PhD Programmes

At Utrecht University School of Economics (USE), our Research Master (RM) students normally fill in the vacant PhD positions.

Becoming a PhD student at USE without being one of our RM students is possible:
- when a vacancy is posted on the UU site.
- when you bring your own funds and you can find a supervisor within USE. In this case, you can apply throughout the year. Please send your CV, diplomas (and if possible references) and research proposal to Ms Mariska van Dort (J.M.vanDort@uu.nl).

Information on the PhD council of LEG you can find here. (In Dutch) 

PhD theses of USE

2013

• Saraï Sapulete: Works Council Effectiveness: Determinants and Outcomes.  
• Kasia Karpinska:  Prolonged employment of older workers. Determinants of managers' decisions regarding hiring, retention and training.
• Wieteke Conen: Older workers: the view of Dutch employers in a European perspective
• Federico D'Onofrio: Knowing to Transform: Three ways for agricultural economists to observe Italy 1900-1940
• Ilse Matser:  Strategic Resources & Family Firm Performance

2012

• Joras Ferwerda: The Multidisciplinairy Economics of Money laundering.  
• Martijn Boermans: International Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development. 
• Filipa Figueira: How to Reform the EU Budget? A Multidisciplinary Approach.
• Thomas van Huizen: Behavioural assumptions in labour economics: Analysing social security reforms and labour market transitions

2011

• Ryan van Lamoen: The relationship between competition and innovation: measuring innovation and causality.
• Martijn Dröes: House Price Uncertainty in the Dutch Owner-Occupied Housing Market.
• Yi Zhang: Institutions and International Investments: Evidence from China and Other Emerging Markets.
• Babette Pouwels: Work, family, and happiness. Essays on interdependencies within families, life events, and time allocation decisions. Abstract

2010

• Bastian Westbrock: Inter-firm networks: economic and sociological perspectives.
• Menno Middeldorp: Central bank communication and the predictability of monetary policy in the financial markets - Theoretical, experimental and empirical evidence. Abstract
• Mariëlle Cloin: Arbeidsdeelname van laagopgeleide vrouwen en de rol van combinatie faciliteiten. 
• Joppe de Ree: Four studies of economic behavior: integrating revealed and stated preferences data. Abstract
• Thomas Dirkmaat: Checking and temporal embeddedness in indefinitely and finitely repeated asymmetric trust games. Abstract
• Hannah Kiiver: Schooling in Germany: Structural Deficiencies. Abstract

2009

• Gerard Marlet: De aantrekkelijke stad. 
• Michiel van Leuvensteijn: Measuring competition in financial markets.
• Anne van Putten: The role of intergenerational transfers in gendered labour patterns. Abstract
• Arjen van der Born: The drivers of career success of the job-hopping professional in the new networked economy : The challenges of being an entrepreneur and an employee. Abstract
• Les Graham: Is employee personality more important than perceived leadership for the development of burnout and efficacy? Abstract
• Maarten van Rooij: Financial literacy, retirement provisions and household portfolio behavior: four empirical contributions
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2008

• Maarten Bosker: The empirical relevance of geographical economics
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• Methodij Hadzi-Vaskov: International risk-sharing: macroeconomic and financial aspects. Abstract
• Mitja Kovac: Comparative Contract Law & Economics. Abstract

2007

• Yariv Ilan: Competition law and high-tech markets: conventional antitrust thinking revisited. Abstact
• Ivy Koopmans: De beheersing en verdeling van het zorgrisico. Modernisering van de sociale zekerheid 1987-2007. Abstract
• Jordan Otten: Origins of executive pay & corporate governance reform codes : Essays on an institutional approach to corporate governance. Abstract

2006

• Christine Baaijens: Arbeidsatijden tussen wens en werkelijkheid
• Ralph de Haas: Multinational Banks and credit growth in transition economics. Abstract
• Carlien Hillebrink: Flexible benefit plans in Dutch organisations. Abstract
• Peter Földvári: The Economic Impact of the European Integration on the Netherlands. A Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investments. Abstract
• Hein Roelfsema: The political economics of policy centralization. Abstract
• Amelia Roman: Deviating from the standard: effects on labor continuity and career patterns. Abstract

2005

• Carolien Klein Haarhuis: Promoting anti-corruption reforms. Evaluating the implementation of a World Bank anti-corruption program in seven African countries (1999-2001). Abstract
• Michael Kötter: Efficiency and mergers in German banking

2004

• Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe: An economic analysis of employment law.

2003

• Johan den Hertog: Public and private interests in regulation: essays in the law and economics of regulation. Abstract