Recent Submissions
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Bridging Theory and Practice: Development and Evaluation of Production Scheduling Algorithms for Real-World Production Environments
(2025-12-19)Production scheduling is becoming increasingly complex due to customization, variability, and real-time disturbances, while Industry 4.0 technologies offer real-time data and opportunities for reactive control. This ... -
Design Recommendations for Motivational Learning Systems to Promote Competencies in Software Testing
(2025-11-19)Software testing is an integral part of the software development process and often determines the success or failure of software projects. Although testing can consume more than half of development time and costs, it is ... -
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 ... -
Effect heterogeneity in gender inequality and environmental regulation: From linear models to machine learning
(2025-10-23)Understanding effect heterogeneity is crucial for designing targeted policies that promote societal goals such as gender equality and environmental sustainability. Although average effects provide general guidance, analyzing ... -
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Developing Countries: Impacts on Welfare, Mental Health, and Social Conflict
(2025-10-02)This dissertation offers a comprehensive examination of the welfare implications of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs). By applying both quantitative and qualitative methods, including advanced quasi-experimental and ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the Economics of Global Food Security
(2025-09-10)This dissertation investigates key challenges in achieving healthy and sustainable diets for people around the globe, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular. It focuses on the roles of production, markets, ... -
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 ... -
Small-scale Entrepreneurship and Informal Employment: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
(2025-07-28)This thesis investigates the livelihoods and constraints of small-scale entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa through a series of empirical studies conducted in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire. The four chapters provide complementary ... -
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 ... -
Social protection systems and decent jobs in the context of (in)formal labor markets
(2025-07-11)This dissertation explores the interplay between social protection systems, decent work, and labor market dynamics through four empirical chapters conducted in Brazil and Côte d'Ivoire. Chapter 1 examines exit dynamics ... -
Mediengewinnspiele nach § 11 MStV
(2025-07-11)This thesis deals in six chapters with the legal classification and evaluation of sweepstakes in the media (here referred to as: media sweepstakes). It identifies the criteria by which such sweepstakes are evaluated and ... -
On the Consequences of Trade: Inequality, the Environment, and Aid
(2025-05-27)This dissertation analyzes, empirically, the consequences of international trade along three dimensions: economic inequality, the environment, and international aid. First, building upon the argument that factor endowments ... -
Linksextremismus, Linksradikalismus, Linke Militanz …? – eine qualitative Studie zu Vorstellungen, Einstellungen und Unterrichtspraxis von Politiklehrkräften (LiPU-Studie)
(2025-04-17)This dissertation takes left-wing militant social manifestations as an opportunity to ask political science teachers what they understand by them, how they evaluate them and what relevance they play in the classroom. One ... -
Essays on Economic Decision-Making in the Era of Machine Intelligence
(2025-04-09)This dissertation studies how human decision-makers react to and adopt novel technology, with a particular focus on algorithmic prediction systems and artificial intelligence. To that end, it combines theory-guided economic ... -
Finding Path Towards AI-based Services in the Finance Industry
(2025-02-10)The ongoing revolution toward AI-based services in corporate financial services presents immense opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and improved accuracy in areas such as credit scoring, financial statement ... -
Cattle Economies and Social Reconfigurations in the Urban Space
(2025-01-23)Pastoralism in the Sahel region, anthropologically well-researched, is commonly associated with Fulani economies in rural areas. Although studies on urban Fulani often recognize cities as site for alternative income sources ... -
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 ... -
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 ...