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Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Business Administration program, College of Business, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Dissertation: Two Essays on Industry Tournament Incentives , Sarah Almisher

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment , Amin Amoulashkarian

Dissertation: Two Essays on Retail Trading , Qiqi Liang

Dissertation: Two Essays in Real Estate Dynamics , Navid Safari

Dissertation: Firm Capabilities, Great Power Competition, and the Structural Reshaping of Globalization , Samuel Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Dissertation: Three Essays on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Momentum, and Firm Investment Efficiency , Chen Chen

Dissertation: Exploring Blockchain-Based Digital Transformation In Organizations , Weiru Chen

Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Award-Winning CEOS , Veronika Ciarleglio

Dissertation: Two’s a Crowd? Implications of Economic Geography for Corporate Governance , Matthew Farrell

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of CEO Social Activism , Habib Islam

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Role of Empathy in Consumer Response to User-Generated Content , Mohammadali Koorank Beheshti

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior , Saeed Zal

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value , Rongyao Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity , Fatemeh Askarzadeh

Dissertation: Application of Optimization Techniques in Corporate Cash Management , Venkateswara Reddy Dondeti

Dissertation: Two Essays on Corruption, FDI, and Digitalization , Mahdi Forghani Bajestani

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Information Embedded in Flow of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) , Hamed Yousefi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Dissertation: The Influence of Mating Motives on Reliance on Form Versus Function in Product Choice , Seyed Hamid Abbassi Hosseini

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy , Rajib Chowdhury

Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation , Son T. Dang

Dissertation: Essay 1: How We Feel: The Role of Macro-Economic Sentiment in Advertising Spending-Sales Relationship; Essay 2: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Effect of Emotional Uncertainty and Arousal on Healthy Food Choices , Leila Khoshghadam

Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance , Jin Ho Kim

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Roles of Review Valence and Conflict in Online Relationships , Ran Liu

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias , Zhaohui Li

Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt , Xiang Long

Dissertation: Pricing the Cloud: An Auction Approach , Yang Lu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Envy , Murong Miao

Dissertation: Two Essays on Negotiations Between Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors , Aydin Selim Oksoy

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume , Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing , Qiuye Cai

Dissertation: Success Factors Impacting Artificial Intelligence Adoption --- Perspective From the Telecom Industry in China , Hong Chen

Dissertation: Early Information Access to Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion , Anjee Gorkhali

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Consumer Acculturation Process – A Need for and Development of a Consumer Acculturation Measure , Kristina Marie Harrison

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions , Trung Nguyen

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior , Andrew Root

Dissertation: Underlying Factors Behind Generation of Different Types of User-Generated Content - Impact of Individual and Brand/Product Level Factors in Generation of Brand-Oriented Content and Community-Oriented Content , Kemal Cem Soylemez

Dissertation: Customers’ Goal-Related Behavior in Loyalty Programs , Junzhou Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Dissertation: Security Risk Tolerance in Mobile Payment: A Trade-off Framework , Yong Chen

Dissertation: Numerical Framing and Emotional Arousal as Moderators of Review Valence and Consumer Choices , Anh Dang

Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment , Sonik Mandal

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Creation and Success of New Ventures , Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh

Dissertation: Effectiveness of Social Media Analytics on Detecting Service Quality Metrics in the U.S. Airline Industry , Xin Tian

Dissertation: Two Essays on Value Co-Creation , Hangjun Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends , Bader Almuhtadi

Dissertation: The Role of Consumer Ethnocentrism on the Effects of Domestic vs Foreign Product Failure on Post Consumption Emotions and Complaint Behaviors , Kittinand Bandhumasuta

Dissertation: The Impact of Help-Self and Help-Others Appeals Upon Participation in Clinical Research Trials , Susan Lewis Casey

Dissertation: Is Every Tweet Created Equal? A Framework to Identify Relevant Tweets for Business Research , Thad Chee

Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment , Feng Dong

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Impact of Institutional Structures on Entrepreneurship: Country Level Analysis , Mehdi Sharifi Khobdeh

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Antecedents and Effects of Internationalizing Out of Emerging and Developed Economies , Mark Robert Mallon

Dissertation: From Placebo to Panacea: Exploring the Influence of Price, Suspicion, and Persuasion Knowledge on Consumers’ Perception of Quality , Vahid Rahmani

Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability , Zhijun Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Dissertation: The Effect of XBRL and Social Media on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Bank Loan Contracts , Dazhi Chong

Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting , Asligul Erkan

Dissertation: Two Essays on The Internationalization Speed of New Ventures , Orhun Guldiken

Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value , Yi Jian

Dissertation: Valence or Volume? Maximizing Online Review Influence Across Consumers, Products, and Marketing , Elika Kordrostami

Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium , Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui

Dissertation: A Study of the Impact of Information Blackouts on the Bullwhip Effect of a Supply Chain Using Discrete-Event Simulations , Elizabeth Rasnick

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets , Jiancheng Shen

Dissertation: Two Studies on The Use of Information Technology in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) , David McCaw Simmonds

Dissertation: Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context , Christina Helen Tupper

Dissertation: Ambidexterity: The Interplay of Supply Chain Management Competencies and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Organizational Performance , Serdar Turedi

Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling , Zhaobo Zhu

Dissertation: Buying Love Through Social Media: How Different Types Of Incentives Impact Consumers’ Online Sharing Behavior , Yueming Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy , Mehmet Deren Caliskan

Dissertation: "The Magic Formula: Scent and Brand"- The Influence of Olfactory Sensory Co-Branding on Consumer Evaluations and Experiences , Ceren Ekebas

Dissertation: The Value of Integrated Information Systems for U.S. General Hospitals , Liuliu Fu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management , Sanjib Guha

Dissertation: Three Essays on Opportunistic Claiming Behavior in a Services Setting: Customers and Front Line Employees Perspectives , Denis Khantimirov

Dissertation: Spillover Effects of Brand Alliance and Service Experience on Host Brands in Loyalty Program Partnerships , Gulfem Cigdem Kutlu

Dissertation: Measuring Consumer Expectations of Salesperson Unethicality: A Scale Development , Amiee Mellon

Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations , Liang Meng

Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing , Nadia Asmaa Nafar

Dissertation: International Venture Capital Firms Syndication and Performance: A Social Network Perspective , Amir Pezeshkan

Dissertation: Three Essays on Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Development , Adam Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Earnings Management in Emerging Markets , Shuji Rosey Bao

Dissertation: Dynamic Capabilities and Resilient Organizations Amid Environmental Jolts , Stav Fainshmidt

Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of Direct Versus Indirect Comparative Advertising , Chun-Kai Hsu

Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective , Ryan Lawrence Mason

Dissertation: The Effect of Online Reviews on Attitude and Purchase Intention: How Consumers Respond to Mixed Reviews , Chatdanai Pongpatipat

Dissertation: Three Essays on the Enterprise Strategy for Multinational Firms , Veselina Plamenova Vracheva

Dissertation: The Antecedents and Effects of Strategic Caring: A Cross-National Empirical Study , Thomas Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages? , James Edward Benton

Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate , Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg

Dissertation: Three Essays on Immigrant Entrepreneurship , Kaveh Moghaddam

Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli , Denise Williams Streeter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Dissertation: An Examination of Middle Manager Innovation Behaviors and Institutional Factors Impact on Organizational Innovation in the USA and Mexico , J. Lee Brown III

Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing , Charles William Duval

Dissertation: Three Essays on Strategic Risk Taking , Krista Burrill Lewellyn

Dissertation: Two Essays on Executive Pay and Firm Performance , Thuong Quang Nguyen

Dissertation: A Study of Risk-Taking Behavior in Investment Banking , Elzotbek Rustambekov

Dissertation: A Study of Failures in the US Banking Industry , Joseph Trendowski

Dissertation: Two Essays on Behavioral Finance , Quang Viet Vu

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Dissertation: Three Essays on Individual Currency Traders , Boris Sebastian Abbey

Dissertation: Cross-listing Premium or Market Timing , Moustafa M. Abu El Fadl

Dissertation: Warranty and Price as Quality Signals: The effect of Signal Consistency and Unexpectedness on Product Perception , Sultan Alaswad Alenazi

Dissertation: The Behavior and Choices of Serial Bidders in M&A Transactions: A Prospect Theory Approach , Ahmed Essam El-Din El-Bakry

Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market , Ajay Kongera

Dissertation: Intercultural Accommodation of Ethnic Minority Consumers: An Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects in Service Encounters , Sarah Mady

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Born in the Saarland, a small state in the Southwest of Germany, I began my studies in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the Technical University Aachen in 1989. As one of about 800 students in lectures, that combined with other disciplines were even bigger, I sought the opposite of such crowds by also studying at a small engineering school in France. So in 1995, I graduated as Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures at the Ecole Centrale Paris and Diplom-Ingenieur at the RWTH Aachen, with one year spent in between at Imperial College London to write my diploma thesis on a topic in control theory. I then went on to study at MIT for graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Technology and Policy. This is where my focus shifted from Engineering towards Economics. Working at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich helped in this endeavor, and BCG was so kind as to sponsor my PhD at the Wharton School, after which I started as a faculty member in the Economics and Finance Group of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 2003. When the opportunity arose to come to EPFL in 2011, having spent more than a decade in the United States, I was eager to return to Europe, much closer to family and home. At EPFL, I have been working at the intersection of Operations, Economics and Strategy.

You’ve been at EPFL for close to 8 years, how has your vision of the institution evolved?

Upon my arrival at EPFL, I was immediately thrown into “institutional cold waters” by being entrusted with the directorship of the Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute (MTEI) at the College of Management (CDM). At the time, the CDM had only an interim director, so that I had to frequently interact directly with the presidency which was both interesting and challenging, and which sharpened my senses for demanding administrative questions. The evolution of EPFL as an institution continues to be astounding on its path to truly global leadership. I am curious to see EPFL evolve further and hope that the deep humanity and generosity of the place encouraging diversity in academic work stays very much intact over the coming years. As the current director of the doctoral program in Management of Technology (EDMT), I am fortunate to be able to interact with our next generation of researchers who truly are the backbone of our research at the CDM. Somewhat returning to my roots in Engineering, I am also interested to see the fruits of various transversal efforts come to bear, through designing a joint course with EPFL’s engineering school (STI), and furthermore, in the context of the EPFL-wide minor in Systems Engineering which I have been directing since last year.

You define yourself as a scientist at the intersection of operations, economics and strategy. What does that mean?

All three areas have to do with systems and the control thereof. At the lowest level, “operations” is about the optimization of a workflow or, more generally of selecting inputs to a system so that it behaves optimally in terms of maximizing some functional of its outputs. “Economics” is about the strategic interaction of such systems and the design of mechanisms that govern such games, which themselves can be viewed as systems. Finally, strategy has to do with finding rules so as to map recognizable states of nature to feasible actions. I have been interested in the interplay of these types of decision problems in the presence uncertainty for a long time, which leads to a rather diverse research agenda, ranging from optimization, via game theory, to the sharing economy and the environment.

What is your flagship research project and why is it important?

An interesting project I have been working on for over a decade is optimal credit collections, where the first step is to estimate a stochastic repayment process from observations about debtors’ repayment behavior from a variety of data sources. The second step consists in finding a collection strategy, as a mapping from the state of a distressed loan to actions, to maximize the expected return of an account portfolio. The problem is interesting for many reasons. It has the hierarchical features of operations, economics, and strategy explained before. There are also many fascinating technical challenges based on the underlying theory of self- and cross-exciting point processes, with insights from our research that may be applied in other settings, for example to understand leader-follower behavior in cryptocurrency markets. With the support of a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation we are investigating the problem from different angles, ranging from mathematical analysis, via analytics and machine learning, to regulatory implications. 

Can you describe your typical day during the semester and during semester break?

A typical day at EPFL would depend on whether it is a “teaching day” or a “research day.” On a teaching day, I would prepare the lecture, give the lecture, and usually hold office hours later in the afternoon, often with other meetings before and after, for example related to projects or master theses. On a research day, I would meet with people from my group, work on ideas and papers myself, and also engage in conversations with colleagues around the world. The semester break sees conference travel and more extended research, or the preparation of a new course. It is a necessary period of gathering some breathing room and new energy for the next semester.

Outside of research, do you have another passion/interest?

At EPFL, I have rediscovered a sport that I had already practiced in my youth for about 10 years: Judo. It is a very physical activity which for me provides the perfect counterbalance to the otherwise rather sedentary life as a researcher. Incidentally, the principle of judo, namely to maximize effect with a minimum of effort, is in spirit quite related to my research interests. Other than that I have also picked up the study of bass about 6 years ago at the Ecole de Jazz et de Musique Actuelle (EJMA) in Lausanne, which offers a stimulating environment to develop as a musician and to practice the art of playing with others.

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As of September 2010 all doctoral dissertations and masters theses are submitted to the  Proquest Dissertations & Theses database. Electronic copies of doctoral dissertations began to be available in 1997 while masters theses began to be available in September 2010. After a dissertation or thesis is submitted to Graduate Studies, it can take up to several months for it to appear in the database.

As of Spring Quarter 2021, theses and dissertations are also submitted to eScholarship .

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Dissertations and theses do not receive standard “subject” headings. Dissertation titles are required to be descriptive, so title word searches are often effective. Another strategy, applicable for dissertations only, is to search in Proquest’s Dissertations & Theses Database (limiting to UC Davis if desired), where one can search titles, abstracts, and subject descriptors.

Note: with our new catalog options, searching by dissertation subject heading is less used, but in case you need to know, UC Davis catalogs its theses and dissertations with a limited subject heading, constructed of the phrase Dissertations, Academic — University of California, Davis plus the name of the department in which the degree is granted, for example:

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The Dissertations & Theses database provides access to the complete full-text of all University of California dissertations in addition to UC Davis doctoral dissertations from the year 1997 forward. Free 24-page previews are available for most other university theses and dissertations listed in the database from 1997 forward. Access to the ProQuest database and full-text is limited to UC computer addresses.

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Virginia Tech has been a world leader in electronic theses and dissertation initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997, Virginia Tech was the first university to require electronic submission of theses and dissertations (ETDs). Ever since then, Virginia Tech graduate students have been able to prepare, submit, review, and publish their theses and dissertations online and to append digital media such as images, data, audio, and video.

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Thomas Weber is professor of history and international affairs as well as the founding director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also holds positions at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn and at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Holding a DPhil from the University of Oxford, Weber previously taught or held fellowships at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.

Weber’s expertise pertains to authoritarian populism and the threat it poses to democracy; inter- and intrastate conflict and conflict resolution since the nineteenth century; processes of politicization, radicalization, transformation, and regime change; the creation of resilient liberal values, norms, and institutions; and the impact of unresolved historical injustices on the twenty-first century.

His first book, Łódź Ghetto Album (a collection of photographs by Henryk Ross, for which he wrote the introduction), won a 2004 Golden Light Award and a 2005 Infinity Award. His next book, Our Friend “The Enemy,”  was a recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize. His third book, Hitler’s First War , received the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history, while Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi was an  El Mundo top-ten best seller and was short-listed for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. Weber also is the editor of a forthcoming book on the lessons for the twenty-first century of the death of democracy in 1933 Germany.

Thomas Weber serves as an analyst and op-ed contributor on contemporary international affairs and history for news outlets and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; a Senior Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.

A native of Breckerfeld in Westphalia, he earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford. He also has taught or has held fellowships at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.

His 1st book, Lodz Ghetto Album , won a Golden Light Award and an Infinity Award. His 2nd book, Our Friend “The Enemy” is the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book on European History. His 3rd book, Hitler's First War is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history. His next book, Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi   , a El Mundo Top 10 Best Seller, was shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He also is the editor of Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten .

He provides analysis on history and contemporary international affairs for news outlets & organizations in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

His online course on Hitler , examining his politicisation and radicalisation, and what his time in power can teach us about the nature of politics today, is open to enrollment from anywhere in the world.

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Hitler and the Nazi Party

“we are no germans’: liechtenstein’s national security strategy, hitler’s strategy, and the survival of the independence and sovereignty of liechtenstein, 1933-1945, lorena de vita. israelpolitik: german-israeli relations, 1949-69. manchester: manchester university press, 2020: review by thomas weber, university of aberdeen and hoover institution, stanford university.

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Hitler, the Constructivist

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Anarchy and the State of Nature in Donald Trump’s America and Adolf Hitler’s Germany’

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Germany in Crisis: Hitler’s Antisemitism as a Function of Existential Anxiety and a Quest for Sustainable Security

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Die Krise der Welt: 1933 und 2023

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Ralf Georg, Reuth, Hitler: Zentrale Aspekte seiner Gewaltherrschaft

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1933: 90 Jahre danach

Als die demokratie starb: die machtergreifung der nationalsozialisten – geschichte und gegenwart.

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Research Overview

The "biological pump" is the suite of processes by which marine organisms sequester carbon in the deep ocean, out of contact with the atmosphere.  It both drives and responds to global climate change on decadal to millennial timescales.  My research uses numerical models to understand various processes that control the strength of the biological pump and their sensitivity to environmental change: plankton ecology and physiology; cycling of growth-limiting nutrients; and the respiration of organic particles by diverse microbial communities in the ocean interior, especially in low-oxygen habitat.  My modeling work is always motivated and guided by observations, and I collaborate closely with observational oceanographers to interpret new and exploratory datasets.

My previous research has largely focused on the cycling of nitrogen, the primary limiting nutrient for phytoplankton communities throughout most of the global ocean.  I have explored the biological basis and geochemical consequences of diverse nitrogen stoichiometry among phytoplankton, and the feedbacks between nitrogen-fixing and denitrifying organisms that govern the productivity of the ocean as a whole.  Recently, I have expanded my research into two new areas.  First, I am interested in the cycling of trace metals (Fe, Zn, Cd) that serve as "micronutrients" and enzyme co-factors for phytoplankton.  The ongoing GEOTRACES program is revealing the oceanic distributions of these metals for the first time, and my modeling efforts are designed to provide new insights to the cycling rates and processes responsible.  Second, I am interested in the fate of organic carbon exported from the surface ocean.  By combining simple models with large datasets from Underwater Visual Profilers, I am to better understand the controls on organic particle sinking and respiration rates, and the depths at which carbon is sequestered.

Research Interests

• Ocean biogeochemical cycles, trace element oceanography, marine ecosystems and their response to climate change

Courses Offered (subject to change)

• EES  232/432:  Seminar in Ocean Biogeochemistry
• EES 233/433:  Marine Ecosystem and Carbon Cycle Modeling

Selected Publications

• Weber, T.S. , J. Cram, S. Leung, T. DeVries, C. Deutsch, ( in press ) Deep ocean nutrients imply large latitudinal gradients in particle transfer efficiency, Proceedings of the National Academ y of Science.
• Deutsch, C.D., W. Berelson, R. Thunnel, T.S. Weber , C. Tems, et al (2014), Centennial changes in North Pacific anoxia linked to tropical trade winds, Science ,  345 , p.665-668.
• Weber, T.S. , C. Deutsch (2014), Local vs. basin-scale limitation of marine nitrogen fixation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , 111 , p.8741-8746.
• Weber, T.S.  and C. Deutsch (2012), Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation, Nature , 489 , p.419-424.
• Deutsch, C. and T.S. Weber (2012), Nutrient ratios as a tracer and driver of ocean biogeochemistry, Annual Review of Marine Science 4 , p.113-141.
• Weber, T.S. and C. Deutsch (2010). Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography, Nature , 467 , p.550-554.

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Optimal Depth of Discharge for Electric Batteries with Robust Capacity-Shrinkage Estimator

Monopoly pricing with unknown demand, price discrimination with robust beliefs.

J. Han ;  T. A. Weber

Estimation of Self-Exciting Point Processes from Time-Censored Data

P. Schneider ;  T. A. Weber

Does Sharing Lead to Smarter Products? Managing Information Flows for Collective Servitization

Relatively robust decisions, optimal matching of random parts, special section: reevaluating markets for information.

R. J. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Optimal recovery of unsecured debt via interpretable reinforcement learning

M. Mark ;  N. Chehrazi ;  H. Liu ;  T. A. Weber

Self-Exciting Point Processes: Identification and Control

M. Mark / T. A. Weber (Dir.)

Quantifying Endogeneity of Cryptocurrency Markets

M. Mark ;  J. Sila ;  T. A. Weber

Special Section: Improving New Digital Market Mechanisms

Minimum-error classes for matching parts, robust identification of controlled hawkes processes.

M. Mark ;  T. A. Weber

Nonlinear Pricing of Shareable Products

How to market smart products: design and pricing for sharing markets, introduction to the minitrack on strategy, information, technology, economics, and society (sites), special section: the economics of sharing and information security.

R. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Planning Supply with 'Opportunity Goods' : Complementing Premium Parts with Select Discount Components

Quantifying commitment in nash equilibria, dynamic credit-collections optimization.

N. Chehrazi ;  P. W. Glynn ;  T. A. Weber

The Advent of the Sharing Culture and its Effect on Product Pricing

M. Razeghian ;  T. A. Weber

Strategic Durability with Sharing Markets

M. Razeghian Jahromi ;  T. A. Weber

Special Section: Social Influence and Networked Business Interaction

Dynamic learning in markets: pricing, advertising, and information acquisition, optimal information collection policies in a markov decision process framework.

L. E. Cipriano ;  J. D. Goldhaber-Fiebert ;  S. Liu ;  T. A. Weber

The Dynamics of Asset Sharing and Private Use

Special section: the digital transformation of vertical organizational relationships, a linear-quadratic gaussian approach to dynamic information acquisition.

T. A. Weber ;  V. A. Nguyen

Population-Level Intervention and Information Collection in Dynamic Healthcare Policy

L. E. Cipriano ;  T. A. Weber

R. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber ;  E. Clemons ;  R. Dewan

Grid Connection of Shared Electric Vehicles

A. Nursimulu ;  T. A. Weber

Smart Products for Sharing

Optimal switching between cash-flow streams, understanding the information-based transformation of strategy and society.

E. K. Clemons ;  R. M. Dewan ;  R. J. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Global Optimization on an Interval

Controlling and pricing shareability, introduction to strategy, information, technology, economics, and society (sites) minitrack.

E. Clemons ;  R. Dewan ;  R. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Special Section: Technological Innovations for Communication and Collaboration in Social Spaces

The economics of sharing markets.

M. Razeghian Jahromi / T. A. Weber (Dir.)

Optimal Multiattribute Screening

The impact of sharing markets on product durability, optimal multiattribute sreening, a robust resolution of newcomb's paradox, special section: when machine meets society: social impacts of information and information economics, optimal retail in a sharing economy, product pricing in a peer-to-peer economy, introduction to minitrack on society, information, technology and economics, dynamic information acquisition, to share or not to share: adjustment dynamics in sharing markets, dynamic valuation of delinquent credit-card accounts.

N. Chehrazi ;  T. A. Weber

The Question of Ownership in a Sharing Economy

Dynamic valuation of delinquent credit card accounts, special section: online social connections: efficiency versus regulation, introduction to society, information, technology, and economics minitrack.

E. K. Clemons ;  R. J. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Optimal Commitment

Special section: it-enabled social and economic transitions, intermediation in a sharing economy: insurance, moral hazard, and rent extraction, a continuum of commitment, collaborative housing and the intermediation of moral hazard, optimal information acquisition policies: application to hepatitis c screening.

L. E. Cipriano ;  S. Liu ;  T. A. Weber ;  J. D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Introduction to Information Economics, Competition, Regulation, Law, and Society Minitrack

On the (non-)equivalence of irr and npv, applied information economics, introduction to competitive strategy, economics, and is minitrack, information economics and competitive strategy.

E. K. Clemons ;  K. H. Goh ;  R. J. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

Price Theory in Economics

T. A. Weber ;  N. Chehrazi

Special Section: Information and Competitive Strategy in a Networked Economy

R. J. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber ;  D. J. Wu

Introduction to the Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS Minitrack

E. Clemons ;  R. Kauffman ;  T. A. Weber

An Augmented Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism for Transaction Cycles

Optimal control theory with applications in economics, minitrack introduction: competitive strategy, economics and is, special section: information and technology: understanding new strategies for firms, networks, and markets, additive envelopes of continuous functions.

B. H. Strulovici ;  T. A. Weber

Monotone Approximation of Decision Problems

Hicksian welfare measures and the normative endowment effect, special section: competitive strategy, economics, and information systems, special section: economics of electronic commerce, option contracting in the california water market.

T. A. Weber ;  C. D. Tomkins

Carbon Markets and Technological Innovation

T. A. Weber ;  K. Neuhoff

Generalized Monotonicity Analysis

Simple methods for evaluating and comparing binary experiments, special section: strategy, economics and electronic commerce.

E. Clemons ;  R. Kauffman ;  J. Tsai ;  T. A. Weber

T. A. Weber ;  E. K. Clemons ;  R. J. Kauffman

Fair Welfare Maximization

T. A. Weber ;  A. Goel ;  A. Meyerson

Option Contracts in Practice: A Look at Contractual and Institutional Design in the Context of California Water Transfers

Managing water supply uncertainty: option contracts and short-term water transfers in california.

T. A. Weber ;  D. Freyberg ;  J. Sweeney ;  B. Thompson ;  C. D. Tomkins

Option Contracts in Practice: A Look at Contractual and Institutional Design for California Water Transfers

Delayed multiattribute product differentiation, bayesian incentive compatible parametrization of mechanisms.

T. A. Weber ;  A. Bapna

Monotone Comparative Statics: Geometric Approach

T. A. Weber ;  B. H. Strulovici

Efficient Contract Design in Multi-Principal Multi-Agent Supply Chains

A model of search intermediaries and paid referrals.

T. A. Weber ;  E. Z. Zhiqiang

An Infinite-Horizon Maximum Principle with Bounds on the Adjoint Variable

Infinite-horizon optimal advertising in a market for durable goods, selling less information for more: garbling with benefits.

T. A. Weber ;  D. C. Croson

The Endogenous Value of Information”

T. A. Weber / P. Kleindorfer (Dir.)

An Exact Relation Between Willingness To Pay and Willingness To Accept

The value of shared information services, mixed versioning of information goods under incomplete information, information technology planning framework for large-scale civil infrastructure projects.

T. A. Weber ;  F. Peña-Mora ;  S. Vadhavkar ;  E. Perkins

Constrained predictive control for corporate policy

T. A. Weber / A. Megretski (Dir.)

New Model Predictive Control Techniques for Stabilizing Systems under Constraints

T. A. Weber / R. B. Vinter (Dir.)

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Thomas Weber

Thomas Weber is a Professor of History and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He holds a D.Phil. in History from Oxford University.

During his second year as a Visiting Scholar CES, Weber will work on his book, provisionally titled, Metamorphosis: Adolf Hitler and Munich 1919. He will also work on a proposal advocating the establishment of Truth Commissions in Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

Weber’s books have won multiple awards and received wide international recognition. His first book, Lodz Ghetto Album, won a Golden Light Award in 2004 and an Infinity Award in 2005. His second book, Our Friend “The Enemy” was the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book of a general nature on the history and culture of the European continent. His latest book, Hitler's First War, published by Oxford University Press, has been translated into multiple languages. At present, TeamWorx and Beta Film are adapting the book into an eight-hour TV mini-series.

This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen
• Director, Center for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen

In the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Thomas Weber comments that the new Greek government's anti-semitic stance is being overlooked.

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• Electic Field Controlled Collisions of Trapped Polyatomic Molecules                                                                                  Manuel Koller, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Erbium dopants in silicon nanophotonic waveguides                                                                                                        Lorenz Weiß, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Quantum Communication with a Two-Atoms Network Node                                                                                               Stefan Langenfeld, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Ein Photon-Photon-Quantengatter basierend auf Rydberg-Rydberg-Wechselwirkung                                                     Steffen Schmidt-Eberle, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Single-Photon Distillation and Nonlocal Quantum-Logic Gate                                                                                                 Severin Daiß, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Nondestructive detection of photonic qubits with single atoms in crossed fiber cavities                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dominik Niemietz, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Enhancing the Emission and Coherence of Erbium Dopants                                                                                  Benjamin Merkel, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Long-lived and Efficient Qubit Memory for Photonic Quantum Networks                                                                      Matthias Körber, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Cold, Dense, and Slow Samples of Polyatomic Molecules for Collision Experiments                                                     Thomas Gantner, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Atomic Cycles in Cavity QED                                                                                                                                                   Nicolas Tolazzi, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Quantenbits in Ensembles ultrakalter Rydberg-Atome                                                                                                      Daniel Tiarks, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Photon-Mediated Quantum Information Processing with Neutral Atoms in an Optical Cavity                                  Stephan Welte, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Two-Photon Gate and Creation of Optical Cat States using One Atom in a Cavity                                                         Bastian Hacker, PhD Thesis, TU München
• An Ultracold Gas of Electrically Trapped Formaldehyde                                                                                             Alexander Prehn, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Atomic antiresonance and parametric feedback in a strongly coupled atom-cavity quantum system               Christian Sames, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Interacting Photons in a Strongly Coupled Atom-Cavity System                                                                                     Christoph Hamsen, Phd Thesis, TU München
• Optical microcavities for quantum communication with single atoms                                                                       Manuel Uphoff, PhD Thesis, TU München
• A Centrifuge Decelerator and a Thermometer for Cold Polar Molecules                                                                       Xing Wu, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Resonance Fluorescence of an Atom Pair in an Optical Resonator                                                                            Andreas Neuzner, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Rotational-state cooling and detection of trapped CH 3 F molecules                                                                                  Rosa Glöckner, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Photon Blockade with Memory and Slow Light using a Single Atom in an Optical Cavity                                       Haytham Chibani, PhD Thesis, TU München
• A Single-Photon Switch and Transistor based on Rydberg Blockade                                                                                 Simon Baur, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Remote Entanglement of Two Single Atoms                                                                                                                     Carolin Hahn, PhD Thesis, TU München
• A controlled phase gate between a single atom and an optical photon                                                                    Andreas Reiserer, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Sisyphus-Kühlung von polyatomaren Molekülen                                                                                                               Barbara Englert, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Electric Trapping and Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules                                                                                                Martin Zeppenfeld, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Quantum state transfer between remote single atoms                                                                                             Christian Nölleke, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Ein kohärentes Logikgatter für Lichtpulse basierend auf atomarer Vierwellenmischung in einem Bose-Einstein-Kondensat                                                                                                                                                                                          Christoph Vo, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Construction and Operation of a Cryogenic Source for Cold Polar Molecules                                                       Christian Sommer, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Elektromagnetisch induzierte Transparenz mit einem einzelnen Atom                                                                        Martin Mücke, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Ein Bose-Einstein-Kondensat als Quantenspeicher für Zwei-Teilchen-Verschränkung                                       Matthias Lettner, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Classical and Quantum Dynamics of a Strongly Coupled Atom-Cavity System                                                               Markus Koch, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Einzelatom-Quantenspeicher für Polarisations-Qubits                                                                                                    Holger Specht, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Two-photon gateway and feedback control of a single atom in a cavity                                                                     Alexander Kubanek, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Coherent dynamics and state detection of single atoms in a cavity                                                                                Jörg Bochmann, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Cold guided beams of polar molecules                                                                                                                           Michael Motsch, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Optical Control of a Magnetic Feshbach Resonance                                                                                                     Dominik Bauer, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Distribution of Quantum Information between an Atom and Two Photons                                                                Bernhard Weber, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Nonlinear spectroscopy of a single-atom-cavity system                                                                                                  Ingrid Schuster, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Quantum Interface between an Atom and a Photon                                                                                                     Tatjana Wilk, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Interacting Feshbach Molecules                                                                                                                                                Niels Syassen, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Elektrisches Speichern neutraler Atome und Moleküle                                                                                               Thomas Rieger, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Trapping and observing single atoms in the dark                                                                                                          Thomas A. Puppe, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Single photons from a single atom trapped in a high-finesse optical cavity                                                              Markus Hijlkema, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Ultracold Rubidium Molecules                                                                                                                                        Thomas Volz, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Kühlen und Positionieren eines Atoms in einem optischen Resonator                                                                         Stefan Nußmann, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Guiding and Trapping of Cold Dipolar Molecules                                                                                                              Tobias Junglen, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Zeitaufgelöste Zwei-Photonen Interferenz                                                                                                                      Thomas Legero, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Cavity Cooling and Spectroscopy of a Bound Atom-Cavity System                                                                              Peter Maunz, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Feshbach-Resonanzen bei Stößen ultrakalter Rubidiumatome                                                                                   Andreas Marte, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Kontrollierte Erzeugung einzelner Photonen in einem optischen Resonator hoher Finesse                                   Markus Hennrich, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Controlling the motion of an atom in an optical cavity                                                                                               Thomas Fischer, PhD Thesis, TU München
• Stoßlawinen in einem Bose-Einstein-Kondensat                                                                                                      Johannes Schuster, PhD Thesis, Uni Konstanz