Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Title
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Multidimensional Perspectives on Poverty
(2016-10-24)Concurrent to the widespread use of traditional income or consumption based measures for determining human development, there has been growing interest in the economics of happiness since the late 70s. Likewise, there is ... -
Multikriterielle Bewertung von Technologien zur Bereitstellung von Strom und Wärme
(2010-09-29)The present thesis deals with how decisions concerning the future energy supply can be effectively, transparently and comprehensibly supported, against the backdrop of sometimes conflicting ... -
My Friend, the Content Creator: Consequences of Parasocial Relationships for Engagement in Emerging Social Media
(2022-07-12)Emerging social media, denoted by the proliferation and commodification of user-generated content, continue to play a vital role in shaping firm and consumer behavior. In this context, consumer engagement depicts the core ... -
New Insights into the Effectiveness of Front-of-Package Nutrition Label Formats: Situational Processing Perspective
(2018-10-01)Abstract: Nutrition labeling literature yields fragmented results about the effect of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label formats on healthy food choice. Specifically, it is unclear which type of nutrition label ... -
Nutrition and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evaluation of Three Micronutrient Interventions
(2017-07-12)Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to ... -
Okonometrische Verfahren zur Messung von Segregation und Lohndiskriminierung - eine theoretische und empirische Studie
(2013-01-31)In most economies males earn higher wages than females. The question is whether this wage gap is due to discrimination or not. The dominant approach is the human capital theory by Becker and Mincer. It means that workers ... -
On some special-purpose hidden Markov models
(2011-05-11)Hidden Markov models (HMMs) provide flexible devices for modelling time series of observations that depend on underlying serially correlated states. They constitute a specific class of ... -
On the credibility of macroeconomic reform and stabilization policies
(1999)The formation of macroeconomic policy is conceptualized as on-going process of interaction between private individuals and a centralized policymaker. This interaction is inherently strategic in nature and lends itself to ... -
On the Determinants of Premiums in Financial Markets
(2023-08-24)This dissertation analyzes the pricing, exposures as well as information content of options. It aims to fill research gaps in the existing options-literature in the research fields of volatility-related pricing, option-exposures ... -
On the role of financial derivatives for the genesis and analysis of volatility in commodity markets
(2016-04-27)Food price volatility has re-emerged as an important topic of political discussion since the food price crisis of 2007/08. Not only the observation of increasing price levels but also their apparent increased volatility ... -
Operational Risk Management - Implementing a Bayesian Network for Foreign Exchange and Money Market Settlement
(2005-09-09)Operational risk losses in the financial industry usually occur at the business unit (micro) level and are due to weak management oversight, weak internal controls or the lack of it, or to ... -
Organization and Incentivization of Risk Management
(2022-03-22)Risk management is accepted as relevant for success of organizations and stability of the whole economy. Therefore, an organization of an appropriate risk management system is mandatory in many countries, especially for ... -
Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Analysis with Non-metric Variables for Composite Indices
(2015-08-28)A composite index is an aggregated variable comprising individual indicators and weights that commonly represent the relative importance of each indicator. Composite indices are often used to measure latent phenomena or ... -
Path-dependent Risk Measures - Theory and Applications
(2021-01-22)This dissertation addresses various key aspects in risk measurement with path-dependent risk measures. In contrast to most classical risk measures like value-at-risk, (semi-)variance, expected shortfall, or lower partial ... -
Political Determinants of Foreign Aid and International Trade
(2012-09-27)This rise of emerging economies is visible in international development cooperation and international trade. Aid contributions from donor countries operating outside of the established group of the OECD’s Development ... -
Political Economy in a globalized world
(2015-06-12)This cumulative dissertation contains three papers. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth. We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the ... -
Portfolio Strategies with Classical and Alternative Benchmarks
(2018-07-19)This dissertation addresses different key elements in portfolio management. It intends to improve and analyze influences on portfolio strategies and their performance. Likewise, it aims at the systematization and extension ... -
Poverty and Vulnerability in Vietnam
(2013-10-23)Since doi moi, Vietnam has made remarkable achievements in many frontiers. However, much effort needs to be done to further improve social and economic sectors, particularly in the context of increasing the number of ...