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

• Matti Boie-Wegener

  
  

  "Firms’ Real and Reporting Responses to Tax Policy: Evidence on Investment Incentives, Anti-Avoidance Measures, and Dispute Resolution"

  
  

  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Oestreicher, Tax Division

  
  

  Examination date: 17 July 2025

• Hanna Meiners

  
  

  "Emotionales Erleben kaufmännischer Auszubildender bei der Bearbeitung technologiegestützter Aufgaben: Eine Untersuchung der Wirkung von Gestaltungselementen des emotionalen Designs in authentischen Aufgaben zu kaufmännischen Problemsituationen" (The emotional experience of commercial trainees when working on technology-supported tasks: An investigation into the effect of emotional design elements on authentic tasks in commercial problem situations)

  
  

  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber, Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development

  
  

  Examination date: 23 July 2025