Pagel, Jeffrey M. (Date of defense: 2021-10-04)
Fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community at the start of the 21st century (United Nations, 2015). One aspect that will be ...
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. ...
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 ...
Michailidis, Gianko (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
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 ...
Acuña, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)
[eng] In general, this thesis analyses the dependence between the financial stocks índices from different perspectives, taking into account the spatial dependence between financial returns, financial ...
Casanovas i Olivares, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
International relations can be reviewed from different perspectives. One of them is through culture. In general, a lecture and an analysis of it from this specific point of view has been neglected, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Uribe Gil, Jorge Mario (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
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 ...
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 ...