Dissertations in 2025
Doctorates awarded at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2025:
Mustafa Pamuk
"Finding Path Towards AI-based Services in the Finance Industry" (Abstract)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann, Chair of Application Systems and E-Business
Examination date: 23 January 2025
Lennart Empting
"VAR Analysis of Heterogeneous Panel Data"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz, Chair of Econometrics
Examination date: 29 January 2025
Aycan Aslan
"A Double-Edged Sword: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications - Conceptual and Empirical Insights into the Interaction of Medical Stakeholders with Artificial Intelligence Explanations" (Abstract)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management
Examination date: 17 February 2025
Marvin Böhmker
"Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Organizational Contexts - An Investigation of Natural Language Processing in Clinical Healthcare"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management
Examination date: 20 February 2025
Alexander Erlei
"Essays on Economic Decision-Making in the Era of Machine Intelligence"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research
Examination date: 14 March 2025
Marilena Diel
"Variety of Boundaries and Boundary Work Within Medical Care Processes: Evidence from the German Primary-Care Sector"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Indre Maurer, Chair of Organization and Corporate Development
Examination date: 7 April 2025
Samuel Siewers
"On the Consequences of Trade: Inequality, the Environment, and Aid" (Abstract)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Chair of Development Economics
Examination date: 23 April 2025
Melanie Schwede
"Can Machines Be Persuasive? Insights into Conversational Agents as Sales Advisors from a Consumer and Firm Perspective"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maik Hammerschmidt, Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management
Examination date: 28 April 2025
Tabea Lakemann
"Small-scale entrepreneurship and informal employment: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jann Lay, GIGA - German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
Examination date: 20 May 2025
Katharina Fietz
"Social protection systems and decent jobs in the context of (in)formal labor markets"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jann Lay, GIGA - German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
Examination date: 11 June 2025
Jonas Stehl
"Essays on the Economics of Global Food Security"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer, Chair of Development Economics and Global Health
Examination date: 16 June 2025
Denise Pape
"High Hopes and Hard Truth: Navigating User Expectations in Immersive and Autonomous Technologies"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Waldemar Toporowski, Chair of Marketing and Retail Management
Examination date: 20 June 2025
Sarah Frohnweiler
"Improving Labor Market Outcomes: Interventions to Foster Skills Development and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Chair of International Economic Policy
Examination date: 26 June 2025
Philipp Struthmann
"Financial development, corruption and growth volatility"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz, Chair of Econometrics
Examination date: 4. July 2025