Girardin, Fabien (Date of defense: 2009-07-14)
El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también ...
Garvin, Nicholas (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured ...
Sousa, Rute Inês Silva e (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
Drosophila telomere maintenance depends on the transposition of three specialized retrotransposons – HeT-A, TART and TAHRE (HTT). Controlling the activation and silencing of these elements is crucial ...
Salazar Degracia, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-04-15)
La caquexia afecta negativamente a los pacientes con enfermedades crónicas y sobre todo en el cáncer. Las estrategias terapéuticas son aún limitadas. Los beta2-agonistas (formoterol) y el soporte ...
Pitschner, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
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 ...
Sordo, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2012-02-27)
El consum de la música ha canviat dràsticament en els últims anys. Amb l’arribada de la música digital, el cost de producció s’ha reduït considerablement. L’expansió de la Web ha ajudat a promoure ...
Caro Consuegra, Rocío (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)
As a result of local selective pressures, genetic adaptation leaves distinct recognisable marks in the genomes of human populations. Several cases of positive natural selection have been described in ...
Fabbri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2022-10-25)
Recommender Systems represent a key instrument to convey consumption of contents available on the Web. They enhance the engagement among the users and the online platforms through algorithmic ...
Platikanova, Petya (Date of defense: 2010-03-03)
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 ...
Hans, Christina (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
This thesis investigates various aspects of systemic risk in nancial networks. Chapter 1 explores the existence of a contagion channel to security returns given that banks are connected via overlapping ...