Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

The purpose of this study is to identify ideal behaviors and attitudes that are needed by service providers that cater to highly vulnerable populations. While the conceptualization of customer vulnerability has been widely debated in business, marketing, sociology, and psychology scholarly...

Este documento estima el efecto de la calidad de las instituciones en el patrón de especialización productiva observado en España en el período 1999-2014 a nivel local. La investigación parte de la observación de que la actividad económica en España muestra un fuerte patrón de...

Las decisiones de inversión son generalmente irreversibles y podrían verse afectadas por problemas de cautividad y oportunismo. Un marco de inversión estable necesita, por tanto, de instituciones de ejecución sólidas. Este documento analiza datos a nivel de empresa para estudiar el impacto...

the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...

Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...