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… by Gabriele et al, (ESM, 2017) entitled “Debt Stocks Meet Gross Financing Needs: A Flow Perspective into Sustainability”, the authors pursue a statistical approach to define relevant explanatory variables for debt (un)sustainability. The topic of this thesis proposal is to develop an economic foundation to support the assessment of sovereign debt sustainability. In particular, the Merton model uses the concept of a distance-to-default model in the context of company credit risk, making use of … in terms of research angle, method, and data. Regarding research strategies, focus, and interventions it includes, for example: - textual manipulation of messages - website, visuals, and tool design - communication channel (direct, via employer, …; online, offline, social media, …) and timing (life events) interventions - emotional triggers - design of default options and products mailto:s.straetmans@maastrichtuniversity.nl mailto:t.post@maastrichtuniversity.nl THESIS TOPICS EBS4012 & EBS4029 … W., & Frank, M. Z. (2004). Is all that talk just noise? The information content of internet stock message boards. The Journal of Finance, 59(3), 1259-1294. Barber, B. M., & Odean, T. (2007). All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors. The Review of Financial Studies, 21(2), 785-818. Chen, H., De, P., Hu, Y., & Hwang, B. H. (2014). Wisdom of crowds: The value of stock opinions transmitted through social media. The Review of …