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Stam, Iven (author)The financial industry has been significantly transformed by innovations, but traditional banks have managed to maintain their dominant position without implementing many innovations. However, new technologies have caused a shift and should no longer be ignored. Financial institutions are now facing competition from high-tech newcomers, also...master thesis 2023
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Wentink, Marije (author)The challenge addressed within this master thesis is to decide on the next focus area for Equip as an early-stage startup regarding new proposition development. Equip is a Fintech startup currently developing a financial coaching platform to be offered to employees paid by their employer. For employers, it is a valuable strategy to improve...master thesis 2023
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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
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Bonouvrié, Lars (author)The Netherlands is dealing with a severe housing crisis, in which there is a major shortage of affordable housing. The government has introduced many new regulations, trying to curb this affordability problem. Many of these measures seem to center around tempering market parties on the Dutch housing market. However, quite contradictory is that...master thesis 2023
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de Buisonjé, David R. (author), Brosig, Fiona (author), Breeman, Linda D. (author), Bloom, Erika Litvin (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Janssen, Veronica R. (author), Kraaijenhagen, Roderik A. (author), Kemps, Hareld M.C. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Background: Gamification and deposit contracts (a financial incentive in which participants pledge their own money) can enhance effectiveness of mobile behavior change interventions. However, to assess their potential for improving population health, research should investigate implementation of gamified deposit contracts outside the research...journal article 2023
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Taylor, Zac (author)Reflecting on the limits of the sovereign-state centricity of mainstream contemporary climate action, Peter Taylor calls for new forms of regional geographical analysis and intervention. What might these aims and ambitions look and feel like for geographers? With this commentary, I take up Taylor's propositions through personal reflection on the...journal article 2023
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Aalbers, Manuel (author), Taylor, Zac (author), Klinge, Tobias (author), Fernandez, Rodrigo (author)Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of residential REIT (R-REIT) expansion has attracted significant scholarly and broader public interest. This article examines how real estate, finance, and the state are...journal article 2023
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ter Haar, Jeroen (author)The rapid development of technology gives many opportunities but brings threats as well. The digitization of the financial sector has made the threat for cyber attacks significant. Cyber attacks such as the Petya virus or the Wannacry attack have exposed the vulnerability of the critical infrastructure. The financial sector is especially prone...master thesis 2022
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van der Linden, M.J. (author)This thesis applies design science to the monetary and financial system as a whole. The application of this novel methodology offers new possibilities to examine this complex system. The contribution of this thesis is threefold. First, different theories on money, banking and systemic financial crises have been researched through an extensive...doctoral thesis 2022
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Vlak, Job (author)In this thesis, we have examined conditional dependence in a financial context using conditional Kendall’s tau (CKT). The conditional Kendall’s tau is a measure of concordance between two random variables given some covariates. This thesis covers topics related to conditional Kendall’s tau such as (conditional) copulas. We study non-parametric...bachelor thesis 2022
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Vear, Hannah (author)Recently, Deloitte, Nibud and ING conducted a study on financial health in the Netherlands. As a next step, the involved parties have taken the initiative by creating the Financial Health Index (FHI), a tool to measure people’s financial health via fifteen questions. Deloitte is searching for new channels that they could use to stimulate the...master thesis 2022
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Jagesar, Shivaye (author)Blockchain is famously known for its applications in the cryptocurrency space, with staggering market caps and volatile movements, widespread attention cannot be missed in society but also not in financial markets, especially the payments industry. Large-scale diffusion in the payments industry has not yet happened. This research project deals...master thesis 2022
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van Wijngaarden, Maarten (author)We analyze three different methods that can approximate the expected shortfall of a financial portfolio in a nested simulation. In this simulation process, the outer simulation generates risk scenarios, and the inner simulation approximates the value of the financial portfolio under each risk scenario. The first method is the most standard one,...master thesis 2022
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Nota, Hugo (author)The effects of climate change are felt all around the world. An increased sea level goes hand in hand with an increased risk of flooding. To combat this, the coastlines must be reinforced to withstand future sea levels. However, repeatedly reinforcing coastlines to keep up with the sea level rise (SLR) could prove extremely costly. An...master thesis 2022
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Cross, Katie (author), Evans, Jamie (author), MacLeavy, Julie (author), Manley, D.J. (author)In the UK the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigations over the course of the pandemic (March 2020 to the time of writing in January 2022) have been experienced unevenly and with differential intensities at both the regional and local scales. Using individual-level geocoded data (from the Understanding Society: UK Household...journal article 2022
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Akbar Chinna Mohideen, Sheik Mohammed Shibl (author), Singh, Shirish (author), Chowdhury, Tanvir Ahamed (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author)To achieve SDG 6.2.1 (a) on safely managed sanitation services, several financial flow models (FFMs) and business models for the sanitation value chain have been implemented in Bangladesh and elsewhere; however, there is limited research on financial viability and sustainability of business models. Bangladesh has attained 99% sanitation...journal article 2022
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Kockelkorn, A.M. (author), Schmid, Christian (author), Streule, Monika (author), Wong, Kit Ping (author)This article compares how state-initiated mass housing urbanization has contributed to processes of peripheralization in three very different historical and geopolitical settings: in Paris from the 1950s to the 1990s in Hong Kong from the 1950s to 2010s and in Mexico City from the 1990s to the 2010s. We understand mass housing urbanization as...journal article 2022
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Argiolas, Luca (author), Stecca, M. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Battery Energy Storage Systems typically procure their primary revenues from regulated energy and ancillary services markets; nonetheless, they have great potential in supporting distribution network operators and their users. This paper evaluates the potential business case of battery storage systems integrating market application and services...journal article 2022
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Eslamizadeh, S. (author), Ghorbani, A. (author), Castelo Branco Ferreira Costa, R. (author), Kunneke, R.W. (author), Weijnen, M.P.C. (author)Considering that the industrial sector consumes almost one-third of the energy demand globally, it is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprints in this sector. Among different approaches to meet this goal, such as the employment of carbon capture technologies and increasing energy efficiency within industries, transitioning to renewable...journal article 2022