Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Addressing barriers to human capital accumulation: Essays in development and health economics
(2023-11-17)While health and education, jointly referred to as human capital, are important ends in themselves, they are also important drivers of poverty alleviation and economic growth. Understanding and overcoming the barriers that ... -
Well-Being and Shocks: Challenges in Poverty Measurement and Analysis
(2023-11-17)Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for a world free of poverty in 2030. Over the last decades, the world has made much progress in reducing poverty. However, COVID-19 has shown that these gains can be reversed ... -
Local Dimensions of Development
(2023-10-23)Poverty remains one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting people’s livelihood in far more than the mere income dimension: The poor suffer from limited access to education, health care and nutrition, face ... -
Decision Making in Fragile Settings
(2023-10-17)This dissertation presents three independent studies investigating decision-making in fragile settings. Researchers and policymakers have recognized fighting conflict and fragility as a key strategy in the fight against ... -
Employees' Acceptance of Smart Watches in Germany
(2023-10-12)More and more companies rely on smart watches in their processes and equip their employees with them. Smart watches promise a variety of benefits for both employers and employees. These include simplifying information ... -
Essays in Political Economy: Drivers of Polarization
(2023-10-12)This thesis contributes to our understanding of the increasing polarization of societies. The first chapter focuses on immigration inflows as driver of polarization. As societies are faced with an increasing number of ... -
Empirical Studies on Migration
(2023-10-02)Research over the past decades has documented growing migration flows worldwide; and specifically increased immigration into developed countries of the global north. Against this background, this thesis investigates the ... -
Essays in Development Economics and Global Health
(2023-10-02)The chapters in this dissertation provide insights into different aspects of the SDG research agenda. The chapters also both incorporate publicly available secondary data sources as well as newly collected survey data. ... -
Estimating and evaluating mixed and semiparametric models with statistical and deep learning methods
(2023-09-11)Semiparametric models are well-established, versatile and effective statistical models for analysing complex data by combining both parametric and non-parametric components and are used in a wide range of applications and ... -
Digitization of High-Stakes Exams
(2023-08-31)The opportunities for digitization in education have been addressed in research and practice for a long time. These extend across all components of the Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment (CIA) triad according to PELLEGRINO ... -
Corporate valuation with mixed financing strategies and cross-border relations
(2023-08-31)Corporate valuation is a theoretically challenging but practically highly relevant field. It is usually conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) methods. One important part of corporate valuation with DCF methods are ... -
SME Innovation in Regional Innovation Systems
(2023-08-31)This dissertation analyzes innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using the concept of regional innovation systems (RIS). The research shows the heterogeneity of innovation processes in SMEs and regions ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Semi-Parametric Distributional Regression in Forestry and Ecology
(2023-08-10)Recent advances in machine learning software, such as automatic differentiation and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, have significantly changed machine learning research. They have accelerated model development and contributed ... -
Förderung von Belastungs-Beanspruchungs-Bewältigung bei Auszubildenden in der Pflege
(2023-06-02)The nursing profession is characterized by a particularly high stress level. This in turn has an impact on the quality of care and the retention of nurses. Against the backdrop of an aging society and the resulting increasing ... -
Development of Material Flow Cost Accounting and Value Added Statements as Planning Instruments for Sustainability Management
(2023-06-01)In companies, the environmental and social objectives of employees, society, and customers have become in relation to the primary economic goals of the equity holders more important. The partially contrary relationships ... -
Reflections on Text Mining Approaches in Corporate Failure Prediction based on German Financial Statements
(2023-05-05)The field of corporate risk assessment is in a state of flux due to society's increased expectations of statistical methods, which are classified as part of the field of machine learning. While in earlier times multivariate ... -
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, ... -
Designing fiscal policy
(2023-04-24)This dissertation, comprising three academic papers, deals with the trade-off between fiscal sustainability and macroeconomic stabilization. The first paper examines the specification of fiscal reaction functions: We argue ...