Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This dissertation investigates economic persistence in the Americas. The first chapter shows the positive long-term economic impact of the Guarani Jesuit Missions in South America. I find that municipalities in Argentina, ...
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconomics and finance. In the first chapter, I use texts from corporate filings of US companies to investigate if liquidity shortages that occurred during the late-2000 ...
La tesis consta de trs capítulos, además de un capítulo introductorio, relacionados con la teoría de contratos. El primer y segundo capítulo aplican la teoría de contratos incompletos al estudio de las oportunidades ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I build a sequential trading model to analyze the dynamics ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I develop a macroeconomic model in which financial markets ...
Esta tesis estudia la sobre-educación en el mercado de trabajo en España y el Reino Unido. Utilizando la base de datos Labor Force Survey primero se investiga si la sobre-educación tiene una influencia significativa sobre ...
This thesis looks at the interplay of nomadism and settlement in two different periods of history. In the first two chapters I develop a theory for the Neolithic Revolution, the transition form nomadic hunting and gathering ...
This thesis sheds light on certain macroeconomic aspects of the housing market. Chapter 1 explores a novel channel for house price bubble formation: the demand for housing consumption. I argue that the lower the demand for ...
This thesis studies from the theoretical and empirical points of view the allocation of time by part of rational individuals motivated by technological changes in the economy. Drawing upon the labor market viewpoint of ...
Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECVs) son la principal causa de mortalidad en el mundo Occidental. El interés de prevenir y tratar las ECVs ha desencadenado un rápido desarrollo de los sistemas de adquisición de ...
Atherothrombosis and, specifically intracoronary thrombosis is a major cause of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and consequently of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. While management of acute ST-elevation ...
El cáncer de vejiga es una enfermedad heterogénea. Los tumores se distribuyen en dos vías con cierto nivel de solapamiento: la vía papilar superficial caracterizada por alteraciones de FGFR3 y pérdida del cromosoma 9 y la ...
Over the last decades, fathers are getting involved in their children’s lives. The “New Fathers” are not expected to act as breadwinners but also to engage in their family life and take a similar responsibility than their ...
L'acústica de sales s'encarrega de l'estudi del comportament de les ones sonores en espais tancats.La informació acústica de qualsevol entorn, coneguda com la resposta impulsional, pot ser expressada en termes del camp ...
The processes and mechanisms of virus infection fate decisions that are the result of a dynamic virus - immune system interaction with either an efficient effector response and virus elimination or an alleviated immune ...
This thesis explores the order of the members of the divine sphere reflected in Greek papyri of magical content (PGM). The first section focuses on the religious and philosophical context of Roman Egypt, particularly the ...
Este trabajo propone un análisis sobre la guarnición militar de Montevideo desde su creación hasta el estallido de la Revolución Oriental en 1811. Su objetivo es analizar la actuación del ejército y las milicias que allí ...
Aquesta tesi doctoral proposa i avalua un enfocament computacional per a la descripció automàtica dels aspectes tonals de la música a partir de l'anàlisi de senyals d'-audio polifòniques. Aquests mètodes es centren en el ...
This dissertation revolves around the task of computational key estimation in electronic dance music, upon which we perform three interrelated operations. First, we attempt to detect possible misconceptions within the task, ...
Les tècniques d'imatge d'alt rang dinàmic (HDR) potencialment permeten la captura i l'emmagatzematge de tota la informació de llum en una escena. No obstant això, els dispositius comuns de visualització són limitats en ...
