Wissenschaftliche Literatur Literature

Thorsten Heimann

The Labour Income Risk Associated with the Occupational Choice

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The value of human capital critically depends on two factors: the person's skills and the economic environment, both of which are exposed to a substantial risk of future deterioration. In particular, changes in the economic environment are uninsurable. An individual takes the risk that, after having made substantial human capital investments in an occupation, the overall earnings level in that occupation performs significantly worse than in others. This decline in…

Niklas Lampenius

Decision Making in Financial Markets

Development and Validation of a Behavioral Model Utilizing a Multi-Agent-Multi-Period Stock Market Simulation

Finanzmanagement

This work extends the discussion on artificial markets research using a novel approach to model decision making in financial markets. The topic is motivated through a thorough overview on economic and behavioral decision making as well as a review of the stock market simulation literature. A decision making model including various behavioral components is thereafter presented and the model is validated utilizing a multi-agent-multi-period stock market simulation. The…

Xiaojun Wei

EU Foreign Direct Investments to China

Locational Determinants and Lessons from an Enlarged European Union

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The main research question of this dissertation relates to the spatial characteristics and location choice of EU FDI to China in the context of an EU that has enlarged recently to incorporate ten new countries with levels of development comparable to some of the Chinese provinces. In the first place, a dataset of EU FDI inflows at provincial level is created based on the annual provincial statistical yearbooks, and a pioneering econometric study on the spatial…

Samuel Grossenbacher

Inside the Mind of Decision Makers

Antecedents and Consequences of Managers‘ Mental Models

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Managers apply simplified representations of reality to make sense of their complex environment. These so called mental models influence decision-making and performance in organizations. In this study, the author discusses the theoretical foundations of mental models. Furthermore, a literature review of antecedents and consequences of individual managers’ mental models is provided. The literature review and the findings of three empirical studies shed light on the…

Javier Perez-Freije

Design of Organizational Controls for Managing Innovation

Implications for Firms in High-Velocity Environments

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Managing innovation is crucial for firm success in high-velocity environments. Although the primary emphasis of R&D professional literature has been on formalizing development activities, this book defines a control concept for the fuzzy front-end of the innovation process, which is characterized by higher levels of ambiguity and uncertainty that in turn diminish administrative information, or firms‘ knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships and outputs. [...]

Tilman Berger & Biljana Golubović (Hrsg.)

Morphologie – Mündlichkeit – Medien

Festschrift für Jochen Raecke

Studien zur Slavistik

Die Festschrift ehrt einen Forscher, der zu sehr unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen der Slavistik anregende Beiträge vorgelegt hat – zu seinem ursprünglichen Schwerpunkt, der Linguistik, sind später auch literaturwissenschaftliche und medienwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen hinzugekommen. Diese Breite spiegelt auch die Festschrift wider: Die Beiträge reichen von der Linguistik über die Literaturwissenschaft bis zur Medienwissenschaft und befassen sich mit verschiedenen…

Günther Klotz, Christian Timm (Hrsg.)

Annäherungen Literaten und Literaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts

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Ulmer Sprachstudien

Mit dem vorliegenden achten Band beschreiten die Ulmer Sprachstudien neue Wege. Waren die ersten Bände Monographien - im Sinne der Verfasserschaft und des Themas - so liegt dieses Mal ein thematisch in sich geschlossener Band vor, der Beiträge verschiedener Autoren vereint.

Die ersten drei Beiträge befassen sich mit Literaten anglophoner Provenienz. William Adamson gebührt dabei das Verdienst, dem nahezu unbekannten amerikanischen Autor David Karp den ihm…

Angela Richter, Ekaterina G. Muščenko

Das XX. Jahrhundert: Slavische Literaturen im Dialog mit dem Mythos

POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft

Remythisierung und Dekonstruktion von Mythen, ja ein Hunger nach dem Mythos - diese Erscheinungen werden besonders auch in den slavischen Literaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts beobachtet. Als sicher kann gelten, daß Illusionsverluste über gesellschaftliche Projekte und Realitäten sowie Verfallserscheinungen ein verstärktes Interesse am Mythischen in den literarischen Texten hervorgerufen haben.

Die Formen der literarischen Aktualisierung von Mythen können dabei, wie…

Daniel Hartmann

Stock Markets and Real-Time Macroeconomic Data

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

It has been common practice in empirical studies to use revised macroeconomic data that are available to a researcher ex post for the analysis of historical time series. This practice, however, does not take into account that macroeconomic data are revised over time and that theses revisions can be substantial. Results of empirical analyses may change when data available at different periods are used. This raises the question of whether data availability has to be taken…

Matthias Türck

European Regional Convergence

An Empirical Analysis of the Enlarged European Union

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

The main focus of this book surrounds the question of whether poor Europan regions catch up to wealthier economies over time. After an overview of the theoretical framework and an extensive literature report we estimate several spatial econometric models. Our analysis is based on ß-convergence models, which are investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. We find empirical evidence for absolute and conditional ß-convergence. In addition, we…