This study analysed the dynamics of the international soybean market using econometric techniques and economic models to study the impacts of the US-China trade war. It considered the analysis of "spatial" (horizontal) price transmission during an approximately ten-year period from September...

This study uses a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to examine the relationships between the intensity of drilling (i.e. investment) for natural gas production, natural gas withdrawals, economic activity and natural gas prices in the United States. The results show that the reaction...

Capital structure theories are often formulated as causal narratives to explain which factors drive financing choices. These narratives are usually examined by estimating cross-sectional relations between leverage and its determinants. However, the limitations of causal inference from...

Die Dissertation verknüpft empirische Analysen zur Wirkung von Arbeitszeitverlängerungen, zum Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitszeitkonten und einer Auswahl betrieblicher Indikatoren und zum Effekt der Teilzeitansprüche auf den betrieblichen Einsatz Teilzeitbeschäftigter. Gestützt auf Daten des...

The study's objective is to check whether the predictive power of Machine Learning Techniques is better than Logistic Regression in predicting the bankruptcy of firms and that the same predictive power of ascertaining bankruptcy improves when a proxy for uncertainty is added to the model as a...

Demographic aging results in a growing number of older people in need of care in many regions all over the world. Germany has witnessed steady population aging for decades, prompting policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss how to fulfill the rapidly growing demand for care workers and...

We formulate a measure of information efficiency in a general, no-arbitrage semimartingale model of the price process. The market quality measure is applied to a high-frequency dataset from the interdealer FX market to identify changes in market efficiency after a decimalization of tick size.