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The Fiscal and Economic Impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones
(2007-01-02)SUMMARYThis thesis investigates the fiscal and economic impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) on the Jordanian economy. In contrast to other studies, this study assesses costs and ... -
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 ... -
The Impact of Voluntary Front-of-Pack Nutrition-Label Introduction on Purchase Behavior
(2015-02-04)Nutrition labeling is the provision of information about nutrition content of individual food products at the point of purchase. Decades of marketing and nutrition research have been devoted to analyze how consumers perceive, ... -
The influence of moral costs and heuristics on individual decision making: Five essays in behavioral economics
(2018-10-24)In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect ... -
The influence of vocational education and training on innovation
(2023-08-22)My dissertation aims at analyzing the relevance of vocational education and training (VET) on firm innovation in Germany. It makes a twofold contribution to the innovation literature: Firstly, it complements studies on ... -
The Information Value of Unstructured Analyst Opinions
(2017-07-11)Due to the rising importance of information and communication technology in the financial industry the amount of unstructured textual and decision-relevant data that is being analyzed by market participants also continues ... -
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 ... -
The Making-Of: Innovation. Understanding and Designing the Environment for Non-R&D Innovation
(2022-02-28)This thesis aims to highlight non-R&D innovation and contribute to a broader and more profound appreciation of learning and knowledge creation processes crucial for employee and individual-driven innovation attainment. ... -
The Nexus between Agricultural Productivity, Poverty, and Social Services Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income ... -
The Political Economy of Electoral Reforms
(2016-07-27)This dissertation contributes to the emerging literature on endogenous political institutions and the causal relationship between institutions and the political and economic environment. For the purpose, all chapters rely ... -
The Role of Aspirations in Collective Action and Labor Markets
(2021-03-11)A growing literature in economics seeks to explain why people remain poor. Classical theories explained the persistence of poverty with constraints that are external to an individual such as market imperfections and ... -
The Role of Enforcement in the Decision Making of Preparers and Auditors of Financial Statements
(2019-03-15)This thesis investigates the role of financial reporting enforcement in the decision mak-ing of financial statement preparers and auditors. Enforcement bodies are governmen-tal or private agencies that have the authority ... -
The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development
(2017-12-14)In 2015, the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to pave the way for a global transformation towards sustainable development – a development path which combines the goals of economic ... -
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 ... -
The visualization, unbiased estimation and interpretation of distributional regression models
(2022-06-20)Distributional regression represents a modern approach to regression modeling that yields the ability to simultaneously connect multiple parameters beyond the mean of any parametric response distribution to structured ... -
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 ... -
Three Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2013-11-22)This dissertation provides basic economic research in behavioral economics. The leitmotif of all three essays is to study the decision making of individuals applying the method of experimental economics. Each of the presented ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2015-02-09)The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical ... -
Three Essays on Application of Semiparametric Regression: Partially Linear Mixed Effects Model and Index Model
(2012-12-07)The dissertation consists of three essays. The main focus is set on semiparametric regression modeling, which embodies the strength of parametric and nonparametric regression models in terms of flexibility, dimensionality ... -
Three Essays on Indonesian Political Economy: Elite Capture, Corruption, and Female Policy Makers
(2014-12-19)The three essays of this thesis contribute to the understanding of the Indonesian political economy in the era of decentralization. Essay 1 empirically investigates the role of elite capture in the context of an Indonesian ...