The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the reactions caused by index replacements in the German benchmark stock …-indices DAX, MDAX and HDAX. Usually financial theory suggests that the fact of an index replacement contains no new valuation …-relevant evidence. However the financial press frequently speculates about index replacements and the consequences on the underlying …

Quality of life and productivity are two important measures in health outcomes that usually require the use of self …-reported surveys for accurate assessment. Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been established as an important field …. Another health measure that has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years, although there is no gold …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

of skill as they are affected by an illusion of control and overconfidence.Although the present finding may already be …

) provides both control and accountability of the vendor and the contract arrangements. Despite the recognised importance of …

of reliability and validity. We find that propensity to plan is moderately domain-specific. Scale measures and actual …

construct validity and internal consistencyof the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (MBI-GS) (Schaufeli, Leiter … coefficients wereused to assess the internal consistency and construct validity of the MBI-GS. Descriptivestatistics were used to …

determine the reliability and validity of the OCQ, the HRPQ, andthe SSPPQ instruments, as well as to assess the relationship …