Introduction

New Finance focuses on three distinct topics. The first is the digitalization of the financial sector in general, and more specifically, the digitalization of money. New forms of digital money can contribute to a more stable and just monetary system. 

The design choices that are currently being made are crucial for the future. Secondly, the group New Finance researches the relationship between financial, social and ecological values in the field of integrated reporting. This is a form of reporting in which the main focus is on value creation. The third objective of the New Finance research group is to create different projects to enhance business economics-based education under the denomination Reshaping Business Education (RBE). Examples of which are the establishment and running of an investment fund by students, the development of an RBE course, promotive research into the securing of sustainability in the Finance & Control curriculum, and the development of lesson material regarding critical thinking, based on documentaries about money and finances.

About the professor

dr. Martijn van der Linden

Martijn van der Linden studied business economics at the University of Tilburg (2004) and mounted his career as a management trainee at ING. After working in the financial sector for six years he decided to refocus on economic transitions. He served as chair for the Platform of Sustainable and Solitary Economics from September 2011 to January 2014. From there he worked as a researcher for the project Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation until 2017. He began his position as professor of the New Finance research group in 2018. His dissertation at the TU Delft was completed in 2022, regarding the design of the monetary-financial system in the digital age. His research relates to new forms of digital money (CBDC’s, stablecoins and cryptos), the liberalisation of banks, mechanisms in the monetary system that contribute to inequality and financial instability, as well as monetary policy and reform proposals.

m.j.vanderlinden@hhs.nl 

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Team

Within our research group, researchers, lecturer-researchers and students work closely with practice partners to conduct research. Together they are committed to translating the results of the research -knowledge and insights- into the practice of education and the region.
 

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Projects

ACES – Accounting for Circular Economy and Sustainability

The ACES project brings together the latest knowledge and best business practices on financial and managerial accounting for Circular Economy in the context of the EU’s evolving regulatory landscape.
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Money and finance in the digital age

This research of New Finance focuses on public digital money (and in particular the digital euro), stablecoins, deposit banks, cryptocurrencies, financial instability, monetary policy, and the liberalization and re-regulation of banking.
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The Waterworks of Money

Who creates and allocates our money? Where all does it go? And why doesn’t the financial system work for everyone? These questions are at the heart of The Waterworks of Money, a project by cartographer Carlijn Kingma, investigative financial journalist Thomas Bollen and professor of practice in new finance Martijn van der Linden (PhD).
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News

31 August 2023

Research

Conference and Inaugural Lecture – The Future of Our Monetary System

Martijn van der Linden, New Finance lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, believes that our monetary…
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8 July 2022

Research

Doctoral grant for research on sustainability in the curriculum

Lecturer-researcher Theo de Joode has been awarded a NWO doctoral grant for his research 'Building an integrated…
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Publications

Paper

On the demand for a digital euro

In the autumn of 2023, at the end of two years of investigation, the ECB will decide whether to launch the implementation phase of the digital euro.

Article

The Role of the Accounting and Control Professional in Monitoring and Controlling Sustainable Value

This study explains the role of the accounting and control professional in monitoring and controlling sustainable value

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Report

General Feasibility Report: Implications for setting up Savings Groups in Europe

This feasibility report aims to create a solid background for Savings Groups programming in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands where partner organisations of the LETS SAVEE project are based.

Thesis

Balancing the social and financial sides of the coin

Two things are important in order to participate properly in society: being financially healthy and having a solid social network. They are two sides of the same coin.