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Working after hours, sharing availability expectations, and interrupting yourself: Extending perspectives on ICT-related concepts in research
(2019)
This dissertation investigates Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their role for recovery, well-being, and performance at work. The three empirical studies compiled in this dissertation investigate the influence of ICT work-related use at work and at home, as well as supervisors’ expectations regarding extended availability. The three main goals of the dissertation were to explore alternative ways of understanding ICT-related concepts, to identify additional factors that change their impact and the ...
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"Währungsunion ohne Wirtschaftsunion"
(2019)
Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die wirtschaftspolitische Analyse der Konstruktion der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion. Während die Geld- und Währungspolitik in Europa seit 1999 vollständig supranationalisiert ist, verbleiben zentrale Politikbereiche wie die Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik weiterhin in nationalstaatlicher Verantwortung. Die derzeitigen Probleme der EWWU – so die grundlegende Erkenntnis dieser Arbeit – sind v.a. darin begründet, dass die Währungsunion nicht durch eine adäquate Wirtschaftsunion ...
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On the Cooperation of Groups in Social Dilemmas
(2020)
Die Menschheit steht vor zahlreichen Umweltproblemen wie dem Klimawandel, Luft- und Wasserverschmutzung, Biodiversitätsverlust und der Übernutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. All diese Probleme haben gemein, dass sie soziale Dilemmata darstellen und nur durch die Kooperation großer Gruppen gelöst werden können. Diese Dissertation bietet eine Analyse zur Kooperation von Gruppen in vier Studien. Die Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen. In Teil I werden zwei Laborexperimente präsentiert, in denen Entscheidungen von Individuen ...
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Human Behavior and Public Goods Provision - Empirical Evidence from the Laboratory and International Climate Negotiations
(2020)
This thesis comprises an introductory chapter followed by four distinct but connected articles. The common thread is the quest to understand human behavior in the provision of public goods and how this behavior is impacted by institutional and situational factors. The main body of the thesis can be divided into two thematic parts with two articles each.
Part 1 focuses on the international climate negotiations as a platform for international cooperation. The two articles in this part, presented in Chapter 2 and 3, ...
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Capital Accumulation, Sector Productivity, and Economic Growth
(2023)
This dissertation is motivated by the research results of Benigno and Fornaro (2014). Benigno and Fornaro (2014) research, how low interest rates impact the productivity of economies.
This dissertation implements extensions of the Benigno and Fornaro (2014) model, that particularly address the capital accumulation, the production functions, and the technology accumulation. In doing so, this dissertation shows that some of the Benigno und Fornaro (2014) research results require specific assumptions, to qualitatively ...
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Tracing World-Class Universities in the Global Public(ity) Sphere
(2023)
Tracing World-class Universities in the Global Public(ity) Sphere The salience of reputation management has grown, both in terms of scale and prominence, in higher education management and governance, and, subsequently, higher education research in the past two decades. Reputation management is no longer a peripheral topic of interest for a few higher education researchers judging from the exponential growth in the volume of academic literature and the changing external environment in which universities communicate ...
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Individual Decision-Making and Inflation Persistence
(2015-03-10)
The traditional task of a central bank is to preserve price stability and, in doing so, not to impair the real economy more than necessary. To meet this challenge, it is of great relevance whether inflation is only driven by inflation expectations and the current output gap or whether it is, in addition, influenced by past inflation. In the former case, as described by the New Keynesian Phillips curve, the central bank can immediately and simultaneously achieve price stability and equilibrium output, the so-called ...
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Individual climate mitigation in the energy sector
(2021)
Based on micro-econometric analyses of survey data, this thesis extends existing research on the determinants of climate-friendly behavior in the energy sector with a special focus on economic preferences and social identity. It contains an overarching introduction and conclusion including a discussion of the policy implications of the results and avenues for future research. The main body of the thesis contains six research articles, organized in two subsections containing three articles each. All six research ...
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Towards a Better Understanding of Entrepreneurial Teams: Investigating Temporal Dynamics on Multiple Levels
(2023)
This dissertation investigates entrepreneurial teams in the process of creating new ventures. The new venture creation process is complex. Different actors impact the new venture creation process in various ways, either facilitating or complicating it. The three studies at the heart of this thesis aim to cut through this complexity by examining the social context (i.e., entrepreneurial teams) and the temporal dynamics occurring in more detail. All studies address the conditions underpinning entrepreneurial teamwork ...
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Economic Aspects of Market-based Flexibility for Electricity Networks
(2023)
This thesis contributes to the discussion of the utilization of network-supportive flexibility, in particular in the context of local flexibility markets (LFM). The thesis comprises five articles that are methodologically related but can be read independently. The focus of the investigations is on economic aspects and short- and medium-term market processes.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the topic including the definition of the most important terms. Chapter 2 includes the paper, “Design of regional flexibility ...