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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Andreu Corbatón, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-07-23)
Market Indices are perhaps one of the most well known concepts in finance. They have also a crucial role in the professional financial field: hundreds of institutional investors, pension funds or ...