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A behavioral model of the German compound feed industry
(2002-03-11)What is frustrating for the applied researcher can constitute an interesting result from a theoretical perspective: the fai1ure of all trials to establish a consistent behavioral model of ... -
A Commitment is a Commitment is a Commitment?
(2019-05-29)The study deals with states’ power political behavior towards the International Crim- inal Court (ICC). It argues that states constrain and customize their commitment dependent on their possibilities to solve cooperation ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Development and Globalization
(2015-05-13)There are arguably few topics in current global economic policy as intensely debated as the impact of different facets of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains four essays of which the first two essays analyse the regional and individual persistence of unemployment, while the third essay explores the appropriate design for the amount of grant for cash ... -
A Statistical Approach to Feature Detection and Scale Selection in Images
(2000-12-13)In computer vision "feature detection" refers to some procedure that determines candidate positions at which a particular feature, e.g. an edge or a line, could be located. "Scale selection" aims to find the scale or size ... -
A Strong Conservative Mandate? - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen konservativer Politik am Beispiel der Reformdebatte um Social Security während des 109th United States Congress
(2014-09-02)The successes and setbacks of the Tea Party movement in American national politics over the last few years raise the question under which conditions it is possible to enact conservative policies on the national level in ... -
Die abstrakte Gestaltung von Sicherheiten als elementarer Ausdruck der Privatautonomie
(2012-04-16)Property, as a fundamental institution was, and is the most dynamic source of social, intellectual and cultural development, forming the co-ordination of actions of individuals or collectives as a fundamental problem ... -
Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2023-01-26)The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to evidence on access to care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) – the most common cause of death globally – by a) describing the state of hypercholesterolemia care in a ... -
Accounting and Equity-Based Compensation
(2014-04-03)Executive compensation is still at the forefront of not only academic research, but also policy initiatives, news stories, and nationwide discussions. Much of the intensity of the discussion has been caused by the steep ... -
Activity in Social Media related to Business Events: The Case of Merger Announcements
(2017-01-13)Investors use social media in order to access and exchange information regarding recent events in the business and financial domain. Social media support investors to reduce uncertainty about the implications and the ... -
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 ... -
Adoption and Benefits of Standardized IT Management Processes: IT Executives Perceptions of ITIL and CobiT
(2011-08-31)The aim of this research is to understand how IT executives of different countries implement and perceive IT operational process improvement frameworks. We examine if IT operational frameworks, ... -
Advances and Applications of Experimental Measures to Test Behavioral Saving Theories and a Method to Increase Efficiency in Binary and Multiple Treatment Assignment
(2017-12-22)This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on ... -
Agricultural Transformation and Land-Use Change
(2017-04-28)Human induced land-use change has direct economic and ecological consequences, which are felt the most in the poorest world regions. Therefore, the key question in land-use change research is how to protect and enhance the ... -
Aid, Politics, Culture, and Growth
(2016-01-07)Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the ... -
AKTIKA - Die Aktivitätskapazität von Patienten mit Rückenschmerzen
(2014-02-06)Patients with back pain suffer basically from pain and physical activity limitations. Their performance capacity in physical activities and participation in life is reduced. Also, national and international guidelines for ... -
Die akzessorische Anknüpfung. Grundfragen und Grundprobleme
(2004-09-16)The object of this work was to explain the phenomenon of accessoriness as a connecting factor in Private International Law, to determine it s prerequisites, it s legal and dogmatic base. ... -
Algorithm Aversion and Other Causes of Bias in Decision Behavior
(2022-11-28)The present thesis contributes to the debate on whether the neoclassical economic theory is suitable to describe economic reality. It covers the three topics of algorithm aversion, analysis of capital market forecasts, and ... -
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Economic Behavior and Predictability in Financial Markets
(2023-05-05)Digital transformation is producing a growing number of technological innovations that have an impact on our daily lives. In a variety of areas, economic agents increasingly have the opportunity to interact with algorithms, ... -
Alkoholkonsum Studierender
(2019-11-06)Among all population groups, students consume the most alcohol and other narcotics. The present study examines these findings from the perspective of youth, culture and socialisation theory and provides a critical ... -
Das Altenheim - immer noch eine "Totale Institution" ?
(2004-12-20)The PhD thesis focuses on the concept of the "total institution" which has been developed by Erving Goffman with a mental hospital serving as an example. In principle, the concept claims ... -
‚Alte’ Kompetenzen für neue Geschäftsmodelle?
(2013-09-25)This study focusses on successful corporate adaptation strategies in the transformation process of the East German industry. Despite the broad research on the East German transformation this phenomenon is quite unexplored. ... -
Ambition und Leibdistanz.
(2007-02-07)The interdisciplinary study (pedagogics, sociology, history, literature) looks at the biographies and educational opportunities of social climbers from educationally disadvantaged social ... -
An economic analysis of community-based tourism in Thailand
(2011-04-27)This study constructs a panel data 2003 and 2007, a social accounting matrix (SAM) and a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) in 2007 to investigate the effect of tourism on ... -
Eine Analyse der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998 in Frankreich mit Hilfe einer sportartspezifischen Methode der systematischen Spielbeobachtung
(2004-05-26)Some other factors of the game couldn't be investigated, here, as running of players without ball and the technical and tactical abilities of the goal keeper. These components of the game ... -
Analyse des Sportunterrichts in der Arabischen Republik Ägypten
(2004-10-15)The Egyptian sport didactics has to fight 1. The still which is missing empirical examination of the assumption that the sports facilities for sport instruction are badly equipped, with ... -
Analysis of Implied Volatility Surfaces
(2007-05-30)The volatility of financial assets is an important parameter in risk managemant, portfolio trading and option pricing. Implied volatility (IV) is obtained from the well known Black-Scholes (BS) formula for option pricing, ... -
Analysis of option returns in perfect and imperfect markets
(2020-05-20)The thesis studies index and equity option returns in perfect and imperfect markets to explain parts of the option mispricing puzzle. Perfect markets exist under informational efficiency, market completeness and frictionless ... -
Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments
(2014-07-25)Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments -
Angst und Leistung im Rahmen der Katastrophentheorie - Untersuchungen zum optimalen Erregungsniveau bei Fallschirmspringern
(2004-06-09)This dissertation deals with modelling the relationship of anxiety and sports performance through catastrophe surfaces and with defining an optimal arousal level for skydiving. In a theoretic ... -
Angst vor dem Floating", "Angst vor festen Wechselkursen" und makroökonomische Performance
(2009-09-04)This study examines the reasons for the discrepancy between the exchange rate regime that a country states (de jure exchange rate regime) and the exchange rate regime this country follows in reality (de facto exchange ... -
Anmeldung und Feststellung von Forderungen im Insolvenzverfahren
(2011-04-19)The dissertation analyzes the insolvency proceedings according to §§ 174 ff. InsO. The proceedings of filing and determination of claims are examined. The preconditions for the creation and ... -
Applications of Advanced Time Series Models to Analyze the Time-varying Relationship between Macroeconomics, Fundamentals and Pan-European Industry Portfolios
(2008-05-09)This thesis is concerned with the modeling of time-varying sensitivities in financial markets. Although interest in applying advanced time series techniques, such as the Kalman filter and Markov regime switching models, ... -
Arbeitnehmermitbestimmung in supranationalen Gesellschaftsformen am Beispiel der SPE
(2014-09-30)There is no consistent European solution of worker participation on board level so far. Compromise solutions are necessary to realize under company law projects on a European level (SE, SCE for example). The author analyzes ... -
Arbeitsgerichtliches Schiedsverfahren und zivilrechtliche Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: Harmonisierungsbedürfnisse unter Berücksichtigung neuer Perspektiven für Schiedsgerichte des Arbeitsrechts
(2020-08-27)While the legislature completely revised the Tenth Book of the Code of Civil Procedure in 1997, it deliberately left the provisions of §§ 101 ff. of the Labour Court Act unchanged. The author compares the rules of civil ... -
Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeber
(2000-12-13)Although the comparative labour market research often highlights the importance of the incorporation of trade unions and employers' organisations into the formulation and implementation of ... -
Die Arbeitsplätze deutscher Personaldienstleistungsunternehmen - Arbeitgeberwahrnehmung und Motivationsqualität im Kontext der arbeitssozialen Situation Zeitarbeitender
(2018-05-28)This dissertation addresses one of the least investigated topics in terms of sociological research thus far. The thematic of Temporary Employment and Subcontracted Work has been discussed controversially in the media for ... -
Arbeitspolitischer Pragmatismus
(2021-10-13)Continuous improvement process (CIP) is an essential part of lean production management and integrated production systems. It intends the active participation of all employees in improving process quality and productivity. ... -
Arbeitsteilung der Eltern
(2021-12-10)Family sociological research has so far neglected the importance of child age as an explanation of how parents divide up gainful employment, housework and childcare. It is obvious, however, that an ... -
Arzthaftungsrecht in China--Grundzüge, Entwicklung und Vergleich mit dem deutschen Recht
(2011-07-20)This doctoral thesis mainly described the Chinese law about medical malpractice. Besides a summarizing overview of German medical malpractice law, the author reported on the development, ... -
Assessing Flagship Store Effectiveness
(2017-04-25)This thesis covers (i) the application of the flagship store in the fast-moving consumer goods industry as a communication tool, (ii) the inclusion of future brand-directed consumer behavior (i.e., future brand loyalty, ... -
Asset Allokationsentscheidungen auf Basis höherer Momente und impliziter Informationen
(2014-02-20)Modern portfolio theory, which goes back to the seminal work by Markowitz (1952), focuses on the question of how an investor should allocate her wealth among different assets . Theory suggests that an investor should build ... -
Assimilation Over the Life Course?
(2016-05-24)In recent years, migration and migrant assimilation have returned to the center of public debate in Germany, and as the number of immigrants has risen steadily, the insights of migration scholars into migrant assimilation ... -
Asymmetric Public-Good Games - Experiments on Contribution Norms Encouraging Cooperation
(2016-09-20)This dissertation extends the understanding of asymmetric group behavior in the provision of public goods. Previous studies, using an asymmetric framework, have so far focused on situations where all players profit form ... -
Attribution of Copyright to Artificial Intelligence Generated Works
(2019-08-29)The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid development of its creative abilities, pose the necessary question about of to whom the copyright of these creations is guaranteed should be granted. AI's stand-alone ... -
Auf der Suche nach der Hawaiischen Nation
(2013-09-27)The dissertation’s focus is on the analysis of the "Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement", a political movement of indigenous Hawaiians. Playing an important role during the 1990s (with the centennial of the overthrow celebrated ... -
Aufbau von Handlungswissen und Kompetenzlernen bei Sportspielen, ein didaktisches Modell der Spielhandlungskompetenzen
(2012-12-06)The present dissertation aims to design a didactic model for the teaching and training of sports games taking into account the basic principles of learning theories such as Interactionist Constructivism, Situated Learning ... -
Aufkommens-, Verteilungs- und Investitionswirkungen von Steuerreformen in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union
(2014-02-07)Sowohl das deutsche Steuerrecht als auch das Steuerrecht anderer europäischer Staaten ist vielfach Gegenstand von Reformen. Steuersysteme sollten einerseits aus ökonomischer Sicht effizient ausgestaltet sein, das heißt mit ... -
Ausdauertraining bei Schizophreniepatienten: Eine kontrollierte Studie zu den Wirkungen von Ausdauertraining in der Kombination mit kognitivem Training auf Ausdauerleistungsfähigkeit, Funktionsniveau und Hippocampusvolumen
(2014-11-18)The aim of the study is the investigation of endurance training for future implementation into the therapy plan of schizophrenia patients. In healthy controls and animals, several beneficial effects of endurance training ... -
Die Aussagefähigkeit leistungsdiagnostischer Verfahren für die Trainingsmethodik und die Prognose von Wettkampfergebnissen im Sportschwimmen
(2003-04-24)The purpose of the work is the effectiveness of the performance-diagnostic measures for the training methodology and the prognosis of competition results in swimming sports.The swimming ... -
Auswirkungen eines Computerlernprogramms auf Lernstile von Kindern im Alter von 9 bis 12 Jahren
(2003-07-16)This empirical study was about the development and application of a computer learning program "CEWIDchen", with which children of third up to the sixth school year could learn topics about ... -
Auswirkungen von akkumulierten Rückmeldungsformen mit einem Computer-Lernprogramm über Textaufgaben bei Kindern aus fünften und sechsten Klassen:
(2005-07-11)This study analysed the influence of graphical feedback on the learning process with children between the ages of 10 and 12. 30 children learned to solve mathematical tasks with text with ... -
Bandwidth Selection in Nonparametric Kernel Estimation
(2012-03-14)Kernel estimation is a common nonparametric method for data based estimation of densities or regression functions. Although one may consider nonparametric estimation as a procedure that ... -
Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies
(2014-04-24)The dissertation thesis titled “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” contains the findings of econometric impact evaluations conducted in two different ... -
Die Bedeutung der intrinsischen Motivation in Prinzipal-Agent-Beziehungen am Beispiel der Beratungsstellen kirchlicher Wohlfahrtsverbände
(2005-02-28)This thesis examines whether and how economic organization theory especially in the form of principal agent theory, can be extended by the factor of 'intrinsic motivation'. Following previous ... -
Die Bedeutung des sozialen Einflusses für selbstbezogene Markenfunktionen
(2009-11-05)The starting point of this work is the deficit in brand research in social perspective implied by buying brand acquisitions. Models of consumer choice should be extended to include the ... -
Beeinflussung regionaler Kaufkraftströme durch den Autobahnlückenschluß der A 49 Kassel-Gießen
(2004-12-20)This thesis intends to empirically verify the core-periphery-model of the "New Economic Geography". This model investigates the impact of economies of scale and transport costs on the ... -
Behavioral Interventions and Students' Success at University - Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments
(2022-01-20)Research over the past decades has documented the various individual and social returns to tertiary education. In many countries, however, the realization of those returns is jeopardized by high dropout rates and delayed ... -
Beiträge zur empirischen Untersuchung von Aufkommens- und Verhaltenswirkungen der Unternehmensbesteuerung
(2014-02-17)Taxes influence the outcome of business activity in various ways and are thus expected to impact the decisions and behavior of taxpayers. Understanding these behavioral effects of taxation is therefore an important ...