Universitat de Barcelona
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This dissertation covers the study of assignment problems in a game theoretical framework, focusing on multi-sided assignment games and stability notions. In Chapter 2, we provide some preliminaries on assignment markets ...
La delincuencia y el temor que genera son determinantes importantes del bienestar individual y de los retornos esperados de muchas actividades económicas. Intuitivamente, y confirmado por la literatura teórica reciente, ...
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 ...
Investment in human capital is a key tool for the social and economic progress in every country. Thus one of the most important public policies in the last century has focused on increasing the level and quality of education ...
[eng] In the thesis I make use of the tools provided by game theory to study the incentives of members of a variety of institutions. The three works that make up for the core of the dissertation, stress the importance of ...
Low fertility and mortality rates combined with the retirement of the generation of “baby boomers” bring about dramatic population ageing and are projected to reverse the demographic pyramid in many advanced economies. The ...
[eng] Economic policies and institutional design and decision-making vary greatly accross countries. Germany, the US and Canada, are federal states, where decision-making and economic policies are highly decentralized, ...
The dissertation addresses the analysis of inequality in various aspects of the economy and aims to contribute to the evaluation of public policies, as well as to the identification of possible effects derived from alternative ...
This doctoral thesis talks about the importance of the analysis and evaluation of public policies. The case of Mexico is used to illustrate this importance of this stage during the policy making process. The first policy ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
Tax administration is central to the working of any tax system. This thesis focuses on the Spanish case and proves the existence of two kind of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. ...
In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling below the zero-lower ...
In this thesis, I draw on these theoretical models from the criminological literature and on the empirical tools from the field of economics to analyze crime from the perspective of economics. I use the city of Barcelona, ...
