This dissertation comprises of three stand-alone research papers, all considering the use of high frequency financial data for financial market risk measurement. The first chapter considers the extraction of liquidity information from the intraday limit order book to enhance the daily market...

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

This dissertation presents a detailed study of geostatistics. Included in this workare details of the development of geostatistics and its usefulness both in andoutside of the mining industry, a comprehensive presentation of the theory ofgeostatistics, and a discussion of the application of this...

Die meisten wissenschaftlichen Studien, die sich einer Analyse des gesellschaftlichen Problems „Armut“ widmen, untersuchen die Armutssituation in einer Periode. Da eine statische Betrachtungsweise aber nur ein unvollständiges Bild vermittelt, wird in dieser Arbeit die individuelle Dynamik von...