Wildfire seasons are becoming longer and more intense throughout the world, making it increasingly important to monetize the full damages caused by wildfires when analyzing various fire management policies. We estimate the economic costs of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire...

Nosocomial infection represents an important public health problem indeveloping countries as in developed ones. Economic concerns have takenon increasing importance in infection control since the mid 1970s inthe USA, however there are few papers on the economics of NI in othercountries. Studies...

Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and the interest in ageing. A general characteristic of survey-based health research is its diversity. Different studies are based on different health questions in different...

The paper attempts to shed light on the key drivers of consumer tipping behavior and reports the findings from an exploratory study aimed at addressing consumer motivations and their influence on consumers’ willingness to tip. When approaching the research issue, the phenomenon presents an...

This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical evidence on the effect of local norms on the contractual choice, using a comprehensive dataset on US agricultural leasing contracts. We focus on the choice between cash-rent and...

Given that information technology (IT) security has emerged as animportant issue in the last few years, the subject of securityinformation sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize securitybreaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. Topromote the disclosure and sharing of...

In this thesis, we develop a SKU level market basket model and apply the model to investigate cross-category reference price effects. This research extends previous work on the category-level multivariate logit model (Russell and Petersen 2000). Our model is a generalization of the multivariate...

Als Resultat der Metallerzeugung und -verarbeitung fallen zwangsläufig eine Reihe von Abfällen an. Zur Aufbereitung und Verwertung eines Teils dieser Kuppelprodukte, hauptsächlich Stäuben und Schlämmen aus Gasreinigungen, konnte sich in den vergangenen Jahren die Verwertung in modifizierten...