Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Title
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Land Security, Efficiency and Productivity, and Rural Income in China
(2011-08-23)This thesis consists of three essays which measure land security, estimate agricultural efficiency and farm productivity, and analyze their impacts on farm income in rural China. The work ... -
Large-Scale Land Investments and Land-Use Change
(2018-02-06)Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of rural households in developing countries. In recent years, smallholder agriculture has been affected by the surge in large-scale farms that have acquired land in rural regions of ... -
Large–scale land acquisitions in sub–Saharan Africa
(2015-03-10)This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies ... -
Leaving no one behind: Behavioral response to social exclusion and economic inequalities
(2020-08-17)Economic and social Inclusion (multidimensional framework) has been the overarching aim of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Particularly in countries that have heterogeneous social groups and strong, salient identities, ... -
Linguistic Relativity and Economic Outcomes
(2022-06-03)Research by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists has shown that the grammatical and lexical structures of languages affect human cognition. This hypothesis of linguistic relativity has been taken up by economists ... -
Liquiditätszusammenhänge zwischen Kassa- und Derivatemärkten
(2016-06-08)This dissertation develops a model of the illiquidity transmission from spot to futures markets that formalizes the derivative hedge theory of Cho and Engle (1999). The model shows that spot market illiquidity does not ... -
Local Dimensions of Development
(2023-10-23)Poverty remains one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting people’s livelihood in far more than the mere income dimension: The poor suffer from limited access to education, health care and nutrition, face ... -
Local financial development and economic growth in Vietnam
(2019-05-09)The following thesis accumulates four self-contained studies which analyse the relationship between local financial development and economic growth in Vietnam. Local financial development is measured at different levels ... -
Logistische Entscheidungen und ihre Auswirkungen: Die Unternehmenssimulation LogisticPLUS
(2001-07-23)The Management Game LogisticPLUS is a general management game with a focus on logistical issues. It aims at showing Logistic Managers the impact of their decisions. During the simulation ... -
Marketing the sustainable - Fostering behavioral intentions through information transparency
(2022-07-01)Reshaping our diets to sustainable forms represents a powerful lever in meeting the impending challenge of climate change. While labels have predominantly been used in the past to reveal sustainability-related product ... -
Measuring European Economic Integration
(2014-03-13)The three essays of this dissertation contribute to the measurement of European economic integration and investigate the welfare effects of the European countries. The first study presents a newly developed index – the EU ... -
Messung der Vulnerabilität der Armut - Eine statistische Analyse mit deutschen Paneldaten
(2012-11-06)In order to reduce poverty it is clearly of interest to identify, not only those households that are poor, but also those that are at risk of becoming poor, i.e. vulnerable to poverty. In this research, the accuracy of ... -
Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict and the Duration of Armed Groups
(2013-09-30)Political instability and political violence have been a major hindrance for development in developing and transition countries. Development and progress for countries is hard to achieve under the presence of armed conflict, ... -
Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education
(2015-06-22)This dissertation contains economic microanalyses of voting, regulation and higher education. It is about individual decisions, institutions, and the incentives the latter create. Three chapters of this dissertation are ... -
Microeconomic Analyses of the Causes and Consequences of Political Violence
(2015-07-28)Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development ... -
Microenterprise Performance and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico
(2017-07-12)Microenterprises dominate the economic landscape in Mexico and are the main employment and income providers of people that are vulnerable to poverty. The overreaching research question of this thesis is how microenterprise ... -
Mobile Applications from a Value in Use Perspective and their Impact on Retailing
(2021-06-25)With the rise of smartphone use during shopping, retail management has begun to exploit their newfound strategic opportunity to connect with customers via mobile applications. Accordingly, a current subject of academic and ... -
Modeling Approaches in Educational Research
(2017-02-03)This dissertation focuses on three different questions in the field of education, using the method of theoretical modeling. The subject discussed first refers to the existence of tuition fees. If the personal question of ... -
Moment Risk Premiums in Option Markets: On Measurement, Structure, and Investment Implications
(2021-11-16)Rational investors are in general risk averse. An important implication of this risk aversion is that investors may demand compensation for certain risks they take – risk premiums. Moment risk premiums are an example of ...