387 Master theses

• 27 - Predictability of Stock Return and Volatility: A Factor Based Approach

  Author: Cem Cakmakli

  Supervisor: Dick van Dijk

  Defense date: August 31, 2007

• 26 - Oligopolistic competition in price and quality

  Author: Andrey Dubovik

  Supervisor: Maarten Janssen

  Defense date: August 31, 2007

• 25 - Conspicuous Consumption and the Strength of Social Ties

  Author: Nick Vikander

  Supervisor: Maarten Janssen

  Defense date: August 31, 2007

• 24 - Predicting Cross-Sections of Conditional Default Probabilities Using Common Factors from Macro Data and Unobserved Components in a Non-Gaussian Panel Data Framework

  Author: Bernd Schwaab

  Supervisor: Andre Lucas

  Defense date: August 31, 2007

• 23 - The Effectiveness of Community Based Education in Africa: the Case of Zambia

  Author: Kobus de Hoop

  Supervisor: Jan Willem Gunning

  Defense date: August 24, 2007

• 22 - Sovereign Finance, an Enquiry into Contingent Debt

  Author: Mario Bersem

  Supervisor: Casper de Vries

  Defense date: February 27, 2007

• 21 - Cartel Stability Under Different Consumer Search Intensity

  Author: Aufa Doarest

  Supervisor: Jeroen Hinloopen

  Defense date: February 28, 2007

• 20 - The Political Economy of Bail Outs

  Author: Marcel Vorage

  Supervisor: Enrico Perotti

  Defense date: November 15, 2006

• 19 - Stable Limit Cycles and Complex Behaviour in Smoothed Best Response Dynamics

  Author: Marius-Ionut Ochea

  Supervisor: Cars Hommes

  Defense date: August 31, 2006

• 18 - Assessing the Risk Exposure of Private Equity Funds

  Author: Tse-Chun Lin

  Supervisors: Joost Driessen, Ludovico Phalippou

  Defense date: August 31, 2006

• 17 - Impact of Early Conditions in Life: A Study of Marriage and Mortality

  Author: Sumedha Gupta

  Supervisor: Gerard van den Berg

  Defense date: August 31, 2006

• 16 - Investigating uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts by stochastic simulation

  Author: Debby Lanser

  Supervisor: Philip Hans Franses

  Defense date: August 24, 2006

• 15 - A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care in Ireland

  Author: Jonneke Bolhaar

  Supervisors: Bas van der Klaauw, Maarten Lindeboom

  Defense date: August 31, 2006

• 14 - Joint Dominance in the Market for Mobile Telecommunications in Ukraine

  Author: Yevgeniy Stotyka

  Supervisor: Jeroen Hinloopen

  Defense date: May 29, 2006

• 13 - Risk Characteristics of Pension Systems

  Author: Jiajia Cui

  Supervisor: F.C.J.M. de Jong

  Defense date: February 28, 2006

• 12 - Heterogeneous Productivity in CGE Monopolistic Competition Models of Trade. Why? Which Model?

  Author: Eddy Bekkers

  Supervisor: Joseph Francois

  Defense date: February 27, 2006

• 11 - A Procedural Extension of the Fehr-Schmidt Model of Inequality Aversion

  Author: Stefan Trautmann

  Supervisor: Peter Wakker

  Defense date: January 27, 2006

• 10 - Strategic Investment and Information Revelation as an Entry Deterrence Tool

  Author: Stefka Petrova

  Supervisor: Gerard van der Laan

  Defense date: December 13, 2005

• 9 - Investment, Risk and Weather Insurance in Rural India: An Estimation of a Structural Model

  Author: Lei Pan

  Supervisors: Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning

  Defense date: October 11, 2005

• 8 - A Conditional Mean - Lower Partial Moment CAPM with Evidence from the Cross Section of Expected Equity Returns

  Author: Valeriu Trufas

  Supervisor: Thierry Post

  Defense date: September 29, 2005