463 Master theses

• 450 - When the Lira Falls: Labor Market Implications of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

  Author: Melike Fenercigil

  Supervisors: Aksel Erbahar, Laura Hering

  Defense date: February 01, 2026

• 449 - Can Venture Capital Spur or Curb Killer Acquisitions?

  Author: Nanhui Xu

  Supervisors: Sebastian Gryglewicz, Shuo Zhao

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 448 - The Impact of Natural Disasters on Syndicated Lending: Evidence from Europe

  Author: Bei Wu

  Supervisor: Massimo Giuliodori

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 447 - Exclusion by design: the effects of limiting neighbourhood access on incumbent residents

  Author: Tommaso Tulkens

  Supervisors: Anne Gielen, Olivier Marie

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 446 - Stationary or non-stationary? An investigation on the initial conditions for panel maximum likelihood estimation.

  Author: Sander Tromp

  Supervisor: Arturas Juodis

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 445 - LABOR OF LOVE OR LABOR LOST? A Comparative Study of How lnstitutions Shape Gender lnequalities Within the Work-Care Conflict

  Author: Angela Thißen

  Supervisors: Klarita Gërxhani, Xander Koolman

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 444 - Corporate venture capital, the acquisition option and startups’ innovation direction

  Author: Martin Pečeňák

  Supervisors: Jolanda Hessels, Enrico Pennings, Ajay Bhaskarabhatla

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 443 - On Income Risks and College Premia

  Author: Cam M. Nghiêm

  Supervisors: Marcelo Zouain Pedroni, Ana Figueiredo

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 442 - Testing by Betting and Borrowing Revisited

  Author: Yonis Kulane

  Supervisor: Nick Koning

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 441 - Fast Online Robust Regression

  Author: Mathijs de Jong

  Supervisors: Bas van der Klaauw, Andreas Alfons

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 440 - Who Represents You? Expected Discrimination in Job Applications through Intersectional Identities

  Author: Elisabeth Mahilini Hoole

  Supervisors: Katharina Brütt, Klarita Gërxhani, Arthur Schram

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 439 - The More You Know, the Better You Do? Parties’ Optimal Strategy Under Policy and Norm Uncertainty

  Author: Patricia Himml

  Supervisor: Dana Sisak

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 438 - Educated Guesses: A Model of Educational Investments with Bounded Rational Parents

  Author: Niels van den Heuvel

  Supervisor: Florian Wagener

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 437 - Norms Rewritten? Parental Education and the Decline of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Nigeria

  Author: Tijmen Henkes

  Supervisors: Wendy Janssens, Menno Pradhan

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 436 - Optimal Taxation of Risk-taking under Heterogeneous Risk Preferences

  Author: Igo Dobbe

  Supervisor: Aart Gerritsen

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 435 - “Hey Neighbour, Nice Panels!”: Conditional MLE and GMME of spatiotemporal diffusion of photovoltaic systems

  Author: Dennis Cordes

  Supervisors: Cees Diks, Simon Trimborn

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 434 - Firm Optionality in Energy Markets: Theory and Illustrations

  Author: Daniel Christiano

  Supervisor: R. Huisman

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 433 - Leader Legitimacy in Social Dilemmas: How Do Different Ways of Appointing Leaders Shape Cooperation in Public Good Games?

  Author: Alessandro Capra

  Supervisors: Sander Onderstal, Jan-Willem Stoelhorst

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 432 - Kinds of Kindness: Consistency, Generosity, and Spitefulness in Intuitive Decisions

  Author: Federico Bassi

  Supervisors: Georg Granic, Matthijs van Veelen

  Defense date: August 31, 2025

• 431 - Designing Fair Ticket Markets: Eliciting Preferences Over Pricing Mechanisms

  Author: Gencay Işıl Başibüyük

  Supervisors: Theo Offerman, Andreas G. B. Ziegler

  Defense date: August 31, 2025