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Causality, Prediction, and Replicability in Applied Statistics: Advanced Models and Practices
(2019-07-11)Statistical tools to analyze research data are widely applied in many scientific disciplines and the need for adequate statistical models and sound statistical analyses is apparent. This thesis addresses limitations in ... -
City on the Move: Migration, Public Culture, and Urban Identity in Delhi, c. 1911-present
(2023-06-20)This dissertation examines the formations and political implications of neighbourhood histories, and the central role of public historical narratives and memories in producing a normative “local community” that structures ... -
Classification and Analysis of Management and Marketing Data
(2010-06-18)This work investigates and provides examples of effective methods of statistical analysis for strategic decision making, specifically in managerial and marketing applications. The particular motivation is to bridge the ... -
Climate change mitigation and economic development
(2022-06-03)Anthropogenic climate change, caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, will have negative if not catastrophic consequences for the livelihoods of many across the globe. With the Paris Agreement in 2015, most countries ... -
Closer to the self while far from home
(2022-01-04)This dissertation explores the changing identity and sense of belonging of a group of master’s students from the People’s Republic of China during their stay in Germany. Its main purpose is to understand how the students ... -
Comparative Research on the Motivations, Influential Factors, and Current Status of Lifelong Learning in China and Germany
(2016-03-11)This study focuses on comparative research on the lifelong learning motivations and influential factors in China and Germany. As lifelong learning is a widely recognized system, which possesses international importance, ... -
Competitiveness and Trade Policy Problems in Agricultural Exports
(2006-09-05)Competitiveness has been considered merely a buzzword by some scholars because of the lack of consensus over its seemingly catch-all definition. However, policy makers and business people ... -
Concepts on How to Help Prevent or Solve Conflicts in Africa. The Case of the Cameroon-Nigerian Border Conflict
(2007-02-19)The aim is this study is to come up with new proposals as to how to solve or prevent conflicts in Africa. The focus is on border conflicts and more specifically on the Cameroon-Nigeria ... -
Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
(2014-02-18)From the nineteen-eighties onwards, Amartya Sen developed a new welfare theory: the capability approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Capabilities and functionings, i.e. what persons are actually able to do and be, ... -
Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries
(2013-10-23)This thesis aims to narrow the research gap on informal enterprises, contributing to both the academic and policy debates. It provides empirical evidence related to two key questions: how much potential do informal firms ... -
Contractual Relationships in the Absence of Formal Enforcement: Experimental Evidence from Germany and Kenya
(2015-07-31)This dissertation consists of three experimental studies that aim at contributing to a better understanding of behavior within contractual relationships—in particular, if information asymmetries, incentive issues and a ... -
Contributions to statistical modelling of high-frequency financial data with applications to Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(2012-03-22)This dissertation is concerned with the forecasting performance of time series models for the price movements of high-frequency transaction data on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The availability of high quality data of ... -
Convergence or Divergence in the EMU?
(2018-05-16)The past decade has dramatically shaped the European economic landscape. After the global financial and economic crisis of 2008/09 hit the continent, the southern European periphery exemplified by Greece experienced a ... -
Corporate Governance, Information Intermediation, and Earnings Management
(2014-10-01)Based on four empirical studies, this thesis investigates the interrelation of corporate governance, information intermediation, and earnings management. First, the thesis complements the discussion initiated by the European ... -
Corporate valuation with mixed financing strategies and cross-border relations
(2023-08-31)Corporate valuation is a theoretically challenging but practically highly relevant field. It is usually conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) methods. One important part of corporate valuation with DCF methods are ... -
Credit Access, Networks, Institutions and Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Insights from Vietnam
(2018-03-01)Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks and institutions in improving firm performance. By using ... -
Cultural and attitudinal influences on destination choice
(2008-05-27)This study contributes to the knowledge base for a more sustainable development of Chinese domestic tourism from a demand side perspective. Economic valuation is based on choice experiment (CE) data from a survey of ... -
Cultural Property und Cultural Heritage. Eine ethnologische Analyse internationaler Konzeptionen im Vergleich
(2007-09-25)The following thesis deals with the conceptional change from cultural property to cultural heritage within the UNESCO. The draft of cultural property was first established through the UNESCO ... -
Customer satisfaction in the food sector
(2009-03-18)Customer satisfaction research has evolved into an established marketing instrument in scientific literature for considerable time, and is also applied in business practice. Particularly ... -
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