Black, Jes (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
This thesis studies the main contributions to monetary theory by Chester A. Phillips in the 1920s and 1930s which deal with the expansion of the money supply when commercial banks use the creation of ...
Solé Juvés, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2014-05-12)
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between disability and working conditions. In the first two chapters we investigate how past and current working conditions, in conjunction with other ...
Sánchez Vidal, María (Date of defense: 2016-04-11)
Cities present high levels of worker and business productivity thanks to their agglomeration economies, which are usually capitalised in higher wages. Cities are, moreover, the perfect environment for ...
Prediger, Maciel (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Store flyers have an extraordinary importance to marketing management and contribute to a retailer's performance (Ziliani and Ieva, 2015). They influence the intentions to visit a store, affect the ...
Mas Montserrat, Mariona (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
This PhD thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about wealth taxation by providing empirical evidence on this matter. On the one hand, it studies behavioural responses to taxes that levy broad stocks ...
Armstrong, Ryan (Date of defense: 2018-12-19)
Within management and organizational studies, researchers and practitioners alike have maintained a constant interest in the topic performance management as a means of improving individual and organizational ...
Guio Jaimes, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
This thesis has provide a thorough analysis of the factors that influence the decision process of educational acquisition and an individual's permanence in the school system, first from the perspective ...
Espinoza Solís, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)
There are many factors involved in the low survival rate of Ecuadorian SMEs, among which we can highlight: a lack of R & D, poor managerial orientation to improve processes, poor relations with universities, ...
Todorof, Maria Borisof (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
This work examines the prospective viability of derivatives and financial contracts more generally under a strict application of Shariah law. The author adopts a cross-disciplinary approach in order to ...
de Paz Monfort, Abel (Date of defense: 2012-01-18)
In Chapter 2 we extend the heterogeneous discounting model introduced in Marín-Solano and Patxot (2012) to a stochastic environment. Our main contribution in this chapter is to derive the DPE providing ...