Dynamics of Balance of Payment developments are still barely researched. Chapter 1 tries to summarize empirical evidence between institutional determinants and BoP movements and proposes a framework for the role of institutions in a debt cycle. It is found that “good” institutions do help a...

Growing appreciation of the novel challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is among the core drivers of the ongoing transformation in the food industry. In response to the growing costs for society and the environment, the broad reliance on large-scale and industrial methods of...

Like in several sectors of consumer demand, attitudes, believes, and the political environment may also influence the worldwide demand for tourism. Consequentially, this thesis concentrates on a wider range of determinants including non-economical factors of tourism demand and supply in both the...

Die Transmission zentralbankpolitischer Maßnahmen im Bezug auf die Bankkreditvergabe hat sich seit der Globalen Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007/2008 drastisch geändert. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich die vorliegende Dissertation vor allem mit der empirischen Messung der Kreditvergabe in...