- document
-
van der Maarel, Stefan (author)Traditional financial companies play a central role in ensuring financial stability and reliability. However, these companies face institutional problems due to inefficiencies, lack of transparency and limited innovation. For this reason, the use of distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, has been explored as an alternative and its...master thesis 2024
- document
-
Rutten, Jurriaan (author)This thesis presents a novel approach to the pricing of green bonds, a growing segment in financial markets with an emphasis on environmental sustainability. Unlike traditional financial instruments, green bonds uniquely incorporate environmental considerations, particularly carbon price (c_t), along with traditional factors like the short rate ...master thesis 2024
- document
-
Anwar-Hameed, Amir (author)Financial literacy is an essential component in design innovation projects, holding the potential to transform both the practice and education of design. The capacity to make effective financial decisions, encompassing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, is pivotal in the context of innovation (Warmath & Zimmerman, 2019). This capacity...master thesis 2023
- document
-
Noorlander, Stanley (author)<br/>master thesis 2023
- document
-
GANAPATHY SUBRAMANIAN SANKARAN, RISHAB (author)In the current environmental conditions, with the rise of sustainable finance concepts like Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG), firms in the financial sector have found new ways to drive sustainable change. Banks in particular play a key role in promoting sustainable practices both within their organization and also have a significant...master thesis 2023
- document
-
Lee, Maikel (author)This research investigates the potential impact of blockchain based start-up crowdfunding. The emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies paved the way for a more decentralized finance system which offers alternative funding opportunities for start-ups. The scope of the research is to analyze the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain based...master thesis 2023
- document
-
Husain Cornelissen, Adnan (author)Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are a novel type of market makers that eliminate the need for a coun-terparty in a trade. This thesis analyses the properties of several types of AMMs, and in particular the con-centrated liquidity market maker. An axiomatic definition of AMMs is provided, and two types of constant function market makers (CFMMs),...bachelor thesis 2023
- document
-
Muisers, Deanne (author)The Netherlands has been in a serious housing crisis for the past few years. The current housing shortage is estimated at 315.000 units and house prices have increased significantly. Especially first-time buyers experience a decrease in accessibility to the Dutch owner-occupied housing market, and their position on the housing market...master thesis 2023
- document
-
Bos, Thomas (author)This thesis serves as an attempt to establish the initial empirical linkage between environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and startup valuation by venture capitalists. While substantial academic work has addressed the ESG topic and how firms’ ESG characteristics impact their financial performance and valuations, relatively little...master thesis 2023
- document
-
Bodnar, Taras (author), Ivasiuk, Dmytro (author), Parolya, N. (author), Schmid, Wolfgang (author)In this paper, we derive an analytical solution to the dynamic optimal portfolio choice problem in the case of an investor equipped with a power utility function of wealth. The results are established by solving the Bellman backward recursion under the assumption that the vector of asset returns follows a vector-autoregressive process with...journal article 2023
- document
-
Kerstens, Andrea (author), Greco, A. (author)The realization of sustainable plus energy neighborhoods (SPENs) is key to achieving a carbon neutral built environment, and meeting the objectives of the green deal. Financial schemes have demonstrated effectiveness in driving the energy transition of individual buildings. However, the role of financial schemes in initiating the development of...journal article 2023
- document
-
Koreman, M.C.J. (author)Advantageous positions for politically overrepresented groups and rural political discontent are widely debated in academia. However, the role urban political overrepresentation may have in benefiting urban citizens and as an explanation for rural political discontent has hitherto received little attention. This paper addresses urban...journal article 2023
- document
-
Song, Yun (author), de Jong, Martin (author), Stead, D. (author), Liu, Z. (author)Xiong’an New Area is not only a newly emerging and nationally endorsed technopole, it is also regarded as a test-bed for novel forms of governance and financial management in China. Although it is currently only in its starting phase, Xiong’an demonstrates that various institutional features are very different from those found in traditional...journal article 2023
- document
-
Taylor, Zac (author), Knuth, Sarah E. (author)Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting crises of housing re/insurability and affordability in highly exposed sites like Florida. We consider an important but under-studied example of this ...journal article 2023
- document
-
Knuth, Sarah (author), Cox, Savannah (author), Zavareh Hofmann, Sahar (author), Morris, John (author), Taylor, Zac (author), McElvain, Beki (author)As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question...journal article 2023
- document
-
Langer, J.K.A. (author), Roosenboom-Kwee, Z. (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ashqar, Ziad (author), Quist, J.N. (author), Praktiknjo, Aaron (author), Blok, K. (author)Geospatial analysis is useful for mapping the potential of renewables like solar PV. However, recent studies do not address PV’s bankable potential for which project financing can be secured. This paper proposes a framework that incorporates project finance into geospatial analyses to obtain the bankable potential of renewables. We demonstrate...journal article 2023
- document
- Wever, Job (author) master thesis 2022
- document
-
Öhlschläger, Youri (author)Changing the way of power production on a Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO)<br/>system by using renewable power can contribute to reducing an FPSO’s carbon footprint while operating. Bluewater Energy Services is interested in the use of a wind turbine placed on top of an<br/>FPSO, to power the FPSO’s internal electricity grid....master thesis 2022
- document
-
Stefan Stefanescu, Alexandru (author)During the last decade, there have been numerous pledges to reduce emissions. Europe has pledged to reach Net Zero in 2050: every projection to reach the target includes carbon capture technologies. A critical issue for the contribution of these technologies to achieve net zero targets is the transport of CO2 from sources to sinks, wherefore the...master thesis 2022
- document
-
Rou, Jasper (author)In this research, we consider neural network-algorithms for option pricing. We use the Black-Scholes model and the lifted Heston model. We derive the option pricing partial differential equation (PDE), which we solve with a neural network, and the conditional characteristic function of the stock price which leads to the option price with the COS...master thesis 2022