My dissertation seeks to establish a nuanced understanding of security through an empirical account based on research in the field of aviation security. The core of the dissertation consists of 6 articles (published, ...
We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by his relative wealth, and by how concerned he is about having low relative wealth. Holding constant the ...
Two well-known processes from the field of mathematical population genetics are treated. The two processes are a class of branching processes and partition-valued, exchangeable coalescents. In both cases process-valued ...
A rationale for providing support to the farm sector in the course of economic development and structural change is a growing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a ...
Sites in Saône-et-Loire were object of early observations about the legacy of stone age people. As early as in the 1860s, first excavations were conducted at Solutré (1866), as well as at Grotte de la Verpillière (1868, ...