Dissertations in 2024



Doctorates awarded at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2024:




  • Ansgar Quint


    "Theoretic Essays in Public Economics - Profit Shifting in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium and the Role of Information in Career Concern Models"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schwager, Chair of Public Economics


    Examination date: 10 January 2024






  • Luis Omar Herrera Prada


    "From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research, University of Göttingen


    Examination date: 2 February 2024






  • Daniel Hirschmann


    "The role of university-related intermediation in supporting sustainability transitions in regional innovation initiatives in Germany"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research


    Examination date: 1 March 2024






  • Michelle Lang


    "CEO Succession and Strategic Communication: An Empirical Analysis of the Interplay between CEOs, Boards, and the Capital Market"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control


    Examination date: 8 March 2024






  • Tobias Blay


    "Navigating the Future of Work: New Perspectives on Virtual Collaboration"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Fabian J. Froese, Chair of Human Resources Management and Asian Business


    Examination date: 8 March 2024






  • Till Ole Diesterhöft


    "Managing Informational Uncertainty in Customer Data Breaches: Empirical Insights into Understanding and Addressing Customer Needs in Healthcare Security Incidents"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management


    Examination date: 15 March 2024






  • Dominic Maier


    "The future of finance in times of climate change: An empirical analysis of climate-related risk awarness, sustainability action and CFO impact"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control


    Examination date: 29 April 2024






  • Ann-Charline Weber


    "Aspects of restricted access to resources: Protest, numeracy skills, early childcare, nutrition supplementation"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer, Chair of Development Economics / Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)


    Examination date: 10 June 2024






  • Melanie Dunger


    "Social Structures and Response to Misconduct: An Empirical Analysis of Economic, Social, and Psychological Factors in Norm Enforcement"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser, Chair of Microeconomics


    Examination date: 14 June 2024






  • Laura Diniz Penteado de Barros


    "Socio-economic and political consequences of labor market shocks: Evidence from Brazil"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Chair of International Economic Policy


    Examination date: 27 June 2024






  • Fernanda Carneiro-Otto


    "Greening Consumption: Decoding the Influence of Vegan Label and 'Rescued' Claim"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Boztuğ, Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behavior


    Examination date: 28 June 2024






  • Fabian Engel


    "Better Banking Through Crises - Krisen als Innovationstreiber des Bankmarketings" (Better Banking Through Crises - Crises as Drivers of Innovation in Bank Marketing)


    Supervisor: Apl. Prof. Dr. Ingo Köhler, Institute for Economic and Social History


    Examination date: 2 July 2024






  • Sascha Lichtenberg


    "Working Digital - Shaping Motivation and Behavior by Information System Design Elements: Analyzing Pro-Task and Pro-User Effects Induced by Acknowledging Digital Work"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management


    Examination date: 23 August 2024






  • Gilian Kant


    "Social Media Insights through Advanced Natural Language Processing-Based Machine Learning"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib, Chair of Statistics


    Examination date: 16 September 2024






  • Anton Thielmann


    "Interpretable Probabilistic Machine Learning: On Topic Modeling and Tabular Deep Learning"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib, Chair of Statistics


    Examination date: 16 September 2024






  • Sebastian Leue


    "The Economics of Globalization: Migration, Trade, and Investment"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Chair of Development Economics


    Examination date: 19 September 2024






  • Jana Wagner


    "Essays on the role of CSR information in capital markets: Evidence from stakeholders and information intermediaries"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Markus Hitz, Chair of Financial Accounting and Financial Analysis, University of Tübingen


    Examination date: 10 October 2024






  • Chris Gabriel Islam


    "Meta-research in times of data science - Using automation, machine learning, and modern econometrics to analyze open science in economics and related fields"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz, Chair of Econometrics


    Examination date: 17 October 2024






  • Natascha Loth


    "Bounded Rationality in Compensation: An Empirical Analysis of Biases in Employee and Manager Decision Making"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control


    Examination date: 25 October 2024






  • Ainslee Erhard


    "Nudging Plant-Based Food Choice"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Boztuğ, Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behavior


    Examination date: 25 October 2024






  • Jannes Menck


    "Understanding Virtual Reality as a Tool for Experimental Research in Information Systems - The Case of Application Strategies: Exploring the Why, How, and When of Utilizing Virtual Reality in Information Systems Research"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management


    Examination date: 15 November 2024






  • Ben Dalka


    "Executive Minds at Work: An Analysis of the Psychological Underpinnings of Top Management Decision Making"


    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control


    Examination date: 22 November 2024










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