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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alvarez-Klee, Roser (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
En esta Tesis Doctoral se investiga el nivel de vida en China durante la época Maoísta (1949-1976). Este periodo de la historia de China está caracterizado por una época de crecimiento económico y ...
Peña-Mir, José Luis (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
The present study aims to contribute to the analysis on the capacity of contract enforcement institutions in early modern Spain to protect private property rights, thus encouraging the development of ...
Pradana, Mahir (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
For centuries, halal is a spiritual concept that Muslims continue to follow in their daily lives, specifically when purchasing and consuming products. The Muslim community takes up a big part of the ...
Ansemil Pérez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)
This doctoral thesis explores under what circumstances executive actors, political parties and interest groups gain visibility in EU (European Union) related debates in the Spanish media for the period ...
Enssle, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Forty-five years after the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dealing with the legacies of the country's repressive past and addressing the needs of the regime's victims of human rights ...
Tassinari, Filippo (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)
In this dissertation I aim at documenting costs and benefits of cities through the lenses of transport economics. In the second chapter of this dissertation, I analyse on the long-term economic effects ...
Miyamoto, Erika (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)
[eng] During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army forced over 200,000 women into sexual slavery in comfort stations across Asia. It is estimated that 80% of the ‘comfort women’ were from Korea, and ...