Osorio Mejía, Ana María (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to an understanding of the pathways through which structural and intermediary determinants influence child health in Colombia and how they operate through ...
Bahraoui, Zuhair (Date of defense: 2015-03-19)
In this Thesis we addressed two very important themes related to quantitative risk management. On one hand, we provided relevant results about the analysis of extreme value distributions; on the other ...
Pérez Marín, Ana María (Date of defense: 2006-03-06)
El tema central de esta tesis es la fidelización de clientes y la gestión del riesgo de negocio en entidades aseguradoras.<br/><br/>En la tesis se analiza el tiempo de permanencia del asegurado como ...
Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Fadi Mohamed (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
The guiding theme of this thesis is the empirical analysis of recent food price behavior. It is composed of three applied studies that address the impacts of energy prices on both food price levels and ...
Guelman, Leo (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
In many important settings, subjects can show significant heterogeneity in response to a stimulus or “treatment". For instance, a treatment that works for the overall population might be highly inefiective, ...
Badillo Enciso, Erika Raquel (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)
This doctoral thesis consists of three different empirical studies which represent new contributions to the empirical research of firms’ R&D cooperation behaviour, one of the most relevant research ...
Herrera-Idárraga, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
1) Informality and Overeducation in the Labor Market of a Developing Country This chapter explores the connection between labor market segmentation in two sectors, a modern protected formal sector ...
Valls Ruiz, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
This dissertation focuses on volatility in financial markets, with a special concern for: (i) volatility transmission between different financial markets and asset categories and, (ii) the effect of ...
Belles Sampera, Jaume (Date of defense: 2015-07-30)
This work is focused on the study of risk measures and solutions to capital allocation problems, their suitability to answer practical questions in the framework of insurance and financial institutions ...
Tello de la Torre, Claudia (Date of defense: 2012-12-04)
El objetivo de la tesis es analizar la desigualdad y la movilidad salarial en México en el periodo de 1987 a 2008. La tesis está dividida en cinco partes. En el Capítulo 1 se plantean la introducción y ...