Analysis

Jonas Meister

Causal Analysis on Observational Data for Discount Campaigns in E-Commerce

Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik

Causal thinking is an inherent human behavior crucial for understanding relationships in diverse situations. Despite its significance, machine learning algorithms often struggle to identify causality, relying instead on historical patterns. This limitation hampers their ability to adapt to new scenarios, like the cold start problem.

Understanding causality holds particular importance in domains relying heavily on human behavior analysis, such as E-commerce, […]

Boris Prevolšek / Črtomir Rozman

Analysis of the Efficiency of Tourist Farms in Slovenia

Examined Using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

„The monograph deals with the technical efficiency of tourist farms in Slovenia, which the authors assessed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) methods.

Thus, based on six inputs and four outputs, six different models were developed to evaluate the efficiency of tourist farms. Using the DEA method, the authors first developed input- and outputoriented BCC and CCR models, followed by the AHP method, first a model that […]

Michael Carlberg & Arne Hansen

Economic Analysis of a Great Recession

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Asset price bubbles refer to both real estate bubbles and stock market bubbles. The collapse of an asset price bubble means that asset prices go down while liabilities do not. As a result, millions of people have impaired balance sheets. Put another way, millions of people are in debt. In order to reduce their debt, they have to reduce their consumption. This in turn causes high and persistent unemployment. In other words, the described scenario leads to drastic economic […]

Douglas MacKinnon / Martin Pavlovič

HOPONOMICS: Market analysis applied to the hop industry 1980–2020

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Hoponomics provides an unprecedented look into the hop industry between 1980 and 2020 and introduces the topic most taboo within the industry, how and why the market works the way it does.

With a half century of combined experience across varying segments of the industry, the authors analyze the inner workings of the industry from an economic perspective. The book begins with a cursory overview and brief history of the hop industry for the unfamiliar reader. As […]

Chong Dae Kim

Three Essays on Housing Market Analysis in Germany

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This book is made up of three distinct papers, all of which focus on real house prices in Germany. The German economy is especially interesting for this endeavor as real house prices, until recently, have been falling steadily over the last twenty five years.

The approach of this book is to first examine the development of housing in Germany on an empirical level in order to establish a sound basis for the following research. The first paper points out that […]

Esat Çınar

A Comparative Analysis of EU Merger Control

Interests, Thresholds, Courts

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

Eine bessere Fusionskontrolle in der Europäischen Union ist eine nicht enden wollende Diskussion, die theoretische, politische und praktische Debatten umfasst.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf die Frage der Fusionskontrolle und untersucht die Richtigkeit der Fusionspolitik in der Europäischen Union. Das Wettbewerbsverständnis in diesem System wird zusammen mit den Fusionsregeln überprüft. Die Anforderungen der politischen und wirtschaftlichen […]

Jennifer Schäfer

Merging the Megatrends ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Digitalisation’

An Analysis on the Adoption of Smart Home Technologies in Real Estate

Nachhaltigkeits-Management – Studien zur nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung

As climate change mitigation intensifies, the exploration of “sustainability” and “digitalisation” in residential real estate becomes critical. This sector accounts for nearly half of global building emissions.

Focusing on eco-friendly smart home technologies, the author examines their limited adoption despite significant potential. Through three empirical lenses – spanning academic literature, real estate investors, and end-consumers – the study identifies key […]

Frane Erculj & Matej Supej

Kinematic Analysis of Basketball Shooting

Application of Different Technologies

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

This scientific monograph is a result of research work in the area of the study of the kinematics of a shot at the basket, which has been the central focus of the authors Frane Erculj and Matej Supej in the last decade. Along with the development of science and the profession, the technology used by the authors and their colleagues in their scientific and research work has also developed and changed. [...]

Ferit Cagdas Sahan

Litigation or Arbitration: A Comparative Analysis of Methods in Settling International Commercial Disputes

Studien zum Internationalen Privat- und Zivilprozessrecht sowie zum UN-Kaufrecht

This dissertation delivers a comprehensive examination of the methods to settle international commercial disputes, focusing on litigation and arbitration within the realms of private international law and international civil procedure. It employs a dual-methodological approach, combining qualitative and comparative analyses, to study the practical disadvantages inherent in these dispute resolution methods, with a particular emphasis on practices in Germany and […]

Xiaofan Yu

A Disaggregate Analysis of China‘s Regional Development

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

During the Chinese transitional period from a planned to a market economy, there were significant regional imbalances. On the one hand, we should admit that, given the vast size of China, regional disparities seem inevitable due to the unequal conditions seen historically; on the other hand, basing our judgment on China’s outstanding economic performance, using only on its national average growth can be misleading.

Such concern motivates this cumulative work. […]