Villar Frexedas, Óscar (Date of defense: 2015-10-16)
Thesis consists of three empirical studies focusing on financial crisis, which base on different definitions of financial contagion definitions and use of methodological approaches. The first chapter ...
Vidu Afloarei, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-02-21)
According to the United States Department of Justice (Krebs et al., 2016), 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college. Gender-based violence occurring in universities and on university campuses is ...
Rocchi, Paola (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)
The problem of atmospheric pollution is one of the major concerns about damaging effects of human activities on the environment. Some of the gases released into the atmosphere known as greenhouse gases ...
Gásquez Mendoza, Roberto (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
La industria deportiva es hoy en día un sector con una importante influencia económica. Dimitrov et al. (2006), citado en el Libro Blanco sobre el Deporte de la Comisión Europea, estimó el tamaño de la ...
Díaz Sánchez, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2018-04-25)
This thesis provide a complete and updated understanding of the household overcrowding phenomenon, covering the topic all the way starting in its causes. This dissertation is organized in three ...
Duque Cardona, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2004-09-30)
The interest in geographical information technologies has grown considerably over the last three decades. Today, geographical information is no longer the exclusive domain of government and public ...
Kappler, Karolin Eva (Date of defense: 2009-09-29)
The thesis describes the everyday life of victims of sexual violence in Germany, based upon the qualitative study of in-depth interviews. By means of the grounded analysis of their action system of ...
Radwan Ahmed Radwan, Amr (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)
Obesity is a growing wide spread epidemic all over the world, in developed as well as developing countries. Taking into account its nature as a complex phenomenon affected by different aspects including ...
Strifezzi Leal, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)
This dissertation is composed of three independent but related research articles, each one studying a specific Brazilian policy/program targeted to enhance access of vulnerable groups to higher education. ...
Davtyan, Karen (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the distributive effects of macroeconomic policies. In particular, the thesis assesses the distributional impact of fiscal policy, conventional ...