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How well can we predict life trajectories?
30th March 2020With enough data, computer power and skilled data scientists, one would think that predicting life trajectories in a well-defined context, for example predicting the GPA of children, should not be too difficult. A recent study, authored by a large, international team of researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes to a sobering conclusion.
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How Does Self-Esteem Influence Consumer Behavior?
26th March 2020Products can make people feel great about themselves. Enjoying an exquisite glass of wine in a fancy bar or walking down the street in a new stylish outfit sure sound like great ways to give your ego a little boost. But if people consume to feel great about themselves, why do so many people shop at Walmart, get their hair cut at Supercuts, or prefer dressing down to go to a dive bar? Who chooses inferior products, and why?
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BOR: feasibility and justice in balance?
02nd March 2020The Dutch business succession scheme in the Gift and Inheritance Tax Act and the income tax deferral scheme (together abbreviated in Dutch as BOR) was created so that the continuity of businesses is not endangered by the payment of tax due after a transfer. In doing so, the legislator has coloured the 'business succession' on the basis of objective standards.
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Why Politicians Actively Intervene in Accounting Regulation
06th February 2020Regulation, and especially a technical issue such as financial accounting, is often considered a matter for bureaucrats, not for politicians. In doing so, we tend to neglect that many accounting rules have real economic or social consequences.
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The Netherlands misses out on € 1-2.5 billion in corporate income tax revenues each year
31st January 2020What amounts of taxes are being avoided ? That is the central question in Professor Arjan Lejour’s inaugural address at Tilburg University on February 7. Lejour has studied the extent of the tax avoidance by the business sector. His conclusion is that the Netherlands probably misses out on € 1 to 2.5 billion on corporate income tax revenue every year.
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More equal distribution of wealth makes people happier
23rd January 2020Since the liberalization of the Western economies in the 1980s and 1990s, income inequality has increased dramatically. In the public debate, the question arises how this inequality impacts societies and what role it plays in the functioning of the economy. Bjorn Lous has studied this issue, based on the question: How do the various aspects of economic freedom relate to (inequality of) life satisfaction and trust through their relationship with income inequality? His most important conclusion is that when only few people profit from a high average income, this negatively affects the life satisfaction of societies as a whole. He will defend his PhD thesis on this subject at Tilburg University on Friday, January 31.
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More autonomy and contact with the outside world reduce aggression in prisoners
09th January 2020A few daily routine adjustments in correctional facilities can substantially reduce aggressive behavior in prisoners. This is one of the main outcomes of an evaluation of an experiment with an alternative detention regime that was conducted in the Nieuwegein correctional facility by Ben Vollaard (Tilburg University), Marike Knoef (Leiden University), and Tom van Dijk, independent consultant.
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Tilburg University launches new Bachelor’s program aimed at entrepreneurship
06th January 2020The Tilburg School of Economics and Management starts with a new Bachelor’s program in September 2020: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. The new Bachelor’s is a unique academic degree program in the Netherlands that fully focuses on starting up new enterprises and stimulating innovation within existing companies or organizations. The business community and government authorities will be actively involved.
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EU wide implementation UBO register completed?
23rd December 2019By 10 January 2020, the public UBO register should be implemented in all EU/EEA countries. The Dutch Minister has stated that, according to the European Commission, the implementation is not implemented correctly in any of the EU Member States.
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Background Ads are Everywhere, But How Do They Affect People?
09th December 2019People often encounter advertisements in the background while primarily focused on other stimuli (e.g., while multitasking). For example, someone may listen to the radio while browsing the internet, checking social media, or performing a variety of other tasks.
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Anatomy of political risk
19th November 2019Quantifying the economic impact of risks emanating from the political system (e.g., referendum in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, shutdown of the federal government in the United States) has often proven difficult due to a lack of firm-level data on exposure to political risk and on the political issues firms are most concerned about.
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The procyclicality of banking in the euro area
11th October 2019A high procyclicality of banks’ loan loss provisioning is undesirable from a financial stability perspective, as it implies that bank capitalisations are more negatively affected at the trough of the business cycle, exactly when capital market conditions for banks are at their weakest.
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Taste-based discrimination: evidence from the Netherlands
10th October 2019Stereotyping is not the sole cause of discrimination against ethnic groups applying for jobs or seeking to rent a house. According to research by Elena Cettolin and Sigrid Suetens, it is also a matter of ‘taste-based discrimination’ by employers and landlords.
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Instrumental and affective ties within the laboratory: The impact of informal cliques on innovative productivity
10th October 2019Innovation within firms is influenced by the relationships individuals create and maintain among each other. In particular, knowledge-sharing ties can provide access to diverse knowledge that can enhance their innovative performance.
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Riding the bubble on low interest rates: evidence from the South Sea
08th October 2019Over the past years, a growing number of economists have become convinced that a new era has started – one characterized by unprecedentedly low interest rates. As a result, pundits discuss many disruptive effects inherent to this evolution.