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    Bolivia Public Finances, 1882-2007. Challenges and restricitons of State intervention in a small, multiethnic and revolutíonary economy 

    Peres Cajías, José Alejandro (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)

    My dissertation aims at analyzing the impact of State intervention in Bolivia by looking at the long term evolution of Bolivian Public Finances, 1882-2007. My dissertation is compound by four different chapters. In the ...

    Life Settlements y Viaticals 

    Jori, Mar (Date of defense: 2013-11-13)

    Esta tesis doctoral se enmarca en un novedoso mercado basado en la compra/venta de pólizas de vida donde se comercializan dos tipos de productos: el Viatical y el Settlement. Un primer análisis se centra en el desarrollo ...

    Movilización y Desmovilización. Zapatismo y Sindicalismo en el México de Salinas de Gortari 

    Rojas Pedemonte, Juan Nicolás (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)

    Esta investigación compara el paradigmático proceso de movilización zapatista (EZLN), con la desmovilización del movimiento sindical durante el gobierno de Carlos Salinas Gortari (1988-1994). El contrastante curso de la ...

    Essays on Non-Stationary Panel Analysis 

    Surdeanu, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-01-09)

    This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on non-stationary panel data. We propose novel approaches to both cointegration and unit root analysis in panel data models. The main contribution of this thesis is ...

    Income inequality in historial perspective. Portugal (1890‐2006) 

    Guilera Rafecas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-01-13)

    This thesis aims to provide a complete picture on the long term evolution of economic inequality in Portugal. Indeed, Portugal is today one of the most unequal European countries and in this thesis we look at the historical ...

    Three Essays on Open Innovation and Low/ Medium Technology Industries and Firms 

    El Rayyes, Abd El salam M. A. (Date of defense: 2014-09-17)

    Our work has focused on the theme of open innovation and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, we have investigated open innovation, its effects and its connection with the sectors of Low Medium Technology ...

    The Role of Economic Factors in Obesity Prevalence and Diet Quality in Spain 

    Radwan Ahmed Radwan, Amr (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)

    Obesity is a growing wide spread epidemic all over the world, in developed as well as developing countries. Taking into account its nature as a complex phenomenon affected by different aspects including economic ones, a ...

    Essays on Determinants and Effects of Barriers to Innovation 

    Pellegrino, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)

    The main aim of my doctoral thesis has been to provide new insights regarding the determinants, nature and effects of the barriers to innovation. The thesis is structured in three different but strictly related papers. ...

    Responsabilidad social corporativa y producción de un espacio minero. Un análisis de 23 grandes yacimientos de cobre en el mundo (2006-2010), con énfasis en Chile y Australia 

    Devenin Vera, Verónica (Date of defense: 2015-03-23)

    El incremento significativo de proyectos mineros de las últimas décadas, particularmente en los países del Sur, ha puesto de relieve la magnitud de los impactos socio-ambientales que esta actividad conlleva. Ante esta ...

    Fiscal Forecasting in Italy 

    Carabotta, Laura (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)

    The thesis “Fiscal forecasting in Italy” is comprised of three main chapters in which is analyzed, from an empirical point of view, several issues related to public finance forecasts, with an application to Italy. Chapter ...

    Three Empirical Essays on Informality 

    Baez Morales, Antonio (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)

    Informality is a very complex subject, with the informal workers we see on the streets as only the surface of larger and more complicated issues. The word "informality," when applied to labour, has negative associations. ...

    Fostering innovation through R&D cooperation: an empirical research on government sponsored alliances 

    Sánchez Navas, Alba (Date of defense: 2015-12-02)

    El objetivo general de esta investigación es investigar la relación entre la innovación y el rendimiento a nivel de empresa. En concreto, la aportación principal de esta tesis doctoral es la exploración de cómo la I+D ...

    Las empresas tecnológicas en el entorno de los parques científicos: taxonomía multidimensional 

    Borreguero Fígols, María José (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)

    INTRODUCCIÓN: Está ampliamente aceptada la importancia de la innovación tanto desde un punto de vista económico como organizacional, sin embargo la dispersión de los datos es considerable y son pocas las teorías que ...

    Essays in Economic Theory 

    Ribó, Ausias (Date of defense: 2016-01-14)

    This thesis is composed of 3 independent essays on economic theory. Each essay is meant to be read separately, including footnotes and appendices. In particular, essays 2 and 3 include specific bibliography. The general ...

    Significados de la sexualidad y salud reproductiva: el caso de las y los adolescentes de Colombia 

    Pacheco Sánchez, Carlos Iván (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)

    Partiendo de la hipótesis que la salud sexual y la salud reproductiva de las y los adolescentes en Colombia está influenciada de manera muy importante por el sentido común sobre la sexualidad y los significados que de este ...

    Approaches to variable pay systems 

    García-Hernández, Rosa (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    The general goal of this thesis is to analyze, in some European countries, the connections of Variable Pay Systems with company behaviour, collective bargaining, wage determination and wage inequality. We introduce three ...

    El impacto de las técnicas VaR en los mercados financieros : enfoque basado en la simulación multiagente 

    Llacay Pintat, Bàrbara (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    En los últimos años se ha popularizado el uso de sistemas VaR (valor en riesgo) para controlar el riesgo de las instituciones financieras, e incluso en los Acuerdos de Basilea se promueve este tipo de modelos con fines ...

    Turismo e patrimônio cultural da cidade de Pelotas-RS-Brasil 

    Santos, Nara Nilcéia da Silva (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo elaborar um estudo sobre o patrimônio cultural e o turismo na cidade de Pelotas no sul do Brasil enfocando a importância do patrimônio para o desenvolvimento do turismo cultural. A cidade ...

    Managing chronic care: how to decrease exacerbations 

    Seda Gombau, Gemma (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)

    The Spanish Health System and almost every single health system from developed countries, has to face a very important problem that is the raise of the healthcare demand. In the past years, thanks to health and medical ...

    Essays on the Venezuelan economy 

    Santos, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2016-09-05)

    Fifteen years into the twentieth century, Venezuela displays the same income per capita than in 1955. Sixty years of stagnation, where the country managed to elude its portentous luck in the natural resource lottery. This ...