Dissertaties

De resultaten van promotieonderzoeken aan de Universiteit Utrecht zijn beschikbaar via de portal OpenAIRE. Op deze pagina vindt u een overzicht van alle dissertaties van promovendi van U.S.E.

2025

Anaya Dam, Essays in Development Economics: Gender Norms, Decision Making, and Outcomes.
Sanjay Drigpal, A Cost of Capital Theory of Crisis.
Simon Toussaint, Accounting for Wealth Concentration.
Ruben Nicolas, Sustainable Public Procurement: A Multidisciplinary Analysis.
Diogo Leitao Requena, How and Why Organizations Litigate: Empirical Evidence from Dutch Commercial Court Cases.
Oussama El Moujahid, Beneath the Surface of the Corporation: Board Diversity, Firm Ownership, Firm Technology, and Corporate Risk Management.

2024

Emiel van Bezooijen, Essays on Income Inequality. The Role of Institutions, Firms and Neighborhoods.
Milande Busquet, Social Entrepreneurship in the cocoa industry in West-Africa. A human-centered perspective on labor issues.
Margot Leger, Enabling Entrepreneurship: Support Intermediaries and Social Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Jip Leendertse, Ecosystems for Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
Xing Li, Institutions and Social Entrepreneurship: A Multilevel Perspective.
Mirella Schrijvers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Measurement, Mechanisms and outcomes.

2023

Sebastiaan Tieleman: Validation: A Window into Economic Practice. A Study in the Practice of Macroeconomic Modeling.
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

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

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.