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Empirical Findings and Design Approaches for the Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Supply Chains
(2025-11-03)Due to the complexity of modern supply chains (SCs), coordination and communication among numerous value-creation partners are required. This, in turn, necessitates resilient and transparent systems to manage disruptions ... -
VAR Analysis of Heterogeneous Panel Data
(2025-10-02)Vector-autoregressive (VAR) analysis is a central instrument of empirical macroeconomics and the starting point for numerous extensions of multivariate time series analysis. For example, structural VAR models allow to ... -
Structural Change, Foreign Investment, and Labour Markets in Developing Economies
(2025-09-16)This dissertation investigates the complex relationships between structural change, foreign direct investment (FDI), and labour market outcomes in developing economies, with a particular focus on the roles of firm ... -
Firms’ Real and Reporting Responses to Tax Policy: Evidence on Investment Incentives, Anti-Avoidance Measures, and Dispute Resolution
(2025-07-31)This dissertation investigates how corporate behavior is shaped by tax policy, distinguishing between real responses and reporting responses. Drawing on three empirical studies, it explores firms’ reactions to investment ... -
Improving Labor Market Outcomes: Interventions to Foster Skills Development and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2025-07-28)Improving labor market outcomes is central to enhancing individual well-being. Two key strategies available to individuals are investing in skills and migrating to more dynamic labor markets. In sub-Saharan Africa, where ... -
Essays on inequality and discrimination in developing countries
(2025-01-20)This thesis explores different dimensions of inequality and discrimination in developing countries. In Chapter 2, we combine different aspects of attitudes toward immigration in a conceptual framework and test them empirically ... -
Does Context Always Matter?
(2025-01-07)The risk of information security breaches in companies is escalating due to the increasing digitalization of business processes and employee activities within their daily work environment. While technical measures can ... -
Knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation systems
(2025-01-07)The constituent papers of this cumulative dissertation contribute to the scholarly debate and thus the understanding of knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation systems. The recursive transfer of knowledge between ... -
Meta-research in times of data science: Using automation, machine learning, and modern econometrics to analyze open science in economics and related fields
(2024-12-18)This cumulative doctoral thesis applies different data science techniques to the field of meta-research. On the one hand, the output of this thesis are large and robust research data sets. On the other hand, the thesis ... -
The Economics of Globalization: Migration, Trade, and Investment
(2024-11-29)The three economic drivers of globalization are the free flow of labor, goods, and capital. Together they have shaped three waves of globalization over the last 200 years. This dissertation encompasses all three waves of ... -
Essays on the role of CSR information in capital markets: Evidence from stakeholders and information intermediaries
(2024-11-12)This thesis analyizes the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in capital markets and its use by stakeholders and information intermediaries. On the basis of three studies, the thesis contributes to ... -
Greening Consumption: Decoding the Influence of Vegan Label and 'Rescued' Claim
(2024-07-18)The global food system significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with animal-derived products and food waste representing two major factors. Reducing the consumption of animal-derived products and minimizing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reporting by Non-Listed Companies on Corporate Social Responsibility
(2024-01-30)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 ... -
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 ... -
Employees' Acceptance of Smart Watches in Germany
(2023-10-12)More and more companies rely on smart watches in their processes and equip their employees with them. Smart watches promise a variety of benefits for both employers and employees. These include simplifying information ... -
Empirical Studies on Migration
(2023-10-02)Research over the past decades has documented growing migration flows worldwide; and specifically increased immigration into developed countries of the global north. Against this background, this thesis investigates the ... -
Essays in Development Economics and Global Health
(2023-10-02)The chapters in this dissertation provide insights into different aspects of the SDG research agenda. The chapters also both incorporate publicly available secondary data sources as well as newly collected survey data. ...