Browsing Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften by Advisor & Referee "Bizer, Kilian Prof. Dr."
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Better Banking Through Crises
(2024-10-29)Already in the 2000s, the monetary and financial system and its mechanisms of action increasingly became the focus of economic and social sciences. The financial crisis of 2007 and the subsequent euro crisis acted as ... -
Social Structures and Response to Misconduct: An Empirical Analysis of Economic, Social, and Psychological Factors in Norm Enforcement
(2024-06-18)This dissertation investigates norm enforcement in various social and economic contexts, particularly focusing on third-party reporting, public goods provision, and corporate environments. Through a series of laboratory ... -
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 ... -
SME Innovation in Regional Innovation Systems
(2023-08-31)This dissertation analyzes innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using the concept of regional innovation systems (RIS). The research shows the heterogeneity of innovation processes in SMEs and regions ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Responsible Consumer Behavior in the Digital Age
(2022-09-22)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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
How to Foster Prosocial Behavior?
(2021-04-23)The starting point of this dissertation is the idea that it is in the interest of society to foster prosocial behavior. Far more debatable is which strategies are suitable to promote prosocial behavior. In this thesis, I ... -
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Energy Economic Policy Instruments from the Residential and SMEs Sector
(2020-04-16)This dissertation analyzes the effectiveness of different energy economic policy instruments for carbon dioxide emission reductions. To this end, evidence on the effectiveness of energy economic policy instruments on ... -
Financial Market Actors: Cognitive Biases, Portfolio Diversification and Forecasting Ability
(2019-05-10)For investments in the capital markets, portfolio theory (Markowitz, 1952) plays a significant role and continues to form an important basis for decisions on the structuring of investment portfolios. For risk-averse ... -
Biases and Heuristics in Portfolio Management – Determinants for non-optimal Portfolio Diversification
(2019-02-22)Markowitz (1952) shows that it is useful for risk-averse investors to split capital among different investment instruments. Practice shows, however, that investors often have non-optimal diversified portfolios. There are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Entwicklung eines Evolutionären Algorithmus zur Preisoptimierung für kleine und mittlere Handelsunternehmen
(2018-12-12)The present thesis deals with the price optimization of retail companies and the associated challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises. Above all in the German trade market the price represents one of the central ... -
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 ... -
Portfolio Strategies with Classical and Alternative Benchmarks
(2018-07-19)This dissertation addresses different key elements in portfolio management. It intends to improve and analyze influences on portfolio strategies and their performance. Likewise, it aims at the systematization and extension ... -
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 ...