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Bandwidth Selection in Nonparametric Kernel Estimation
(2012-03-14)Kernel estimation is a common nonparametric method for data based estimation of densities or regression functions. Although one may consider nonparametric estimation as a procedure that ... -
Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies
(2014-04-24)The dissertation thesis titled “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” contains the findings of econometric impact evaluations conducted in two different ... -
Die Bedeutung der intrinsischen Motivation in Prinzipal-Agent-Beziehungen am Beispiel der Beratungsstellen kirchlicher Wohlfahrtsverbände
(2005-02-28)This thesis examines whether and how economic organization theory especially in the form of principal agent theory, can be extended by the factor of 'intrinsic motivation'. Following previous ... -
Beeinflussung regionaler Kaufkraftströme durch den Autobahnlückenschluß der A 49 Kassel-Gießen
(2004-12-20)This thesis intends to empirically verify the core-periphery-model of the "New Economic Geography". This model investigates the impact of economies of scale and transport costs on the ... -
Behavioral Interventions and Students' Success at University - Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments
(2022-01-20)Research over the past decades has documented the various individual and social returns to tertiary education. In many countries, however, the realization of those returns is jeopardized by high dropout rates and delayed ... -
Beiträge zur empirischen Untersuchung von Aufkommens- und Verhaltenswirkungen der Unternehmensbesteuerung
(2014-02-17)Taxes influence the outcome of business activity in various ways and are thus expected to impact the decisions and behavior of taxpayers. Understanding these behavioral effects of taxation is therefore an important ... -
Beiträge zur Messung und empirischen Analyse des Einflusses von Steuerasymmetrien auf Investitionsentscheidungen
(2018-02-26)Existing tax laws are usually characterized by a lack of decision-making neutrality of taxation, as is required from an economic perspective to ensure efficient allocation of resources and from a business perspective to ... -
Besonderheiten von Produkten aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Wahl effizienter Koordinationsformen in B2B-Geschäftsbeziehungen
(2016-01-26)This thesis investigates the specific characteristics of products from renewable resources and analyses how they affect the choice of efficient coordination mechanisms in business-to-business relationships. Due to the ... -
Bestimmungsgründe von Existenzgründungen im Handwerk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des sozioökonomischen Ansatzes
(2003-04-09)Due to the pecularities of the crafts sector it seems that the common explanation pattern of start-up dynamics could not be applied to crafts start-ups. This work persues the questions what ... -
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 ... -
Beyond punishment: Achieving sustainable compliance with the law. The case of coca-reducing policies in Colombia
(2015-04-21)The problem of illegal drugs is not contained in producing countries, but represents a global threat. My research focuses on how to achieve illegal crop reduction and compliance with the law in a sustainable fashion without ... -
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 ... -
Business and Financial Cycles in a Globalized World
(2022-08-15)This dissertation consists of three independent research papers and contributes to the empirical analysis of the interaction between business and financial cycles from different perspectives. The first paper uses a non-linear ... -
Causality, Prediction, and Replicability in Applied Statistics: Advanced Models and Practices
(2019-07-11)Statistical tools to analyze research data are widely applied in many scientific disciplines and the need for adequate statistical models and sound statistical analyses is apparent. This thesis addresses limitations in ... -
Classification and Analysis of Management and Marketing Data
(2010-06-18)This work investigates and provides examples of effective methods of statistical analysis for strategic decision making, specifically in managerial and marketing applications. The particular motivation is to bridge the ... -
Climate change mitigation and economic development
(2022-06-03)Anthropogenic climate change, caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, will have negative if not catastrophic consequences for the livelihoods of many across the globe. With the Paris Agreement in 2015, most countries ... -
Competitiveness and Trade Policy Problems in Agricultural Exports
(2006-09-05)Competitiveness has been considered merely a buzzword by some scholars because of the lack of consensus over its seemingly catch-all definition. However, policy makers and business people ... -
Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
(2014-02-18)From the nineteen-eighties onwards, Amartya Sen developed a new welfare theory: the capability approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Capabilities and functionings, i.e. what persons are actually able to do and be, ... -
Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries
(2013-10-23)This thesis aims to narrow the research gap on informal enterprises, contributing to both the academic and policy debates. It provides empirical evidence related to two key questions: how much potential do informal firms ...