UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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What are the key bootstrapping practices employed by digital-first businesses?
(2025)This thesis explores the key bootstrapping practices employed by online, digital-first businesses operating without external funding. The central research question guiding this study is: “What are the key bootstrapping ... -
The Effectiveness of Contracts-for-Difference (CfDs) in Promoting Renewable Energy Investments in the EU Electricity Market: A Comparative Analysis between the Netherlands and Greece
(2025)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of Contracts-for-Difference (CfDs) as a policy instrument to support renewable energy investment and manage price risk in the EU electricity market. Using a comparative analysis ... -
Founder Equity Ownership Differences and Their Effect on Startup Financial Performance
(2025)Empirical research has highlighted the relationship between the decision to split equity equally among startup founders and subsequent financial and team dynamics. However, less is known about how the magnitude of equity ... -
U.S. Election Impact on Environmentally Material Sectors: A Study of Market Responses in Energy, Utilities, Non-Energy Materials, and Industrials
(2025)This thesis examines how the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 influenced stock market valuations in the U.S. energy, utilities, materials, and industrial sectors, focusing on firms classified as either “green” or “brown” ... -
Beans with Benefits: A Price and Cost Analysis of Certified Coffee in the Dutch Retail Market
(2025)This thesis investigates the extent to which sustainability certifications in the Dutch coffee retail market reflect actual compliance costs. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of 182 whole-bean coffee products, it focuses ... -
From Equality to Profitability: The Impact of Belgium’s Board Gender Quota on Female Representation and Firm Performance
(2025)This paper analysed Belgium’s mandatory gender quota for corporate boards and how this affected female representation and firm profitability in the short- and long-term. The study partially follows the methodological ... -
Agro-Industrial Transformation: Understanding the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Agrifood Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean.
(2025)This paper analyzes the quality of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs), the structural robustness of agro-industrial regimes, and the emergence of agrifood start ups in the Mediterranean NUTS-2 regions in the European ... -
Analyzing Africa: investigating innovative ways to measure Entrepreneurial Culture. A study in the national context of Africa
(2025)Scholars acknowledge Entrepreneurial Culture as one of the key drivers for the overall quality of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) represents the first successful effort to ... -
The impact of sport sponsorship on luxury brand perception: A comparison of traditional and new luxury trough a cultural lens.
(2025)The thesis explores how luxury brand sponsorship in sports influences brand perception, with a focus on the distinction between traditional (heritage-based, exclusive) and new (accessible, visibility-driven) forms of luxury. ... -
Executive compensation as a predictor of future ESG performance
(2025)This thesis examines whether traditional long-term-oriented executive compensation structures, particularly equity-based pay (option awards and stock awards), can serve as predictors of futureenvironmental, social, and ... -
The influence of seaweed cultivation on local hydrodynamics: a case study in Bantry Bay, Ireland
(2025)Seaweed cultivation is a globally emerging sector and is expected to show large growth in the coming decades as a sustainable marine resource. However, the influences of seaweed cultivation on local hydrodynamics and with ... -
Assessing the Explanatory Power of Investor Sentiment on Volatility
(2025)This paper investigates the extent to which firm‐level investor sentiment, as measured by EWMA‐smoothed FinBERT scores, can explain subsequent movements in both realized and implied volatility. We construct asymmetric ... -
Do Geopolitical Risk and Carbon Market Uncertainty Interact to Influence Volatility in Renewable Energy Stocks?
(2025)This Thesis investigates the interactive influence of geopolitical risk (GPR) and carbon price uncertainty (CPU) on the volatility of renewable energy stocks by employing GARCH-X and GARCH-MIDAS models on data from 2017 ... -
Unequal Transitions: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Equity of the ISDE Retrofit Subsidy
(2025)This thesis investigates the effectiveness and equity of the Dutch ISDE subsidy scheme, which supports energy retrofits in the residential sector. The research focuses on insulation subsidies and evaluates whether they ... -
Signaling Mechanisms and Regulatory Impacts on the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings by European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(2025)This study investigates the determinants of IPO underpricing for European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), analyzing signaling mechanisms and the impact of the EU Prospectus Regulation (2017/1129). Using 403 IPOs ... -
Circularity as a lever for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa? An exploration of business models for second-life lithium-ion batteries
(2025)The rapid growth in global demand for lithium-ion batteries, driven by electric mobility and renewable energy systems, raises concerns about resource depletion and environmental pollution resulting from improper disposal. ... -
AI-Generated Content and the Pollution of the Information Sphere: A Freedom of Expression Analysis under Article 10 ECHR
(2025)This thesis analyses whether and to what extent AI-generated content is protected by freedom of expression and information under Article 10 §1 ECHR, and under what conditions state interferences can be justified to protect ... -
Examining the capabilities of SWOT to derive the tidal characteristics in the North Sea
(2025)The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite provides a promising new method to measure the global sea surface height (SSH). With the use of radar interferometry, it is possible to improve the spatial resolution ... -
What is the human centred impact of Large Language Models on Startup Employee Wellbeing?
(2025)Artificial Intelligence (A.I) has been regarded as one of the most important inventions in modern time. One subset technology that has gained attention in recent years are Large Language Models (LLMs). This is because they ...