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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...