Das vorliegende Dissertationsprojekt hatte zwei zentrale Schwerpunkte. Den ersten Schwerpunkt bildete die innovative Insolvenzprognosemodellierung für ukrainische Unternehmen.Dafür wurde im Wesentlichen die moderne internationale Standardmethodik zur Insolvenzprognose auf Basis der...

While much attention has focused on the modelling of the interdependencies between key aggregates and stock indices in industrialised countries, this thesis is focused on investments in emerging markets and real estate – two research branches that have up to now not been investigated to a...

In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The purpose of this study was to compare the relative accuracy of different thermal-germination models in predicting germination-time under constant-temperature conditions. Of specific interest was the assessment of shape assumptions associated with the cardinal-temperature...

The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence...

Periodic shortfalls of organic food have been commonplace in the USA. Shortages, created when demand grows faster than supply, have been exacerbated by relatively slow growth of certified organic farmland (in comparison to growth in retail sales) over the past decade. Organic intermediaries,...

Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Unterschieden des geldpolitischen Transmissionsprozesses im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auseinander. Dazu wird der Sektor nach der Systematik der BACH-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission in 10 Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung...