Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Application of Chatbots at the Digital Workplace in Businesses - Empirical Insights and Design Recommendations for Business Chatbots
(2022-06-17)Driven by the ongoing digitalization, businesses and work procedures change, established paper-based ways of working vanish, and new forms of digital collaboration or office and working structures are emerging. Besides ... -
Essays on Technological Change and Trade in Development Economics
(2022-06-16)This thesis analyzes how trade and technological change affect economic development. Chapter 1 investigates how domestic and foreign automation impact an emerging economy. Regions in Brazil which are more exposed to foreign ... -
Trading Strategies and Return Patterns in Commodity Futures Markets
(2022-06-16)This thesis analyzes commodity futures pricing, trading activities in commodity futures contracts and their use for investment strategies. The aim of this thesis is to fill important gaps in the research field of commodity ... -
Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition
(2022-06-14)Empirical evidence suggests both that market power increased considerably since 1980 (e.g. De Loecker et al., 2020) and that firms differ in destination-specific trade barriers (e.g. Munch and Nguyen, 2014). Motivated by ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-criteria Decision Making for Energy System Evaluation
(2022-04-01)Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a field of knowledge in Operations Research that can help decision-makers make transparent and auditable decisions in a logical manner. It offers methods that help to choose suitable ... -
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 ... -
It's Time: Poverty, Inequality and Sustainability beyond the Mean
(2022-03-08)Differences in time allocation enlighten patterns of gendered poverty. This thesis disentangles the interlinked nature of deprivations in leisure time and income as well as income inequality and carbon emissions. Regressions ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Zur Ermittlung individueller, lernfeldspezifischer und institutioneller Einflussfaktoren auf den Lerntransfer in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung: Eine empirische Untersuchung mit Weiterbildungsteilnehmenden aus dem Hotelgewerbe
(2021-11-16)The hotel sector is facing special challenges, such as the acute shortage of skilled workers and rising service standards. Company-sponsored further training is regarded as an appropriate measure for keeping pace with these ... -
Determinations of Other-Regarding Behavior and the Private Provision of Public Goods
(2021-10-08)This thesis contributes to research that challenges the narrow self-interest assumption used in the standard economic model. The first part of the thesis includes three experimental studies on social preferences. The second ... -
Dynamics of Social and Individual Preferences: Evidence from Madagascar
(2021-07-27)Every day individuals make different decisions that reflect their individual and social preferences. Until not long ago, individual preferences were at the center of the economic theory. Now, social preferences are also ... -
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 ... -
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 ...