Universitat de Barcelona
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[eng] The thesis is composed of an introduction, conclusions, and three chapters that investigate three characteristics of developing countries: structural change, fertility, and informality. In Chapter 2, co-authored ...
[eng] This thesis contributes to two problems identified in the literature: i) How do US financial conditions impact funding markets (credit and stocks) in a large set of countries around the world under different scenarios ...
This thesis comprises five chapters in total, starting with a general introduction that raises the issue of obesity as well as a brief description of the basic research questions of the dissertation, three main chapters ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic relevance. The settings ...
The world has been urbanizing at an incredible pace during the last century. Meanwhile, the global rise in temperatures has led to the increased probabilities of gradual and sudden natural disasters, putting large shares ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This PhD thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about wealth taxation by providing empirical evidence on this matter. On the one hand, it studies behavioural responses to taxes that levy broad stocks of wealth - i.e. the ...
El propósito de la realización de esta tesis ha sido lograr tres objetivos. En primer lugar, especificar los principios sobre los que la implantación de la imposición sobre la renta en la hacienda local pueda fundamentarse. ...
In the fields of economics, business and management, how could Digital Transformation (DT) advance value creation and reliably encourage value capture, exchange and distribution? This thesis aim to fill that gap with a ...
[eng] In this PhD Thesis, I examine the transformations of the Spanish food system from 1980 to the present, focusing on its socioeconomic structural changes and their impacts on sustainability and social equity. My research ...
[eng] This doctoral thesis investigates the potential of third-party logistics (TPL) companies as key facilitators of collaborative systems and the implementation of the blue ocean strategy within the realm of supply chain ...
Disruptive innovation has become one of the most renowned types of innovation in the business world. The results of the preliminary review of the literature on this theory have revealed interesting questions about how ...
La teoría pura del gasto público adquiere su formulación moderna a partir de las aportaciones iniciales de Samuelson (1954, 1955 y 1968) y la sistematización de Musgrave {1959). La tradición anglosajona en este carnpo ...
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 ...
This document is a summary of the first steps of my journey into academic research. The dissertation provides in-depth analysis of the theoretical basis of the British National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) ...
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo principal analizar el Estado de Bienestar de la población española mayor de 64 años desde una perspectiva demográfica y social, con el fin de hallar posibles patrones de desigualdad y ...
This study develops a bibliometric and empirical analysis of the relevance of accounting information when biological assets are measured at fair value versus at historical cost, using an international sample of firms with ...
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 ...
