based on a contractual arrangement ... -
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Insights on Motivational Information Systems and Goal Achievement From a User and Firm Perspective
(2021-03-09)More and more people are integrating motivational information systems (e.g., nutrition apps, fitness trackers or self-improvement websites) in their everyday lives. Such systems utilize design principles from hedonic ...