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Wednesday, 24 June, 2026

Master´s Thesis Defense Presentations June 2026

Defense Committee: Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Jan Zápal, Yiman Sun

9:00

Blend Berisha: How Wartime Violence Shapes Post-Conflict Voting: The Electoral Legacy of War in Kosovo

10:00

Boris Gerát: Risk Channel of Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity in the Financial Sector

11:00

Rebeka Hoblik: Priming Protectionism: 19th Century Tariff Exposure and the Shape of Public Discourse in Newspapers

13:00

Maggi Cardoso Giovana: Financial Incentives and Sustainable Mobility: Evaluating the Impact of the Ecobonus Program in Italy

14:00:

Petr Rusnok: Why ICT Matters Less in Europe: Financial Structure and Organizational Investment

15:00

González Munoz René Sebastian: Intertemporal consistency and performance in project realization outcomes

González Muñoz René Sebastian 

Abstract:

In this thesis, I present a conceptual framework for studying project realization outcomes, grounded in the economic concepts of intertemporal consistency and performance. The framework distinguishes three behavioral margins of project pursuit: whether individuals translate project intentions into action, whether they sustain project-consistent behavior over time, and how well they execute project-consistent actions. I apply the framework in two empirical settings: entrepreneurship and education. For entrepreneurship, I use multi-wave Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data merged with country-level institutional and macroeconomic indicators to estimate a multilevel model of early-stage entrepreneurial activity. For education, I use the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD) to study course completion and withdrawal over time. Across both settings, the proxies for intertemporal consistency and performance are positively associated with project realization; in the education hazard model, they are also associated with lower withdrawal risk. Evidence that the consistency and performance dimensions reinforce each other is strongest in the coursecompletion model and more mixed in the entrepreneurship and withdrawal analyses. The evidence is descriptive, but it indicates that the framework is empirically implementable and informative across two distinct project settings.

Full Text: “ Intertemporal consistency and performance in project realization outcomes"