Shirley Kempeneer

Tilburg University | UVT

Citizen participation has always been considered one of the key pillars of open government: providing citizens with government information should enable them to participate effectively in decision-making or other government procedures. Despite this obvious connection between open government data (OGD) and citizen participation in theory, their rela...

The users, sensors and networks of the Internet of Things generate huge amounts of data. Given the sophisticated (artificially intelligent) algorithms, computing power and software available, we would expect governments to have successfully completed their digital transformation into Jane Fountain's (2001) ‘Virtual State’. In practice, despite heav...

Karen Yeung’s lecture makes a very valuable, and high critical, analysis of the problematic and potentially dangerous pathologies of the New Public Analytics (NPA). Public sector decision making is increasingly data driven as well as outsourced. This has raised concerns regarding the fairness, transparency and even lawfulness of these decisions. As...

Les indicateurs de performance ont toujours fait l’objet de sévères critiques. Ils manqueraient de précision, encourageraient le jeu et, au final, ne parviendraient pas à améliorer les performances. Pourtant, malgré leurs faiblesses amplement documentées, les indicateurs de performance abondent dans l’univers de la gouvernance. Le présent article s...

In a sense, the 2008 financial crisis was a crisis of theory. Regulators, banks, and financial markets all had encompassing theoretical models about how the economy worked, but they all failed to predict the looming crisis. As such, regulators increasingly turn to big data to understand banks' health. Despite the prominence of big data in society,...

Investors are currently obliged to take environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues into consideration as part of their fiduciary duty. As such, it becomes increasingly important to identify sustainable investments that also hold financial value. A sector where this is especially underdeveloped is real estate. This has a lot to do with the obf...

The financial crisis in 2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic today have made it clear that both financial and medical crises spread pervasively across borders. The financial crisis proved that the health of the entire European banking system stands and falls with the health of a single systemically important bank. As such, in the past decade, European Un...

Performance indicators have had to endure severe criticism. They are said to lack accuracy, encourage gaming and ultimately fail to improve performance. Yet, despite their well-documented weaknesses, performance indicators abound in governance. This article asks under which conditions performance indicators can improve performance outcomes, despite...

Performance indicators have had to endure severe criticism. They are said to lack accuracy, encourage gaming and ultimately fail to improve performance. Yet, despite their well-documented weaknesses, performance indicators abound in governance. This article asks under which conditions performance indicators can improve performance outcomes, despite...

The stress test of the European Central Bank has become one of the primary regulatory tools for the European banking system. In order to make such a regulatory indicator, different national banks need to be made comparable according to a common metric. Despite a substantive literature, little empirical work has been done on the social and political...

The stress test of the European Central Bank has become one of the primary regulatory tools for the European banking system. In order to make such a regulatory indicator, different national banks need to be commensurated. They need to be made comparable according to a common metric. Despite a substantive literature, little empirical work has been d...