Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Investigation of selected Controlling Instruments
(2024-11-14)In the dissertation, three controlling instruments were examined: methods for determining individual risk attitudes, remuneration systems and behaviour-oriented controls, which play important roles in a corporate context. ... -
Essays on the role of CSR information in capital markets: Evidence from stakeholders and information intermediaries
(2024-11-12)This thesis analyizes the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in capital markets and its use by stakeholders and information intermediaries. On the basis of three studies, the thesis contributes to ... -
Better Banking Through Crises
(2024-10-29)Already in the 2000s, the monetary and financial system and its mechanisms of action increasingly became the focus of economic and social sciences. The financial crisis of 2007 and the subsequent euro crisis acted as ... -
Current Issues in Rural Development: Land Tenure, Land Use Change and Climate Change
(2024-10-10)This doctoral dissertation is composed of three scientific articles investigating the role of land tenure on agricultural productivity, the responses of smallholders to climate change, and the consequences of Large-Scale ... -
Greening Consumption: Decoding the Influence of Vegan Label and 'Rescued' Claim
(2024-07-18)The global food system significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with animal-derived products and food waste representing two major factors. Reducing the consumption of animal-derived products and minimizing ... -
Social Structures and Response to Misconduct: An Empirical Analysis of Economic, Social, and Psychological Factors in Norm Enforcement
(2024-06-18)This dissertation investigates norm enforcement in various social and economic contexts, particularly focusing on third-party reporting, public goods provision, and corporate environments. Through a series of laboratory ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks
(2024-02-29)The System for the Prevention and Analysis of School Dropouts in Higher Education (SPADIES) played a pivotal role in addressing the challenge of reducing drop-out rates in Colombian higher education, contributing to an ... -
Konstruktbasierte Bestimmung domänenorientierter komplexer Problemlösefähigkeit mit Komplexen Standardisierten Itemsequenzen
(2024-02-21)Die Fähigkeit, komplexe Probleme zu lösen, hat als Forschungsgegenstand in den vergangenen Jahren merklich das Interesse der Erziehungswissenschaften auf sich gezogen. Auch in ihrer Ausformung zur Kompetenz gilt sie als ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reporting by Non-Listed Companies on Corporate Social Responsibility
(2024-01-30)In the first study, I empirically investigate the association between ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) preferences of external and internal non-shareholder stakeholders and mandatory CSR reporting in a setting of ... -
Essays in quantitative economics: Improvements in measurements and macroeconomic analysis
(2023-12-22)This thesis highlights opportunities and challenges related to the use of data in empirical economics. The interpretation of data is the primary tool we as economists have at our disposal to calibrate our models and test ... -
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 ... -
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 ...