PhD Research
The results of PhD research at Utrecht University are available through the portal NARCIS. On this page all theses of PhD candidates of U.S.E. are listed.
2022
Thomas Gomez: The roles of uncertainty and beliefs in the economy.
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.
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 Consequenses
- 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 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.
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.
- 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.