Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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The present thesis is a collection of three separate essays, each corresponding to a chapter.Each essay represents an application of structural dynamic analysis within TVC-VARmodels. In the first chapter, coauthored with ...
This thesis consists of three articles that study qualitatively investment in natural gas infrastructure with emphasis on regulatory governance, regulatory and energy policies and governability using different research ...
El trabajo realizado pretende profundizar en la configuración jurídica de la exención tributaria en el ámbito de los impuestos locales. Para ello se estructura en dos grandes partes, diferentes pero íntimamente relacionadas.En ...
Els pacients amb malaltia respiratòria crònica (MPOC) presenten manifestacions sistèmiques com disfunció muscular i alteracions nutricionals. Aquests tenen impacte en la qualitat de vida i la mortalitat. La seva rellevància ...
Retinopathies are a heterogeneous group of conditions that inevitably lead to vision incapacitation and blindness. Currently, they are incurable. Cell therapy has been proposed as a potential solution, but further development ...
The highly conserved exonuclease Xrn1 plays a dual role in gene expression by degrading cellular mRNAs and promoting their transcription initiation and elongation. In this thesis we uncover an unanticipated role of Xrn1 ...
L’augment de popularitat de les taules i superfícies interactives està impulsant la recerca i la innovació en una gran varietat d’àrees, incloent-‐hi maquinari, programari, disseny de la inter ...
The three chapters of this thesis analyze different issues regarding the role of expectations in macroeconomics. The first two chapters consider that private economic agents can either be rational and forward looking or ...
El tema genérico de la tesis es el estudio de modelos dinámicos que departen del supuesto tradicional de mercados perfectos y expectativas racionales. En el primer capitulo se estudia la política monetaria en un modelo de ...
This thesis is a collection of three essays on inflation expectations, forecasting uncertainty, and the role of uncertainty in sequential auctions, all using experimental approach. Chapter 1 studies how individuals forecast ...
The dissertation employs laboratory experimental methodology to study decision-making when people face trade-offs between ethical and economic values. More explicitly, the three chapters investigate 1) consumer behaviour ...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on the presence of the ...
Whereas people are typically thought to be better off with more choices, large sets may lead to "choice paralysis". This thesis explores the processes underlying the choice from multiple alternatives in different settings. ...
This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences of the users from ...
Proteins are the basic functional and structural blocks of life. Knowledge of their structure and function is key to understand how it works. Lately, the gap between new discovered proteins and systematically studied ones ...
Residential access networks provide always-on connectivity at a constant maximum speed and constant energy consumption. However, their usage is not constant. Users combine disconnection periods with light usage periods and ...
This thesis explores the sense and the implications of the messianicity without messianism, a quasi-concept coined by the thinker Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the 1990s that refers to a “structure of experience” characterized ...
La ingente cantidad de información que existe actualmente hace necesario el desarrollo de herramientas, métodos y procesos que faciliten el acceso a la misma. Especialmente, se requieren sistemas de información que sean ...
El consum de substàncies psicoactives té importants conseqüències sanitàries, socials, econòmiques i laborals. Tot i així, el seu consum i les seves conseqüències no es distribueixen homogèniament en tota la població, ...
Music recommendation systems (RecSys) are integral to modern music streaming services. While there is much research on many aspects of RecSys, there is not enough research on exploration and discovery that contributes to ...
