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Essays on Redistribution
[eng] This dissertation contributes to this debate by studying redistribution from three different perspectives. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second and third chapters explore redistribution ...
Essays on Regional Labour Markets in Spain
This thesis analyses the impact of the recession on the regional labour markets in Spain by considering three different aspects: the regional unemployment sensitivity to economic variations, the minimum wage effect on youth ...
Essays on Regional Management Centres: Subsidiary management at the crossroad of psychic distance and regionalization
The aim of this research has been to advance the understanding of RMC units, especially springboard subsidiaries, by identifying factors that contribute to the development of an ordinary subsidiary into springboard, ...
Essays on Regulation, Liberalization and Privatization in Energy Markets
The general motivation of this research is to explore the effects of the coexistence of public and private companies on the allocative efficiency of the supply of electricity. In particular, this thesis investigates from ...
Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood
Aquesta tesi doctoral es composa de tres linies de recerca en que s'analitza de forma dinàmica l'associació entre mobilitat residencial / migracions i les relacions social que es troben en el lloc de residència. Les tres ...
Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Economics and Finance
This thesis adds to the resolution of two problems in finance and economics: i) what is macro-financial uncertainty? : How to measure it? How is it different from risk? How important is it for the financial markets? And ...
Essays on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Development
Aquesta tesi estudia com el risc i els mecanismes informals per afrontar el risc afecten el desenvolupament econòmic a l'Àfrica. Al capítol 1, -L'Efecte Agregat i en Benestar de Completar Mercats Financers Agrícoles-, ...
Essays on second-best pricing schemes for transport infrastructure
Pricing has been advocated for a long time as a suitable policy instrument to deal with transport externalities. Recent technological developments enable the implementation of more sophisticated pricing schemes at affordable ...
Essays on Skilled Labor Force and Structural Transformations
Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three theoretical and empirical chapters that investigate the allocation of skilled workers during structural transformation. Specifically, the second chapter ...
Essays on skills formation
This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students’ performance and ...
Essays on social conflict
Esta tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo profundizar el conocimiento de los principales determinantes de la delincuencia y de la violencia, en las regiones en desarrollo y en las desarrolladas. La tesis busca informar el ...
Essays on Social Groups: Inequality, Influence and the Structure of Interactions
Uno de los principales problemas en economía siempre ha sido entender y formalizar la relación dinámica entre lo individual y lo social. Esta tesis incluye dos perspectivas complementarias para explorar esta importante ...
Essays on social networks and behavioral economics
Los individuos a menudo exhiben robustos patrones de comportamiento al relacionarse con otros y cuando toman decisiones económicas. Por ejemplo, tienden a interactuar de manera desproporcionada con otros similares a ellos. ...
Essays on social networks and cooperation: the case of natural resources
This thesis revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. We analyze the role of social networks and social pressure as driving forces for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable ...
Essays on social pressure: choice and dis(honesty)
Human behavior is strongly affected by social factors such as norms or social pressure, and economic decision making is not an exception. The impact of self and social image considerations is well documented in decisions ...
Essays on Sovereign Debt Crises and Macroeconomic Volatility
Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy into widespread crises. ...
Essays on sovereign debt markets
Aquesta tesis anal.litza les Clausules d'Acció Col.lectiva i les Clàusules de Precedència quan: 1) el repagament és endogen i depèn d'un esforç de lobbying dels creditors. 2) el litigi és purament redistributiu. Hi ha una ...
Essays On Spatial Panel Econometrics
Aquesta tesi proposa una metodologia per identificar i estimar externalitats espacials associades als efectes inviduals en models per a dades de panell. La clau d'aquest nou enfocament és l'ús d'una especificació d'efectes ...
Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models
This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in semiparametric models which ...
Essays on sticky prices, aggregate investment and monetary policy.
La tesis estudia la relación entre las inversiones y la inflación. El primer capitulo muestra que esta relación es más simple (en el contexto de un modelo del tipo neo-keynesiano) de lo que la literatura anterior ha ...
