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Financial Market Actors: Cognitive Biases, Portfolio Diversification and Forecasting Ability
(2019-05-10)For investments in the capital markets, portfolio theory (Markowitz, 1952) plays a significant role and continues to form an important basis for decisions on the structuring of investment portfolios. For risk-averse ... -
Firm dynamics and regional development in Indonesia
(2022-01-25)Like all economic actors, firms continuously need to adjust to changes of the environment they are operating in. Since firms do not only produce goods or provide services, but also act on the demand side of input factors ... -
Firm Risk and Ambiguity: The Role of Management and the Board
(2021-07-27)This dissertation is fundamentally concerned with the question of how management and the board of directors influence the uncertainty—that is, both risk and ambiguity—of a corporation. Interest in this question stems from ... -
Five Essays in Experimental Economics
(2021-06-10)This dissertation consists of five essays contributing to a better understanding of three fundamental lines of research in behavioral economics: trust and cooperation in social interactions, gender discrimination, and ... -
Floods in Southeast Asia: A Household Welfare Priority
(2019-05-29)The dissertation focuses on floods in Vietnam and Thailand using a long-time measurement of household welfare, combined with an external flood indicator, which is a measure of local inundation by using satellite floodwater ... -
Four Essays in Experimental Economics
(2015-03-03)The first essay “Informational Asymmetries in Laboratory Asset Markets with State-Dependent Fundamentals” investigates the formation of market prices in a new experimental setting involving multi-period call-auction asset ... -
Four Essays on Health and Nutrition of Indian Women and Children
(2022-10-05)This cumulative doctoral thesis consists of four research manuscripts (hereafter essays). Essay 1: Using a nationally representative dataset for India, this study sets up a quasi-experimental study design – instrumental ... -
Förderung von Belastungs-Beanspruchungs-Bewältigung bei Auszubildenden in der Pflege
(2023-06-02)The nursing profession is characterized by a particularly high stress level. This in turn has an impact on the quality of care and the retention of nurses. Against the backdrop of an aging society and the resulting increasing ... -
From Bonded Laborers to Educated Citizens? Immigration, Labor Markets, and Human Capital in São Paulo, Brazil (1820-2010)
(2019-05-23)The thesis studies the consequences of the Age of Mass Migration (1820-1920) for the socioeconomic development of the province/state of São Paulo, Brazil, in the short and long run. The determinants of immigration and the ... -
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 ... -
Globaler Institutionenwandel und nachhaltige globale öffentliche Gütersicherung:Ausgewählte globale institutionelle Arrangements im Vergleich und globale Förderinstrumentempfehlung für grünen Energietechnologiewandel beispielsweise in Nigeria
(2013-06-25)Considering the nonexcludable and nonrival nature of the benefits of global public goods stretching intergenerationally across population groups und transnational borders it becomes logically inevitable to safeguard them ... -
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 ... -
Growth, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate and Wellbeing
(2013-08-29)The five essays of this dissertation combine topics from development and environmental economics. All essays treat the overall topic on how to influence and regulate the production of CO2 emissions. The green house gas CO2 ... -
Here today, gone tomorrow: Pop-up stores’ ephemerality and consumer behavior
(2021-05-18)This dissertation was motivated by the rise of pop-up stores as a retail concept devised to satisfy consumers’ desire for ephemerality and extraordinary experiences. As pop-ups are highly original and unique, they are ... -
How to Foster Prosocial Behavior?
(2021-04-23)The starting point of this dissertation is the idea that it is in the interest of society to foster prosocial behavior. Far more debatable is which strategies are suitable to promote prosocial behavior. In this thesis, I ... -
Ideas are Craftwork Development of an Innovation Training Course and its Evaluation with female and male Journeymen
(2018-07-03)This doctoral dissertation is comprised of three autonomous studies all aiming at answering the research question of “Which ideation techniques enhance the idea quality in idea generation?”. A systematic literature review ... -
Information Asymmetries and the Role of Information Intermediaries on Capital Markets
(2022-10-10)Information asymmetries are common characteristics of the relationship between investors and the management of a firm. These asymmetries can lead to inefficient resource allocation and welfare losses. This thesis aims to ... -
Innovation and experts
(2016-03-03)Experts have been discussed in the literature concerning the role of transferring knowledge to client firms and private customers. Nevertheless, only limited evidence has been presented concerning the clients’ internal ... -
Institutional Designs of Public Goods in the Context of Cultural Property
(2014-02-14)The dissertation is divided in two parts. The first part examines the case of how traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) can be protected by formal institutions of collective property rights against unauthorized use by ...