Title:Psychological Factors and Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Immigrants and their Children in Germany
Author(s):THUM, Anna-ElisabethDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Chapter I:
Europe is facing the challenge of integrating a growing number of immigrants and their offspring. On the one hand immigration can be a necessity to overcome problems arising from demographic changes but on the ...
Title:Putting firms in context : the role of embeddedness in shaping corporate strategies
Author(s):ROMANO, LivioDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the social dimension of entrepreneurial activity, showing the importance of embeddedness with local communities and institutions in affecting corporate strategies. The first two chapters contribute ...
Title:Risk Attitudes and Measures of Value for Risky Lotteries
Author(s):LEWANDOWSKI, MichalDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The topic of this thesis is decision-making under risk. I focus my analysis on expected utility theory by von Neumann and Morgenstern. I am especially interested in modeling risk attitudes represented by Bernoulli utility ...
Title:Single Equation Instrumental Variable Models: Identification under discrete variation
Author(s):SMOLINSKI, KonradDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last decade, substantial interest in theoretical econometrics and microeconometrics has been directed towards nonparametric models. Much work has been devoted to the development of novel identification and estimation ...