The dissertation analyzes and combines two fields that are especially relevant for managers and researchers in the area of marketing: consumers’ purchase and post-purchase behavior. More precisely, price effects and usage effects.

This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays and contributes to find optimal tax policies by analysing different tax policy instruments and taxpayers' behavioural responses to them. Moreover, it also provides ...

Defining welfare in a society has always been of the utmost interest among the most different scholarly disciplines that sought to develop an adequate measure to determine differences between and within countries of this ...

The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of two prominent labor market institutions in Germany: the recently introduced federal minimum wage and the influence of unions on the ...

The innovative nature of startups may foster the development of all industry sectors. In an era with low interest rates on many traditional investment alternatives, startups have become a more and more noteworthy way of ...

The economic research presented in this dissertation is motivated by current issues in health economics – a science in between the fields of economics, health sciences, politics and not at least medicine. This dissertation ...

This dissertation presents theoretical and empirical analyses in order to provide some new answers to three questions of migration research: What determines migration? Who migrates? How does migration impact on the sending ...