Microarrays enable to measure the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes simultaneously. One important statistical question in such experiments is which of the several thousand genes are differentially expressed. Answering this question requires methods that can deal with multiple...

Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent efforts have highlighted the potential to improve performance by introducing methods to personalize services based on...

In der vorliegenden Stellungnahme setzt sich das Thünen-Institut mit der Frage auseinander, wie sich wichtige Strategiepapiere, die die EU-Kommission und die Bundesregierung im zurückliegenden Jahr veröffentlicht haben, voraussichtlich auf Landwirtschaft, Forstwirtschaft und Fischerei...

There is a need for economic restructuring (also called transformation) to safeguard our natural resources, which our economy relies upon. To address global challenges in the use of bio-resources, the three dimensions of sustainable development need to be accounted for: environmental, social,...

We empirically investigate the determinants of the payment form in mergers and acquisitions and introduce new variables on the target and acquirer investment characteristics to evaluate whether the concerns of target and acquirer shareholders are taken into account. Our sample encompasses...