Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Empirical Findings and Design Approaches for the Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Supply Chains
(2025-11-03)Due to the complexity of modern supply chains (SCs), coordination and communication among numerous value-creation partners are required. This, in turn, necessitates resilient and transparent systems to manage disruptions ... -
Effect heterogeneity in gender inequality and environmental regulation: From linear models to machine learning
(2025-10-23)Understanding effect heterogeneity is crucial for designing targeted policies that promote societal goals such as gender equality and environmental sustainability. Although average effects provide general guidance, analyzing ... -
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Developing Countries: Impacts on Welfare, Mental Health, and Social Conflict
(2025-10-02)This dissertation offers a comprehensive examination of the welfare implications of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs). By applying both quantitative and qualitative methods, including advanced quasi-experimental and ... -
VAR Analysis of Heterogeneous Panel Data
(2025-10-02)Vector-autoregressive (VAR) analysis is a central instrument of empirical macroeconomics and the starting point for numerous extensions of multivariate time series analysis. For example, structural VAR models allow to ... -
Structural Change, Foreign Investment, and Labour Markets in Developing Economies
(2025-09-16)This dissertation investigates the complex relationships between structural change, foreign direct investment (FDI), and labour market outcomes in developing economies, with a particular focus on the roles of firm ... -
Essays on the Economics of Global Food Security
(2025-09-10)This dissertation investigates key challenges in achieving healthy and sustainable diets for people around the globe, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular. It focuses on the roles of production, markets, ... -
Firms’ Real and Reporting Responses to Tax Policy: Evidence on Investment Incentives, Anti-Avoidance Measures, and Dispute Resolution
(2025-07-31)This dissertation investigates how corporate behavior is shaped by tax policy, distinguishing between real responses and reporting responses. Drawing on three empirical studies, it explores firms’ reactions to investment ... -
Small-scale Entrepreneurship and Informal Employment: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
(2025-07-28)This thesis investigates the livelihoods and constraints of small-scale entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa through a series of empirical studies conducted in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire. The four chapters provide complementary ... -
Improving Labor Market Outcomes: Interventions to Foster Skills Development and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2025-07-28)Improving labor market outcomes is central to enhancing individual well-being. Two key strategies available to individuals are investing in skills and migrating to more dynamic labor markets. In sub-Saharan Africa, where ... -
Social protection systems and decent jobs in the context of (in)formal labor markets
(2025-07-11)This dissertation explores the interplay between social protection systems, decent work, and labor market dynamics through four empirical chapters conducted in Brazil and Côte d'Ivoire. Chapter 1 examines exit dynamics ... -
On the Consequences of Trade: Inequality, the Environment, and Aid
(2025-05-27)This dissertation analyzes, empirically, the consequences of international trade along three dimensions: economic inequality, the environment, and international aid. First, building upon the argument that factor endowments ... -
Essays on Economic Decision-Making in the Era of Machine Intelligence
(2025-04-09)This dissertation studies how human decision-makers react to and adopt novel technology, with a particular focus on algorithmic prediction systems and artificial intelligence. To that end, it combines theory-guided economic ... -
Finding Path Towards AI-based Services in the Finance Industry
(2025-02-10)The ongoing revolution toward AI-based services in corporate financial services presents immense opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and improved accuracy in areas such as credit scoring, financial statement ... -
Essays on inequality and discrimination in developing countries
(2025-01-20)This thesis explores different dimensions of inequality and discrimination in developing countries. In Chapter 2, we combine different aspects of attitudes toward immigration in a conceptual framework and test them empirically ... -
Knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation systems
(2025-01-07)The constituent papers of this cumulative dissertation contribute to the scholarly debate and thus the understanding of knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation systems. The recursive transfer of knowledge between ... -
Does Context Always Matter?
(2025-01-07)The risk of information security breaches in companies is escalating due to the increasing digitalization of business processes and employee activities within their daily work environment. While technical measures can ... -
Meta-research in times of data science: Using automation, machine learning, and modern econometrics to analyze open science in economics and related fields
(2024-12-18)This cumulative doctoral thesis applies different data science techniques to the field of meta-research. On the one hand, the output of this thesis are large and robust research data sets. On the other hand, the thesis ... -
Nudging Plant-Based Food Choice
(2024-11-29)As global food systems face growing challenges of sustainability, plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) have emerged as a promising solution to reduce reliance on animal-based foods. Their success, however, depends on ... -
The Economics of Globalization: Migration, Trade, and Investment
(2024-11-29)The three economic drivers of globalization are the free flow of labor, goods, and capital. Together they have shaped three waves of globalization over the last 200 years. This dissertation encompasses all three waves of ... -
Socio-economic and political consequences of labor market shocks: Evidence from Brazil
(2024-11-22)This dissertation contributes to the literature by presenting novel empirical evidence on the unexpected socio-economic and political consequences of labor market shocks in Brazil. Chapter two highlights the importance of ...