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Der Tapeverband am Sprunggelenk als technischer Bestandteil zur Leistungssteigerung im Sport am Beispiel des Fosbury Flops
(2005-06-14)THE ANKLE TAPE IN HIGH JUMP DEMONSTRATING TAPING AS AN INTEGRAL TECHNICAL FEATURE TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE IN ATHLETICSGharavi H, Institute for Sports Sciences, Dept. of Sociology, ... -
Telling stories or solving problems? The 20-20-20 package and the efficiency of EU Climate Change Policies
(2016-06-20)The main instrument for the EU climate change protection plans relies on the 20-20-20 by 2020 targets. This roadmap, adopted in 2008, is the result of years of continuing work for a joint programme for Europe-wide application ... -
Textual Information in Analyst Reports and its Value for Decision Support
(2023-02-16)The profession of financial analysts requires skills that cannot be replaced even by today’s most cutting-edge analytical tools. Instead, ongoing globalization and the increasing interconnectedness of international financial ... -
(Thai-)Land in Bewegung: Nostalgien und inländische Tourismusmobilitäten
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the manifold mobility dynamics and social transformations in which the development of domestic tourism in Thailand is embedded. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Khan, a small town ... -
The Analysis of the International Legal Water Regime of the Mekong River Basin
(2017-03-09)On 27 August 2014, the world famous 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the 1997 UNWC) entered into force. This event once again made international water law become a hot ... -
The Application of Chatbots at the Digital Workplace in Businesses - Empirical Insights and Design Recommendations for Business Chatbots
(2022-06-17)Driven by the ongoing digitalization, businesses and work procedures change, established paper-based ways of working vanish, and new forms of digital collaboration or office and working structures are emerging. Besides ... -
The causes and consequences of violent conflict
(2021-04-19)This dissertation presents four independent papers that contribute to the understanding of the causes and consequences of violent conflicts. The first two papers identify causes of conflicts whereas the latter two elaborate ... -
The Challenges of Transition: Essays on Nutrition and Climate Change
(2016-07-08)Transition processes are a concomitant feature of economic growth. The transition that many countries (especially developing and transition countries) undergo when they experience economic growth has manifold ...
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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
(2015-03-12)This dissertation, which is grounded on a human-centred and multidimensional vision of development, aims at analyzing empirically the correlates and determinants of child health in low and middle income countries. The ... -
The cultural context of biodiversity conservation
(2008-04-29)Due to the recognition that many areas of the world that contain high levels of biodiversity are cultural landscapes inhabited by indigenous and local communities, the significant role such communities play in preserving ... -
The Economics of Human Rights - Gender, Human Trafficking, and Policy
(2011-07-25)This dissertation includes four papers prepared during my PhD study period (2008-2011), investigating a variety of topics on human rights through economic analyses. All the papers discuss ... -
The effects of regulatory and financial policy instruments on innovative behavior
(2016-03-24)Fostering innovative activities is broadly acknowledged to be a core requirement of successful economic policy in order to achieve political aims like economic growth, high levels of employment or long-standing international ... -
The effects of study abroad experience on students vocational identity
(2010-07-07)This research study discusses the implications of a semester study abroad program within students' vocational career development, and in particular, on student's self-perceptions, vocational ... -
The Fiscal and Economic Impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones
(2007-01-02)SUMMARYThis thesis investigates the fiscal and economic impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) on the Jordanian economy. In contrast to other studies, this study assesses costs and ... -
The Impact and Implementation of International Development Finance
(2023-12-04)This dissertation examines the pivotal role of international development finance amid the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Against the backdrop of formidable challenges, including the ... -
The Impact of Voluntary Front-of-Pack Nutrition-Label Introduction on Purchase Behavior
(2015-02-04)Nutrition labeling is the provision of information about nutrition content of individual food products at the point of purchase. Decades of marketing and nutrition research have been devoted to analyze how consumers perceive, ... -
The influence of moral costs and heuristics on individual decision making: Five essays in behavioral economics
(2018-10-24)In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect ... -
The influence of vocational education and training on innovation
(2023-08-22)My dissertation aims at analyzing the relevance of vocational education and training (VET) on firm innovation in Germany. It makes a twofold contribution to the innovation literature: Firstly, it complements studies on ... -
The Information Value of Unstructured Analyst Opinions
(2017-07-11)Due to the rising importance of information and communication technology in the financial industry the amount of unstructured textual and decision-relevant data that is being analyzed by market participants also continues ... -
The Link Between Large Scale Land Acquisition and Fertility
(2024-02-05)This paper provides the first large-scale quantitative analysis that sheds light on the previously unexplored relationship between fertility and large-scale land investment on the African continent. Therefore, a ... -
The Making-Of: Innovation. Understanding and Designing the Environment for Non-R&D Innovation
(2022-02-28)This thesis aims to highlight non-R&D innovation and contribute to a broader and more profound appreciation of learning and knowledge creation processes crucial for employee and individual-driven innovation attainment. ... -
The Nexus between Agricultural Productivity, Poverty, and Social Services Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income ... -
The Nexus of Neoclassical Realism and Soft Power the Case of the West – Russia Geopolitical Rivalries in the “Common Neighbourhood”
(2018-12-05)This thesis analyses soft power in the light of neoclassical realist premises as part of the foreign policy toolkit of great powers to expand their sphere of influence. It argues that if nuclear armed great powers compete ... -
The Political Economy of Electoral Reforms
(2016-07-27)This dissertation contributes to the emerging literature on endogenous political institutions and the causal relationship between institutions and the political and economic environment. For the purpose, all chapters rely ... -
The Regulation of Transborder Data Flows from the EU to China Within the Framework of China-EU E-Commerce under the GDPR
(2023-12-06)With the promulgation of the General Data Protection Regulation, the protection of personal data in the EU has reached a historically high level. However, the EU cannot keep the personal data of its residents inside of the ... -
The Role of Aspirations in Collective Action and Labor Markets
(2021-03-11)A growing literature in economics seeks to explain why people remain poor. Classical theories explained the persistence of poverty with constraints that are external to an individual such as market imperfections and ... -
The Role of Enforcement in the Decision Making of Preparers and Auditors of Financial Statements
(2019-03-15)This thesis investigates the role of financial reporting enforcement in the decision mak-ing of financial statement preparers and auditors. Enforcement bodies are governmen-tal or private agencies that have the authority ... -
The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development
(2017-12-14)In 2015, the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to pave the way for a global transformation towards sustainable development – a development path which combines the goals of economic ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
Umgang mit Kinderarmut am Beispiel von Göttingen - Betrachtung der Strategien des Masterplans
(2012-03-06)By the example of the Masterplan gegen Kinderarmut [masterplan against child poverty] this bachelor thesis reveals that the municipal dealing with child poverty can be seen as an example ... -
Umsetzung von EU-Umweltschutz in der deutschen Land- und Forstwirtschaft
(2015-08-14)Conflicts over economic, ecologic and regional development policy goals shape the agricultural and forest policies. The scientific and practical discourses concerning those policies in the EU and Germany were heavily ... -
Undokumentierte Migration in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten
(2005-02-03)The dissertation thesis of Holk Stobbe on undocumented migration in Germany and the United States analyses the effects of internal migration controls on the scope of action of sans papiers ... -
Une immigration déqualifiée. Diplômé-es d'études longues à la périphérie des professions supérieures françaises et allemandes
(2022-01-31)This doctoral dissertation in sociology aims to renew the analysis of contemporary migrations and of the international hierarchies that underlie them through the case of higher educated migrants. It studies specifically ... -
Ungewissheit als zentrale Erfahrung
(2017-08-18)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and indeterminate colitis. There are approximately 300.000 people in Germany, who got diagnosed with this chronic relapsing–remitting inflammatory ... -
Untersuchungen zur Optimierung der Belastungssteuerung im Krafttraining durch Kombination verschiedener Methoden der trainingsbegleitenden Leistungsdiagnostik
(2003-01-22)Within the framework of a pilot study, the questions were pursued if and how (rehabilitative) weight training can be optimized through a combination of different regulating and diagnostic ... -
Urheberrechtspolitik in Deutschland.
(2021-09-23)Since the digitization and politicization of copyright law, an increased number of reforms could not be classified without contradictions. A broad, social-scientific debate about problems, consequences, and explanatory ... -
Ursachen früher gesundheitlicher Ungleichheiten und ihre schulischen Folgen
(2018-03-23)Origin-related educational inequalities are now well documented, but are still poorly understood in terms of the underlying mechanisms. To explain the social and ethnic inequalities in educational success, empirical ... -
Überprüfung stochastischer Modelle mit Pseudo-Residuen
(2003-02-27)In this thesis we investigate the application of pseudo-residuals for assessing the fit of probability models. Pseudo-residuals enjoy three important advantages over traditional residuals: They are applicable to a wide ... -
Valuation with Personal Taxes under Different Financing and Dividend Policies
(2019-06-26)The valuation of firms is one of the topics that valuation theorists and practitioners have addressed since the early stages of economic sciences. Firm valuations are regularly conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) ... -
Veränderungen von Indikatoren der “Lebensqualität” nach Hochdosis-Chemotherapie
(2004-08-09)A prospective longitudinal study (13 Months) with five specific investigation times with patients (N=34) treated with high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplantation is described. ... -
Vergleichende Untersuchung zur Trainingswirksamkeit eines an der Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit orientierten Trainings der Beinmuskulatur
(2013-12-04)Among other things, the question about the extent to which the parameters “isometric and dynamic maximal strength” of the leg muscles show manifold changes after twentytraining units on the Desmotronic leg press and on the ...