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Puig Pomés, David (Fecha de defensa: 2023-04-04)
This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...
Manini, Raffaele (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-20)
This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...
Kasperskaya, Yulia (Fecha de defensa: 2007-03-21)
La tesis trata de los modelos de gestión modernos de naturaleza causal, entre los que destaca el Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI). En primer lugar, se presenta un análisis conceptual su supuesto central, las relaciones ...
Costa Ramón, Ana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-06-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effect of children’s health shocks on children’s and parent’s wellbeing. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of C-sections on newborn health. ...
Schreibweis, Michael (Fecha de defensa: 2014-05-05)
The thesis deals with monitoring strategies designed to implement self-enforcing collusive agreements when individual choices remain hidden and firms use public information stemming from different sources. With imperfect ...
Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Fecha de defensa: 2018-02-16)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has increased interest in ...
Lucena, Abel Ernesto (Fecha de defensa: 2011-02-25)
The adoption of open innovation models has been widely recognized as an effective strategy to be successful in knowledge creation. This holds true since a joint adoption of internal and external technology sources may ...
Heineken, Janko (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-15)
My dissertation consists of three essays with the common theme of analyzing economic models of financial assets markets featuring heterogeneous market participants and testing the predictions of these models empirically. ...
Silli, Bernhard (Fecha de defensa: 2009-09-21)
En el capítulo I, se examina el rendimiento de los activos financieros que representan las "mejores ideas" de los gestores de los fondos de inversión. Las inversiones para las que un gestor activo augura un buen ...
López Seguí, Francesc (Fecha de defensa: 2020-10-09)
In the Catalan public health system, the provision of services through the use of digital health tools has gone hand in hand with the increasing digitalization of society as a whole. Since these services are often implemented ...
Pascual Argente, Natàlia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-22)
The objective of this work is the evaluation of the impact of new direct acting antivirals for Hepatitis C as a case of disruptive healthcare innovation that challenged healthcare systems. Two systematic reviews address ...
Voigtländer, Nico (Fecha de defensa: 2008-05-28)
Esta tesis doctoral es una colección de tres artículos. Los capítulos 1 y 2, co-autorados con Joachim Voth, investigan por qué Europa en 1700 ya era más rico que el resto del mundo y por qué Inglaterra fue el primer país ...
Soupre, Matthieu (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-12)
These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty that allows ...
Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Fecha de defensa: 2015-11-18)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...
Kaya, Sandra (Fecha de defensa: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments and field studies. ...
Gunes, Serife Basak (Fecha de defensa: 2009-10-02)
Esta tesis utiliza un enfoque experimental para comprender las interacciones dentro de redes y percibir las decisiones causando inversión de preferencia (IP). El Capítulo 1 experimentalmente introduce comunicaciones no ...
Ponticelli, Jacopo (Fecha de defensa: 2013-06-07)
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter I study the effect of financial reform on firms. In particular, I study to what extent this effect depends on enforcement's quality. I ...
Scherrieble, Willy (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-17)
This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...
Petrella, Andrea (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-06)
This thesis investigates different aspects of firm behavior. In the first chapter I study if the quality of civil justice affects the firms’ participation to Global Value Chains. I find that firms subject to less efficient ...
Tang, Haozhou (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-11)
This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game condition in a model with ...