Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?
| Date: | 30 May 2019 |
| Author: | Bram Gootjes, Jakob de Haan and Richard Jong-A-Pin |
One of the main premises in the study of Public Choice is that politicians may serve other interests than the general interest. A prime example is the phenomenon that incumbent governments adopt expansionary fiscal policy in election years to increase...
Econ 050: The food industry of the northern Netherlands
| Date: | 28 May 2019 |
Food is an integral part of cultural identity, and moving abroad can often mean finding yourself longing for your favorites from home and missing the social element of a shared meal. But a region’s food scene is also very much an economic and business...
Our employee surveys don’t just look at happiness at work
| Date: | 20 May 2019 |
Econ 050: Do immigrants really 'steal' jobs?
| Date: | 17 May 2019 |
Is there any truth to the claims that immigrants steal jobs from the native population? What is the balance of brain drain and brain gain among member states? Post-doctoral candidate Magda Ulceluse sorts truth from fiction when it comes to migrants, job...
Concrete tools for improving staff satisfaction
| Date: | 16 May 2019 |
Leaders select copies of themselves. Will the ‘old boys’ networks give in to the ‘new girls’?
| Date: | 08 May 2019 |
| Author: | Janka Stoker and Floor Rink |
The percentage of women in senior management positions is still rather low. In the Netherlands, a target of securing 30 percent of women in leading positions was legally set down on 1 January 2013 with the Management and Supervision Act (Wet Bestuur en...
Econ 050: Why do some countries grow wealthy while others do not?
| Date: | 07 May 2019 |
What do the modern day Ivory Coast and the 19th century Netherlands have in common? According to research from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, the size of their economies is virtually identical.
Fighting to keep companies accountable
| Date: | 30 April 2019 |
Since earlier this year, Nancy Kamp-Roelands is, by special appointment, Professor of Non-Financial Information, Integrated Reporting & Assurance. She sees this appointment as a bold, well-timed step on the part of FEB. “Although integrated reporting and...
Econ 050: The slippery slope of corporate misconduct
| Date: | 18 April 2019 |
Imagine you’re on the banks of a river, watching the white water rapids rage past you. You’re surrounded by a group of your closest friends who booked a rafting trip, but you’re scared. You are deathly afraid that the raft will tip over, and you’ve heard...
When being green is socially awkward
| Date: | 15 April 2019 |
Climate change, one of the grand issues facing society today, is at its root a behavioural problem. We know what to do (e.g., drastically reduce carbon emissions) and have the tools to accomplish it (e.g., energy-neutral technologies, radical consumer...