Wie signalisieren hochbegabte Bewerber potenziellen Arbeitgebern ihr überdurchschnittliches Talent? Ein prominentes Kriterium ist die Ausbildung, denn Hochschulen lassen sich als Filtereinrichtungen interpretieren, die eine Einteilung von Studierenden in unterschiedliche Qualitätsstufen...

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

While traditionally sequential approaches have been used to deal with the cyclic/non-cyclic crew rostering problem in public transit, Lin Xie focuses on several solution approaches based on a novel network design to solve this task within one step. This is due to the fact that sequential...

Based on more than 10 years of practical experience in the field of supply chain management, Oliver Münch indicates that in favor of sustainability within the supply chain the paradox purchasing savings can and should be substituted with the approach of the First-Time-Right Procurement. This...

This book investigates several duality approaches for vector optimization problems, while also comparing them. Special attention is paid to duality for linear vector optimization problems, for which a vector dual that avoids the shortcomings of the classical ones is proposed. Moreover, the book...

Die Preise, zu denen Aktienindexoptionen an den internationalen Terminbörsen gehandelt werden, weichen in der Regel systematisch von den Implikationen des von Black, Scholes und Merton entwickelten Standartmodells der Optionsbewertung ab. Zur Erklärung dieses als "Smile-Effekt" bekannten...