Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Recent submissions
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Structural language change in Alzheimer's disease: a study of spontaneous speech tasks across different stages of cognitive impairment
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to study at-risk populations ...
La Traducción chino-español de las metáforas sobre Relaciones de Género en la novela Wei Cheng (围城): un estudio desde la perspectiva del análisis del discurso
Wei Cheng (围城 ), una de las obras literarias más importantes de la China moderna, es ampliamente conocida por su estilo sarcástico y el uso de abundantes metáforas. Mediante un estudio de la traducción chino-español de las ...
Essays on agent heterogeneity in macroeconomics
In my Ph.D. thesis, I study the subjects of monetary economics, heterogeneity of households and firms, and optimal policy. I solve models with rich heterogeneity and use statistical models to work with time series macro ...
Essays in macroeconomics and economic geography
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution ...
Essays on trade agreements
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 ...
Precarious employment and social reproduction: the impact on health and well-being
This dissertation aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on precarious employment, social reproduction and the impact on health and well-being. In recent years, numerous studies have examined ...
Comunicación efectiva de la ciencia a audiencias amplias : ¿una obligación, un reto o una oportunidad?
La Unión Europea ha detectado que los proyectos de ciencia e innovación financiados por el Programa Marco y sus resultados no siempre se comunican a audiencias amplias de forma adecuada, es decir a la sociedad y los medios. ...
Information propagation in the cortex across the sleep-wake cycle: a computational study
During the deep phases of sleep we do not normally wake up by a thunder, but we nevertheless notice it when awake. The exact same sound gets to our ears and cortex through the thalamus and still, it triggers two very ...
Essays in monetary economics
This thesis studies the optimal conduct of monetary policy in the presence of nominal and informational frictions. The first chapter studies the optimal policy in a small open economy model with external asset holdings. ...
Essays in macroeconomics and agents' heterogeneity
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...
Essays in game theory and mechanism design
This thesis aims to understand negotiations over the behaviour agents will take in a game and, separately, robust implementation. Chapter 1 examines the binding agreements that result from a negotiation over what to ...
Constraints and rewards in behavior and optimal decision making
The idea of optimal decision-making presupposes certain features about the agent and their environment. This thesis examines two common assumptions in disciplines that study natural and artificial behavior: perfect ...
Study of genetic, epigenetic and gut microbiota signatures involved in food addiction vulnerability
The easy access to hypercaloric and palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and food addiction development. The prevalence of food addiction measured with the validated Yale Food Addiction ...
Multidimensional studies of depression and antidepressant response : behavioural models, molecular and structural approaches
Depression is a major public health problem, affecting 322 million people worldwide. Antidepressants are the basis for the treatment of major depression. Although increasingly safer, individual patient response variability ...
Redes sociales online y participación política: un análisis del caso chileno entre 2009 y 2019
La tesis “Redes sociales online y participación política: un análisis del caso chileno entre 2009 y 2019” aborda el impacto de las redes sociales online en la participación política de los jóvenes chilenos durante una ...
Presentation of cytomegalovirus antigens by non-classical HLA class I molecules
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) causes a prevalent lifelong infection in all human populations. Although the course is generally mild and the virus remains latent, HCMV can cause severe disorders in immunocompromised patients ...
Historia y ficción en la novela Jan Karski de Yannick Haenel
La presente investigación analiza las relaciones entre historia y ficción tomando por caso de estudio la novela Jan Karski (2009) de Yannick Haenel. Para ello, se empleará como marco teórico el género novela histórica ...
La participación española en la Guerra de Sucesión de Polonia (1733-1738): una história militar, logística y social
El presente trabajo analiza la participación española en la Guerra de Sucesión Polaca y sostiene, como resultado, que dicho conflicto no responde al modelo de guerra dieciochista que la historiografía ha presentado hasta ...
La mirada internacional de Joan Estelrich en su etapa catalanista, entre redes y culturas
Joan Estelrich Artigues (Felanitx 1896 – París 1958) es un personaje histórico ideal para acercarse al estudio de los nacionalismos españoles y, al mismo tiempo, observar la manera en la que el catalanismo de entreguerras ...
Modelling Parkinson in zebrafish: from understanding disease to discovering new therapies
The term "neurodegenerative disorder" refers to a set of illnesses in which the neurological system gradually deteriorates and is characterized by cognitive impairment, motor degradation, and behavioural changes. The ...
