Theoretical work in the past decades has argued that the increasing concentration of ownership by institutional investors may lead to decreased competition between commonly owned companies, resulting in inefficient market ...

This master’s thesis builds upon a growing body of literature that analyses risk attitudes across different attributes by comparing risk attitudes between scenarios involving animals’ lives, human health, and human lives, ...

This study compares the causes of the diverge paths Greece and Ireland followed towards the completion of the EU-ECB-IMF programs. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on the headlines of two newspapers from each ...

Productivity growth is an understudied part of the macro-economic impact of employment protection legislation (EPL), which usually focuses on the impact on employment. This thesis studies the influence of EPL on productivity ...

This research studies the effect of tobacco taxation and size regulation of health warning labels of tobacco packages on tobacco consumption. Studies such as Chaloupka (1999) state that tobacco taxation is the most effective ...

In a time of increasing immigration and ethnic diversity, society is put under pressure. A recent report by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (2018) has shown that ethnic diversity is not only greater than ...

Owing to advances made in medicine and science, recent trends have shown an unprecedented increase in the average life expectancy of humans. The increased life longevity, compounded by inadequate financial planning and an ...

Literature distinguishes three major reasons for non-take-up of social benefits: (i) a lack of information, (ii) (perceived) complexity of application and (iii) psychological costs like stigma and (perceived) risks. This ...