Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Referee "Spiwoks, Markus Prof. Dr."
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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 ... -
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Economic Behavior and Predictability in Financial Markets
(2023-05-05)Digital transformation is producing a growing number of technological innovations that have an impact on our daily lives. In a variety of areas, economic agents increasingly have the opportunity to interact with algorithms, ... -
Algorithm Aversion and Other Causes of Bias in Decision Behavior
(2022-11-28)The present thesis contributes to the debate on whether the neoclassical economic theory is suitable to describe economic reality. It covers the three topics of algorithm aversion, analysis of capital market forecasts, and ... -
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 ... -
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Energy Economic Policy Instruments from the Residential and SMEs Sector
(2020-04-16)This dissertation analyzes the effectiveness of different energy economic policy instruments for carbon dioxide emission reductions. To this end, evidence on the effectiveness of energy economic policy instruments on ... -
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 ... -
Biases and Heuristics in Portfolio Management – Determinants for non-optimal Portfolio Diversification
(2019-02-22)Markowitz (1952) shows that it is useful for risk-averse investors to split capital among different investment instruments. Practice shows, however, that investors often have non-optimal diversified portfolios. There are ... -
Economic effects of occupational regulation
(2018-12-18)This thesis is motivated by the wish to balance the public debate on regulation. It aims to teach public and policy-makers about the seen und unseen effects as well as regulatory options of a particular form of regulation ... -
Decision-making, uncertainty and the predictability of financial markets: Essays on interest rates, crude oil prices and exchange rates
(2018-05-24)Decision-makers are confronted with decisions under uncertainty. Financial uncertainty may adversely affect growth. Theoretically, forecasts may potentially reduce uncertainty and create economic value. Focusing on survey ... -
Credit Access, Networks, Institutions and Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Insights from Vietnam
(2018-03-01)Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks and institutions in improving firm performance. By using ... -
Determinants of Human Cooperation
(2017-12-13)The present book adds to the broad field of investigations concerning what affects and determines human cooperation. It provides new insights into internal and external factors that influence such decisions. Rather than ... -
The effects of regulatory and financial policy instruments on innovative behavior
(2016-03-24)Fostering innovative activities is broadly acknowledged to be a core requirement of successful economic policy in order to achieve political aims like economic growth, high levels of employment or long-standing international ... -
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 ... -
Wirkung föderaler Strukturen in der staatlichen Innovationsförderung
(2015-07-10)Public innovation support claims to reach out to firms facing barriers to innovate, especially smaller firms. Earlier studies showed that governmental programmes do not fulfil those aims. But the distinctions between ... -
Rationalität und Qualität von Wirtschaftsprognosen
(2015-05-19)Economic forecasts are utilized to decrease uncertainty relating to planning processes of companies and governments. Empirical research shows evidence that the level of forecast quality is generally rather poor. In order ... -
Social Identity in the Provision and Protection of Cultural Goods
(2015-02-23)The dissertation consists of two parts. The first part investigates whether and how to protect cultural goods. In particular, Chapter II analyses how the notion of social identity affects the respective demand for protection ... -
Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments
(2014-07-25)Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments -
Economic Forecasting. Experimental Evidence on Individual Biases, Group Cooperation and Herd Behavior
(2014-07-25)Economic Forecasting. Experimental Evidence on Individual Biases, Group Cooperation and Herd Behavior