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 ...
Vega Núñez, Adriana Patricia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)
The dissertation deals with the analysis of informality in developing countries considering both the worker’s and the firm’s perspective. Within a context of a strong presence of this phenomenon in the ...
Barahona Márquez, Felix (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
During the last decade, the emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) appeared on the world scene, increasing their presence not only in emerging countries but in most of the developed countries ...
Melguizo Cháfer, Celia (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
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 ...
Granados Sánchez, Cristian (Date of defense: 2018-11-07)
In the last few decades Creative Industries (CIs) have been gaining ground as an important topic in academic and political agendas. CIs have their origin in creativity and individual talent to produce ...
Bel-Piñana, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
In recent decades, public-private partnerships has converted in an alternative way of providing transport infrastructures that has been traditional delivered by public sector. Between 1990 and 2017, ...
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 ...
Patricio Mulero, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
Barcelona cuenta con un patrimonio y una producción literaria sólida y relevante para ser considerada plenamente una ciudad literaria. Esta condición está asociada con una identidad literaria característica ...
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 ...
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 ...