Raftopoulou, Athina (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
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, ...
Migliari, Wellington (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
The conflict between property system and the right to housing has evolved into a more complex inquiry since the beginning of the present research. Our initial analysis on the effectiveness of the social ...
Nogués Marco, Pilar (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)
The discovery of America was followed by a flow of precious metals to Spain and Portugal, and from there throughout the world. Historiography has reconstructed the quantities of gold and silver transferred ...
Miarons Blanco, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)
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 ...
Ravenda, Diego (Date of defense: 2014-12-11)
In this dissertation we examine labor tax avoidance, expenses manipulation and accrual management within a sample of 224 Italian firms defined as legally registered Mafia firms (LMFs), due to having ...
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. ...
González Esteban, Ángel Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)
This thesis is concerned with the world wheat economy between 1939 and 2010, which may seem somewhat surprising for several reasons. First, the history of wheat is inextricably tied up with the evolution ...
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 ...
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, ...
Achcaoucaou Iacllouchen, Fariza (Date of defense: 2013-07-01)
The integration of subsidiaries into international networks is altering the scholarly conception of the Multinational Corporation (MNC), forcing us to see subsidiaries as differentiated nodes of the ...