Magontier, Pierre (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
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, ...
Daví-Arderius, Daniel (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Environmental awareness is of increasing concern for society and leads heavy pressure to adopt challenging political decisions. In this context, electricity systems are facing a massive transformation ...
Martínez-Cava Aguilar, Julio (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
La tradición socialista fue heredera y continuadora del republicanismo democrático moderno. E. P. Thompson, como historiador e intelectual comunista, reivindicó de forma precursora los valores jacobinos ...
Mauricio Palacio, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The presented discourse followed several topics where every new chapter introduced an economic prediction problem and showed how traditional approaches can be complemented with new techniques like machine ...
Kostic Cisneros, Rosemary E. (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)
The Romani Women’s Association Drom Kotar Mestipen (DKM) was at the centre of this academic investigation. The association is based in Barcelona, Catalonia and their approach to engaging with Roma women ...
Cohen, Lior (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
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 ...
Rubino, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
In the first part of our thesis, we present an analysis of a group of small commodity exporting countries' price differentials relative to the US dollar. Using unrestricted self exciting threshold ...
Papadomichelakis, Giorgos (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
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 ...
Koser, Christoph (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of liquidity in financial markets. Relying on the latest proxies for liquidity and TAQ benchmark data, this dissertation investigates liquidity ...
Puigmulé-Solà, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)
This PhD thesis presents empirical evidence about the effects of political fragmentation on some of the main political challenges society has faced to date in the 21st century. For governments to behave ...