Methods

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 […]

Črtomir Rozman, Stanislav Tojnko, Tatjana Unuk, Karmen Pažek, Mario Lešnik

Decision Support Systems in Fruit Production

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The modern computer based decision support methods have been gaining on importance. In this book we present modern decision support methods and their application in fruit production. The real life applications presented in the book are a direct result of authors long lasting research work and until now unpublished research material in this field. The decision support software and its development methods are presented theoretically and practically on real life decision […]

Tobias Wiens

Scheduling – Transportation – Pricing

Selected Problems and their Solutions

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Tobias Wiens investigates three selected problems in the fields of scheduling, transportation and pricing, with the aim of introducing appropriate analytical methods as a basis for better decision making. The author first introduces the new research field of team assignment and scheduling, taking into account team production effects. In contrast to the opinions prevalent in literature on job splitting, a given job’s processing time is not simply its default processing […]

Mirjam Bon Klanjšček / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Darjo Felda

Statistical Literacy Among Secondary School Students

Achieving a Higher Level of Statistical Literacy

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The statistical education should be in step with modern didactic trends, which recommend the use of statistics in relation to everyday life and thus develop and improve statistical literacy. But as statistics is made part of mathematics instruction, solving statistical problems tends to be dominated by mathematical thinking, emphasizing mathematical models, methods and procedures, with the techniques being more important than the statistical problem itself. There is not […]

Daniel M. Ringel

Creating Insights in Large Markets

Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance

Today, firms face large and complex markets, in which they must make strategic and tactic decisions. However, their ability to make informed decisions is limited. First, they lack access to comprehensive data regarding the large markets in which they operate. Second, even in cases in which such data are available, traditional analysis methods in marketing cannot adequately address the vast quantities of data points involved thousands of consumers, firms, and products. […]

Anne Schaefer

Nonparametric frontier-based analysis of efficiency and its drivers in business processes

Comparison of methods with empirical application to an OTC derivatives post-trade clearing process of a major German bank

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Effizienzmessung von Prozessen ist ein Thema von zentraler Bedeutung für Finanzdienstleister. In der akademischen Literatur ist die Effizienzmessung mit der Nonparametric Frontier Analysis weit verbreitet. Die fundamentalen Vorteile der Methoden aus diesem Bereich sind die Möglichkeit der Integration mehrere Input-/Outputvariablen in eine Analyse und die nicht erforderliche Definition einer funktionalen Form der Produktionsfunktion. Jedoch gibt es bisher kaum Anwendungen […]

Natalie Kienzle

Empirical B-to-B Marketing Research – A Literature-based Analysis of the Period Between 1983 and 2012

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Business-to-Business (B-to-B) marketing has become an essential research discipline in the marketing science. This has increased the necessity to review the existing literature not only with regard to investigated topics but in regard to the applied methodology as well, as the methodology constitutes the foundation of every research discipline and indicates the scientific maturity level.

Since existing literature reviews merely give a partial analysis of the […]

Bertrand Michel Pamfouet Kemtie

(Non-)Signature and Ratification of Multilateral Regional Agreements

An Explanation of States‘ Behavior in the African Union

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

(Non-)signature and ratification of multilateral treaties has become a major policy concern. Its relevance to the African Union is rising since the 66th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers.

Even though scholars have discussed how domestic factors and state’s openness shape treaty approval, the behavior of African states has been hitherto ignored. The author shows that Africa’s omission from international relations’ research is ill-informed, […]

Katharina Pfarrherr / Karin Schleider

Netzwerke der psychosozialen Versorgung bei ADHS

Eine empirische Studie zu Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Kooperation

Schriften zur medizinischen Psychologie

Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörungen (AD(H)S) stellen eine der häufigsten diagnostizierten psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter dar. Aktuelle nationale und internationale Behandlungsleitlinien fordern ein multimodales Vorgehen, wodurch eine Kooperation und die Abstimmung der einzelnen beteiligten Professionen und Institutionen unumgänglich werden. In Deutschland finden Kooperationen in professionellen psychosozialen Netzwerken bei ADHS aktuell noch […]

Fiona Ungemach

Information Efficiency of Accounting Standards

Finanzmanagement

The analysis of financial statements plays an important role in performance measurement and equity valuation. Accounting information not necessarily reflects the economic situation of a firm but is subject to regulatory frameworks that make financial statement data difficult to interpret economically. The general accounting principles in combination with discretionary managerial decisions applying the accounting principles involve differences between economic and […]