UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Does Engagement in Energy and Utility Companies Drive a Sustainable Transition More Effectively Than Divestment?
(2025)This study investigates the comparative effectiveness of shareholder engagement and divestment in driving real-world environmental change within the global energy and utilities sectors, with a primary focus on carbon ... -
Investing Early: The Effects of Dutch Childcare Subsidies on ECEC Intensity and Child Development
(2025)This thesis investigates whether early-life financial incentives, in the form of childcare subsidy generosity at 5 months, influence the intensity of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) use and child development ... -
How Does the Shift from 2D to 3D Data Visualization Shape Managerial Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Cross-Border and Domestic Acquisitions?
(2025)Thesis Summary – The Impact of 3D Data Visualization on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in M&A Due Diligence This thesis explores how transitioning from traditional 2D financial reports to immersive 3D data visualization ... -
Urban versus Rural Labor Patterns - A Gendered Moderation Tobit model of Hours Worked
(2025)This study investigates the relationship between the degree of urbanisation and the amount of time spent on paid work, with a specific focus on the moderating role of gender. This study uses data from the Dutch Liss Panel ... -
Adapting the Stakeholder Value Creation Framework in the Context of Urban Trees and Forests: How do corporate actors create and capture value?
(2025)This thesis examines how corporate actors create and capture value in the context of urban trees and forests, addressing the persistent gap in private sector investment in nature-based solutions (NBS) despite the well-documented ... -
What is the Effect of a Paternity Quota in Paternal Leave on Job Satisfaction? The Effect of the Daddy Months of 2007 “Elterngeld” Reform on Job Satisfaction of German Parents using SOEP data
(2025)This thesis investigates the effect of a paternity quota on job satisfaction. The effect is examined through an event study using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) comparing the job satisfaction of first-time parents ... -
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Green Bond Illiquidity: Challenges to Market Functions and Policy Perspective
(2025)This thesis investigates the impact of climate policy uncertainty on the liquidity of the U.S. green bond market. Using the Climate Policy Uncertainty (CPU) Index developed by Gavriilidis (2021), I employ a fixed-effects ... -
Professionalizing Small-Medium Enterprises: The Role of Management Practices in Small-Medium Enterprises
(2025)The aim of the study is to examine the effects of specific firm characteristics on management practices. The firm characteristics are determined as size, age, CEO replacement, and strategic orientation adopted by the firm. ... -
The effect of host country political risk on capital expenditures of majority-owned foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational companies
(2025)This study examines the impact of the host country political risk on capital expenditures of majority-owned foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational companies from 2009 to 2022. Drawing on theories of international business ... -
Social Entrepreneurship and Institutions: A Cross-Country Analysis with Insights for Post- Socialist Societies
(2025)This thesis studies how institutional factors: property rights (proxied by constraints on executive power), government activism, and generalized trust, influence individuals’ engagement in social entrepreneurship across ... -
Cannibalisation Effect of Renewable Energy Technology - Impact on Returns of Sustainable Investment Funds
(2025)This thesis examines cannibalization effects of renewable energy technologies on sustainable investment fund returns through an event study analysis of 75 European funds across 50 policy events in 2022–2024. Using CAPM-based ... -
Slimme AI-systemen, slimme keuzes?
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op arbeidsdeskundigen bij het UWV en onderzoekt in hoeverre ervaren autonomie invloed heeft op appropriate reliance op AI-systemen, en of deze relatie wordt gemedieerd door calibrated trust. Aan ... -
Understanding Subscription Behavior: Exploring Fatigue, Flexibility, and Cancellation in the Digital Economy
(2025)This thesis explores consumer behavior in the subscription economy, focusing on the phenomena of subscription fatigue, cancellation propensity, and the role of perceived flexibility and provider preference. The central ... -
Place-Based Industrial Policy in the Energy Transition: An Empirical Study on the Economic and Political Effects of the Just Transition Fund
(2025)This study investigates the economic and political impacts of the European Commission's Just Transition Fund (JTF), a policy designed to mitigate regressive distributional effects of climate policies and address spatial ... -
“To what extent are carbon and fossil fuel costs passed through to day- ahead electricity prices in the Netherlands in 2024?”
(2025)This thesis researches the extent to which carbon and fossil fuel costs are passed through to day-ahead electricity prices in the Netherlands during the year 2024, a pivotal period in the country’s energy transition. By ... -
Motivations for Fairtrade Purchases: Comparing Developed and Developing Nations using Means-End Chain Analysis
(2025)Fairtrade, an initiative designed to promote greater equity in international trade, aims to pursue global expansion. To support this growth, particularly through marketing strategies in both developed and developing ... -
The Unequal Burden: Socioeconomic and Housing Determinants of Energy Poverty in the Netherlands
(2025)This paper investigates the determinants of energy poverty in the Netherlands using a multidimensional approach, combining both subjective and objective indicators. It examines three key indicators of energy poverty: ... -
The Impact of Forced Versus Voluntary CEO Dismissals on Firm Innovation [Evidence from S&P 1500 Firms (2000-2018)]
(2025)This study examines the effects of CEO dismissals, with a particular focus on forced versus voluntary dismissals, on firm innovation. Using managerial myopia as the underlying mechanism, it claims that forced CEO ...