Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ara mostrant els elements 1241-1260 de 3499
The implementation of the Expected Credit Loss (ECL) model represents a significant change in financial reporting for banks by requiring the recognition of loan loss provisions based on expected credit losses at loan ...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible to make lab games much ...
This thesis aims to contribute to a fundamental objective of Network Economics: to provide based incentives explanations of real social network topologies. By using game theoretical tools, the three papers of this thesis ...
The thesis studies three distinct issues in monetary economics using a common dynamic general equilibrium approach under the assumptions of rational expectations and nominal price rigidity.<br/> The first chapter deals ...
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. The first chapter focuses on the impact of dual labor markets on human capital investment. Using a large dataset of the Spanish Social Security the ...
This thesis investigates several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. First chapter finds that in the US more educated individuals experience lower and less volatile unemployment due to a lower hazard rate of losing ...
This thesis consists of three chapters on theoretical macroeconomics, each one examining the consequences of long-term relationships between economic agents. In the first chapter, the relationships in question are ...
This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central government in China, ...
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ban on the politically ...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how capital markets interpret accounting disclosure. In three empirical studies, I evaluate the role that accounting disclosure plays in evaluating financial prospects and facilitating ...
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel empirical method used ...
El objetivo de la primera parte es de investigar diferencias de productividad entre países de una perspectiva de economía abierta utilizando un modelo de equilibrio mundial con comercio internacional. Este enfoque me permite ...
This thesis deals with the integration of firms into export markets when trade barriers decrease. It consists in three chapters.<br/><br/>The first chapter focuses on how cross-industry differences in factor intensities ...
Aunque las diferencias entre países en la productividad total de los factores (TFP) sectorial está en el corazón de la teoría Ricardiana de comercio y en el de muchos modelos de crecimiento y desarrollo, muy poco se sabe ...
In the first chapter, I examine both theoretically and empirically how income uncertainty affects the effectiveness of monetary policy. I consider income risk from potential unemployment, and find that monetary policy has ...
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock volatilities. We propose ...
La acumulación de Capital Humano es fundamental para explicar recientes procesos de crecimiento económico experimentados en numerosos países, los cambios en la distribución de la renta salarial, en la localización de la ...
El marcatge diferencial d’objecte (MDO) és un fenomen complex, regulat per factors nominals, verbals i pragmàtics. L’animacitat i l’estabilitat referencial dels objectes (Aissen, 2003, Farkas i von Heusinger, 2003) són dos ...
In female mammals, one of the X chromosomes is epigenetically inactivated through X chromosome Inactivation (XCI) during the epiblast differentiation. However, XCI is later specifically reversed in female germ cells by ...
Els biomarcadors són un conjunt de signes mèdics objectius que són molt rellevants en l'àmbit clínic. La metabolòmica és la tècnica d'elecció per a establir biomarcadors. Centrar-se en una família específica de compostos ...
