Financing Green Innovation: Public finance and eco-innovation diffusion: an evolutionary modelling approach

Fostering green innovation diffusion is one of the goals of the European Green Deal, European Commission's ambitious plan of eliminating greenhouse emissions in the European Union by 2050. This study approaches diffusion of green innovation through the lens of evolutionary economics by considering concepts like path-dependency and technology...

Sub-national Government Fiscal Sustainability: A Research on Fiscal Risks and Fiscal Federalism in Times of COVID-19

The world is now facing what seems to be the biggest crisis since the Great Depression. An unparalleled pandemic of a highly contagious virus in a globalized word. Early economic indicators and the death tolls are suggesting a gloomier situation than expected. Sub-national governments (SNGs) are at the forefront of this crisis, since they are...

Homeowner Effect and Strategic Interaction in Local Property Taxation

This paper investigates whether and how strongly the share of households owning their homes in a community affects residential property taxation by local governments. Homeowners bear full property tax burdens irrespective of local market conditions, and the tax is more salient to them. “Home owner communities” may hence oppose high property...

De staat als twaalfde man: Hoe overheidsinvesteringen de publieke waarde van stadions in gebiedsontwikkeling kunnen versterken

In what way can a football stadium contribute to public values of a municipality? Why does a municipality want to (financially) participate in a stadium project? The purpose of this thesis is to investigate if a football stadium has influence on public goals and can contribute to the public value of a municipality. It stretches around the...