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Essays on the world wheat economy (1939-2010)
This thesis is concerned with the world wheat economy between 1939 and 2010, which may seem somewhat surprising for several reasons. First, the history of wheat is inextricably tied up with the evolution of world agriculture ...
Essays on time-consistency of optimal fiscal policy
Esta tesis tiene cuatro capítulos que exploran el papel de la deuda pública en el problema de la inconsistencia temporal de la política fiscal óptimal. El Capítulo 1 resume la literatura existente en el área de inconsistencia ...
Essays on total factor productivity, innovation, education and training: The role of size in Spanish manufacturing firms
A) OBJECTIVES AND HYPOTHESES:<br/><br/>The main purpose of this PhD thesis is analysing the behaviour of different factors that contribute to increase total factor productivity (TFP) in the context of Spanish manufacturing ...
Essays on trade agreements
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel empirical method used ...
Essays on trade and technology
El objetivo de la primera parte es de investigar diferencias de productividad entre países de una perspectiva de economía abierta utilizando un modelo de equilibrio mundial con comercio internacional. Este enfoque me permite ...
Essays on trade integration and firm dynamics
This thesis deals with the integration of firms into export markets when trade barriers decrease. It consists in three chapters.<br/><br/>The first chapter focuses on how cross-industry differences in factor intensities ...
Essays on Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining
Els sindicats han estat en declivi durant els darrers 50 anys, mentre que la desigualtat ha crescut de forma constant durant el mateix període de temps. L’erosió del poder de negociació dels sindicats és un dels factors ...
Essays on Trade, Productivity and Specialization
Aunque las diferencias entre países en la productividad total de los factores (TFP) sectorial está en el corazón de la teoría Ricardiana de comercio y en el de muchos modelos de crecimiento y desarrollo, muy poco se sabe ...
Essays on Two-Sided Markets
Si bien algunas plataformas de mercados bilaterales, como los periódicos, han estado operando durante cientos de años, la prevalencia y el dominio más recientes de gigantes tecnológicos como FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix ...
Essays on two-sided markets and venture capitalist compensation
Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura sobre plataformas bilaterales y compensaciones a gestores de capital de riesgo. Las plataformas bilaterales reúnen dos grupos de usuarios interdependientes entre sí, y permiten cierta ...
Essays on uncertainties and its implications on emerging markets
En tres nous assajos centrats en els "mercats emergents", aquesta tesi proposa explorar les implicacions dels múltiples índexs d'incertesa sobre les variables econòmiques i financeres. Més precisament, el primer capítol ...
Essays on uncertainty, monetary policy and financial stability
In the first chapter, I examine both theoretically and empirically how income uncertainty affects the effectiveness of monetary policy. I consider income risk from potential unemployment, and find that monetary policy has ...
Essays on universities and economic development
This dissertation seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the roles that universities currently play in economic development. This topic is particularly relevant in the current situation, in the aftermath of the ...
Essays on Urban Economics
In this dissertation I aim at documenting costs and benefits of cities through the lenses of transport economics. In the second chapter of this dissertation, I analyse on the long-term economic effects of transportation ...
Essays on Urban Economics
This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on ...
Essays on Urban Economics
Cities present high levels of worker and business productivity thanks to their agglomeration economies, which are usually capitalised in higher wages. Cities are, moreover, the perfect environment for consumption, thanks ...
Essays on Urban Economics
[eng] The dissertation examines how rising housing costs and booming tourism affect local economies. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second chapter studies developers' influence on housing ...
Essays on Urban Mobility and Gender Inequality
Esta tesis estudia la relación entre costes de movilidad y desigualdad de género en el mercado laboral. Se argumenta que, en un contexto de roles de género tradicionales, que imponen en las mujeres mayor responsabilidad ...
Essays on volatility networks and uncertainty
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock volatilities. We propose ...
Essays on wage inequality and human capital in Spain
La acumulación de Capital Humano es fundamental para explicar recientes procesos de crecimiento económico experimentados en numerosos países, los cambios en la distribución de la renta salarial, en la localización de la ...
