Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Current Issues in Rural Development: Land Tenure, Land Use Change and Climate Change
(2024-10-10)This doctoral dissertation is composed of three scientific articles investigating the role of land tenure on agricultural productivity, the responses of smallholders to climate change, and the consequences of Large-Scale ... -
Tapferkeit als unbestimmter Rechtsbegriff
(2024-10-08)Bravery as a undefined legal term Jurisprudence has been accompanied by undefined legal terms throughout its history. Bravery is one such term, and the Legal Status of Military Personnel Act is not the only law in Germany ... -
Bildungsberatung Jugendlicher mit geringen formalen Bildungsqualifikationen
(2024-08-28)The dissertation takes as its starting point educational policy objectives pursued at EU and federal level, which call for the expansion of educational counselling. Given the background of changing social requirements, ... -
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 ... -
Leistungsfähigkeit beruflicher Ausbildung: Empirische Beiträge zur Beurteilung der systemisch-ökonomischen und individuellen Perspektive
(2024-06-27)The objective of this thesis is to adopt a more nuanced approach to examining the current performance-related challenges within the vocational education and training (VET) system. The focus is on two key issues that have ... -
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 ... -
Addressing barriers to human capital accumulation: Essays in development and health economics
(2023-11-17)While health and education, jointly referred to as human capital, are important ends in themselves, they are also important drivers of poverty alleviation and economic growth. Understanding and overcoming the barriers that ... -
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 ... -
Rechtstransfer durch Praktikerliteratur am Beispiel des polnischen Juristen Bartholomäus Groicki (um 1534 ― 1605)
(2024-03-21)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 ... -
From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks
(2024-02-29)The System for the Prevention and Analysis of School Dropouts in Higher Education (SPADIES) played a pivotal role in addressing the challenge of reducing drop-out rates in Colombian higher education, contributing to an ... -
Konstruktbasierte Bestimmung domänenorientierter komplexer Problemlösefähigkeit mit Komplexen Standardisierten Itemsequenzen
(2024-02-21)Die Fähigkeit, komplexe Probleme zu lösen, hat als Forschungsgegenstand in den vergangenen Jahren merklich das Interesse der Erziehungswissenschaften auf sich gezogen. Auch in ihrer Ausformung zur Kompetenz gilt sie als ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays in quantitative economics: Improvements in measurements and macroeconomic analysis
(2023-12-22)This thesis highlights opportunities and challenges related to the use of data in empirical economics. The interpretation of data is the primary tool we as economists have at our disposal to calibrate our models and test ... -
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 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 ... -
What Inclusion Leaves Out: Dalit Women, Feminism and the "Afterlives" of Educational Policy in Contemporary India
(2023-11-23)This dissertation tells the story about the beginnings, transformations and ‘afterlives’ of a set of education policies and programmes (the National Education Policy of 1986 and the Mahila Samakhya programme) that introduced ...