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Three essays on assortment, omnichannel inventory, and drone-enabled health supply chain optimization
(2023)
This work examines novel prospects and challenges in two primary domains: retail and healthcare delivery. In the retail sector, we make several methodological and analytical contributions. Pursuing an optimal portfolio of ...
Three essays on gender differences in tie formation and network returns
(2023)
Research partially attributes women's under-representation in leadership positions to gender differences in competitiveness and performance in competition. To establish the magnitude and boundary conditions of these effects, ...
Three essays on corporate finance
(2023)
This thesis is in the area of corporate finance and focuses on the impact that diversified institutional investors have on the competition in the product market of portfolio companies, also through the analysis of their ...
Inflation Patterns and Macroeconomic Factors: Insights from Cross-Country Analysis, Individual Goods, And Small Open Economies
(2023)
This thesis provides an exploration of inflation rates and their impacts on economies at both macro and micro levels. The work is structured as a collection of three interconnected studies, each offering insights into ...
Connectivity and Regional Interactions: Empirical Studies on Development Disparities, Collaborative Innovation, and Mobility
(2023)
This thesis explores the influence of interregional connectivity on the development of regions and their interactions. Connectivity takes various forms, whether through physical transport infrastructure or the ability to ...
Essays on humanitarian relief routing and modern slavery in supply chains
(2023)
According to the global humanitarian overview published by the UNOCHA, 274 million people needed some form of humanitarian assistance across the world in 2022. In the same year, 387 natural disasters were recorded world ...
Breaking Barriers: Essays on Gender Inequalities
(2023)
Cette thèse explore l’étendue, les causes et les conséquences des inégalités de genre en se concentrant principalement sur deux pays et deux formes d’inégalités : l’accès aux biens dans un pays en développement (l’Inde des ...
Essays on emotions and decision-making
(2020)
Les émotions constituent de puissants moteurs de nombreuses décisions. L'un des domaines omniprésents mais encore peu étudiés, où les émotions sont pertinentes dans la prise de décision des consommateurs, implique ...
Three essays on consumer decision-making
(2023)
1st Essay: Communication of Truly Novel Diseases (TNDs) - Role of Emphasis Framing.Communicating health-related information about truly novel diseases (TNDs) (e.g., COVID- 19) is a challenge. Our research underscores two ...
Who am i and where do i go from here? Three essays on roles and identities in times of change and threat
(2021)
The three essays in this dissertation focus on individuals’ experience of role-related dynamics, i.e., intense episodes of role turbulence or discontinuity. Of particular interest to me are role transitions and role-identity ...