PhD Research

The results of PhD research at Utrecht University are available through the portal OpenAIRE. On this page, all theses of PhD candidates of U.S.E. are listed.

2023

• Max Mulhuijzen: The unexpected sources of innovation.
• Jesse Groenewegen: Management Practices and Firm Adaptiveness during an External Shock: the Case of COVID-19.
• Ronja Röttger: Worker adjustment in the digital age.
• Merve Burnazoglu: Inequalities Beyond the Average Man: The Political Economy of Identity-Based Stratification Mechanisms in Markets and Policy.
• Bora Lancee: The role of attention and information for behavioral change.

2022

• Thomas Gomez: The roles of uncertainty and beliefs in the economy. 
• Ans Merens:  Een lange weg. De ondervertegenwoordiging van vrouwen in management en top nader verklaard (A long way. The underrepresentation of women in management and at the top explained).
• Peter D. van der Meer: Job insecurity and mental health. Essays on the effect of job insecurity on mental health and the moderating effect of religiousness and psychological factors.
• Vincent Schippers: The local economic impacts of natural disasters: a view from outer space. 
• Wanxiang Cai: Social capital and crowdfunding: a multilevel perspective. 
• Lucia Rossel Flores: A multidisciplinary analysis of tax reform: from politics to human behavior. 
• Timo Verlaat: Carrot and Stick. Experiments with Social Welfare Policies. 

2021

• Peter Gerbrands: Tax Dynamics and Money Laundering. Simulating Policy Reforms in a Complex System. 
• Katharina Weddige-Haaf: Real and Financial Asymmetries in the Euro Area. 

2020

• Jingyan Liu: Money and credit dynamics in the euro area. 
• An Duong: Financial integration, trade, and productivity. 
• Dea Tusha: FDI spillovers in developing countries: channels, conditions, challenges. 

2019

• Jordy Meekes: Local Labour Markets, Job Displacement And Agglomeration Economies.  
• Timur Pasch: Essays On The Design Of The Management Accounting System: Determinants, Components And Effects. 
• Jeroen Content: The role of relatedness and entrepreneurship in regional economic development.  
• Franziska Heinicke: Essays on self-image and preferences for honesty. 
• Rebean Al-Silefanee: Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development. The Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
• Markus Meinzer: Countering cross-border tax evasion and avoidance: An assessment of OECD policy design from 2008 to 2018.
• Zori Kambourova: Women’s Adverse Health Events and Labor Market Participation. 
• Tim van der Valk: Household finance in France and the Netherlands 1960-2000: An evolutionary approach.
• Milena Dinkova: Brace yourselves, Pension is coming: Consumption, financial literacy and tailored pension communication.  
• Lisa Dumhs: Finding the right job: school-to-work transitions of vocational students in the Netherlands. 

2018

• Ian Koetsier: Government debt: The economic consequences of natural disasters and pension funds' herding. 
• Werner Liebregts: Hidden entrepreneurship: Multilevel analyses of the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurial employee activity.
• Li Lin: Leadership across cultural contexts. 
• Ye Li: Hydrogen Infrastructure Decisions through a Real Option Lens.  

2017

• Joep Steegmans: House prices and household mobility in the Netherlands - Empirical analyses of financial characteristics of the household.
• Swantje Falcke: On the move: Analyzing immigration determinants and immigrant outcomes.
• Daan van der Linde: Democracies under rising inequality: New tests of the redistributive thesis.
• Krista Bruns: Emergence and Diffusion of Institutions and their Effect on Economic Growth

2016

• Joyce Delnoy Auctions with Competing Sellers and Behavioral Bidders
• Tahereh Rezaei Khavas Fairness concerns and cooperation in context
• Malka de Castro Campos Private Consumption-Savings Behavior and Macroeconomic Imbalances
• Jaap Oude Mulders Organizations, managers, and the employment of older workers after retirement

2015

• Seçil Danakol: Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Aid and Domestic Entrepreneurship
• Ioana Deleanu: Anti-Money Laundering Efforts: Failures, Fixes and the Future
• Vesili Kutlu-Koc: Essays on Subjective Survival Probabilities, Consumption, and Retirement Decisions.
• Brigitte Crooijmans: Leiden fusies tot efficiëntere woningcorporaties? Een exploratieve studie naar schaalvoordelen in de sociale huisvesting.
• Andrej Svorenčík: The Experimental Turn in Economics: a History of Experimental Economics.

2014

• Jasper Lukkezen: From Debt Crisis to Sovereign Risk.
• Emre Akgündüz: Analysing Maternal Labour Supply and Childcare Quality.
• Shiwei Hu: Development in China and Africa.
• Saara Tamminen:  Heterogeneous Firms, Markups and Income Inequality.
• Marcel van den Berg: Does Internationalization Foster Firm Performance?
• Dirk Gerritsen: The Relevance of Security Analyst Opinions for Investment Decisions
• Daniel Possenriede: The Economics of Temporal and Locational Flexibility of Work.
• Mark Kattenberg: The Economics of Social Housing: Implications for Welfare, Consumption, and Labor Market Composition
• Suzanne Heijnen: Analyses of Sickness Absence

2013

• Han-Hsin Chang: Heterogeneity in Development
• Mikko Pohjola: A Compilation of Studies on Innovation in Firms: Capabilities, Strategies, and Performance
• Matthias Filser:  Strategic Issues in Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research.
• Lu Zhang: Industrial Specialization: Determinants, Processes and Consequences
• Jan de Dreu: Empirical Essays on the Governance of Financial Institutions
• Beate Cesinger: Context and Complexity of International Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
• Coen Rigtering: Entrepreneurial Orientation: Mutilevel Analysis and Consequences
• Britta Hoyer: Network Formation under the Threat of Disruption
• 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 an European Perspective
• Federico D'Onofrio: Knowing to Transform: Three ways for agricultural economists to observe Italy 1900-1940
• Ilse Matser: Strategic Resources and Family Firm Performance

2012

• Joras Ferwerda: The Multidisciplinary 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.

2010

• Bastian Westbrock: Inter-firm networks: economic and sociological perspectives.
• Menno Middeldorp: Central bank transparency, private information and the predictability of monetary policy in the financial markets : theoretical, experimental and empirical evidence.
• 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.
• Thomas Dirkmaat: Checking and Temporal Embeddedness in Indefinitely and Finitely Repeated Asymmetric Trust Games.
• Hannah Kiiver: Schooling in Germany: Structural Deficiencies.

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.
• 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.
• Les Graham: Is Employee Personality More Important than Perceived Leadership for the Development of Burnout and Efficacy?
• Maarten van Rooij: Financial Literacy, Retirement Provisions and Household Portfolio Behavior: Four Empirical Contributions.

2008

• Maarten Bosker: The Empirical Relevance of Geographical Economics
• Methodij Hadzi-Vaskov: International Risk-Sharing: Macroeconomic and Financial Aspects.
• Mitja Kovac: Comparative Contract Law & Economics. 

2007

• Yariv Ilan: Competition Law and High-Tech Markets: Conventional Antitrust Thinking Revisited.
• Ivy Koopmans: De beheersing en verdeling van het zorgrisico. Modernisering van de sociale zekerheid 1987-2007.
• Jordan Otten: Origins of Executive Pay & Corporate Governance Reform Codes : Essays on an Institutional Approach to Corporate Governance.

2006

• Christine Baaijens: Arbeidstijden tussen wens en werkelijkheid
• Ralph de Haas: Multinational Banks and Credit Growth in Transition Economics.
• Carlien Hillebrink: Flexible Benefit Plans in Dutch Organisations.
• Peter Földvári: The Economic Impact of the European Integration on the Netherlands. A Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investments.
• Hein Roelfsema: The Political Economics of Policy Centralization.
• Amelia Roman: Deviating from the Standard: Effects on Labor Continuity and Career Patterns.

2005

• Carolien Klein Haarhuis: Promoting Anti-Corruption Reforms. Evaluating the Implementation of a World Bank Anti-Corruption Program in Seven African Countries (1999-2001). 
• Michael Kötter: Evaluating the German Bank Merger Wave.

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.