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 ...
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 ...
Cohen, Lior (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Uribe Gil, Jorge Mario (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
This thesis adds to the resolution of two problems in finance and economics: i) what is macro-financial uncertainty? : How to measure it? How is it different from risk? How important is it for the ...
Koser, Christoph (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of liquidity in financial markets. Relying on the latest proxies for liquidity and TAQ benchmark data, this dissertation investigates liquidity ...
López Romero, Marisol (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
INTRODUCCIÓN: El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar sobre las razones por las cuales existe una escasa concesión del crédito en México. En particular, el crédito que va dirigido a promover el ...
Forero-Laverde, Germán (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
This dissertation discusses the accumulation and unwinding of financial imbalances in stock markets and credit aggregates in advanced economies since the interwar years until the present. The project ...