Recent Submissions

The Politics of EU-China economic relations: Normative and regulatory disputes in the reconfiguration of global economic governance 

Comerma, Laia (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

China and the European Union have a longstanding relationship even if a complex one that is of major importance for the state and evolution of the regime of global economic governance. This thesis aims to fill the gap ...

Regulatory Governance of Higher Education quality in Paraguay: Exploring ANEAES and its Instruments for enhancing higher education quality in Paraguay 

Gomez Valdez, Shirley (Date of defense: 2024-06-17)

This thesis analyses the regulatory governance of higher education in the field of external quality assessment and accreditation. To do this, I developed a case study focussing on Paraguay and studying the National Agency ...

Essays on Market Power 

Deb, Shubhdeep (Date of defense: 2024-06-27)

This thesis consists of three chapters that explore how firm’s behaviour impacts worker outcomes, focusing specifically on the implications of market power on entrepreneurship, wages and inequality. The first chapter ...

Essays in International Macro-Finance and Banking 

Bohórquez, Diego (Date of defense: 2024-06-26)

This thesis examines the impact of various policy interventions in open economies aimed at mitigating disruptions in the financial sector and their effects on the broader economy. In the first chapter, I provide a stylized ...

Essays in Econometric Forecasting with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance 

Crespo Rey, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2024-06-21)

This thesis comprises three chapters on econometric forecasting, with applications to macroeconomics and finance. The first chapter introduces a testing procedure for evaluating superior predictive ability (SPA) in ...

Essays on the Macroeconomics of Long-Term Relationships 

Esala, Lauri (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis consists of three chapters on theoretical macroeconomics, each one examining the consequences of long-term relationships between economic agents. In the first chapter, the relationships in question are ...

Economic Behavior and Personality Traits 

Spantidaki-Kyriazi, Eva (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis comprises three chapters focusing on economic behavior and personality traits. In the first chapter, I investigate experimentally how subjects choose their partners and how they play depending on their ...

Essays in Macro-Finance 

Sargsyan, Hayk (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

This thesis addresses important macro-financial questions and deliberates on policies in response to market inefficiencies. The first chapter explores the impact of debt renegotiations in credit markets in the presence ...

Essays in Macroeconometrics 

Huang, Jiaming (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)

The thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconometric analysis with heterogeneity. Chapter 1 introduces an efficient data-driven clustering methodology for grouping heterogeneous responses within the local projection-IV ...

Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics and Finance 

Cenzon, Josefina (Date of defense: 2024-06-05)

This thesis explores how personal experiences influence individuals’ beliefs about the macroeconomy and their economic decisions. Chapter 1 uses US household survey data to show that personally experiencing a rejection ...

Medical nanotechnology applications in regulatory science: strategic policy development for the regulatory assessment of nanotechnology-enabled health products 

Rodríguez Gómez, Francisco Diego (Date of defense: 2024-07-22)

Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize healthcare, but complex regulations slow its market introduction. This thesis examines the gap between nanomedicine research and its commercialization, addressing the 'valley of ...

A 3D multi-modal approach to study neuronal differentiation and tissue growth in the zebrafish hindbrain 

Blanc, Matthias (Date of defense: 2024-07-19)

The process by which the diversity of neurons making up the brain are produced relies on precise adjustments across space and time. Proneural genes are main drivers of neurogenesis across the different areas of the brain ...

The Fight for Intersectional Claims: An Analysis of Women in Movement 

Muñoz-Puig, Marina (Date of defense: 2024-05-17)

This dissertation examines women's political representation and participation from an intersectional perspective in Catalonia. It encompasses three different, yet interconnected research articles. The first paper analyses ...

Intercultural cities, convivencia and public spaces: Perspectives of policymakers, policy implementers and target groups of Barcelona interculturality plan 

Karaoğlu, Iren Eylül (Date of defense: 2024-03-06)

This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intercultural policies by focusing on the perspectives of different actors about urban encounters and public ...

Normalizing flows for neuroimaging research 

Masias Bruns, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-07-08)

Psychotic disorders are characterized by poorly understood pathophysiological mechanisms, with a remarkable heterogeneity among patients, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. This results in a lack of definitive ...

Cinematic volume rendering solutions for the advanced exploration of medical images 

Baseer, Irum (Date of defense: 2024-07-04)

Medical visualization, commonly used in clinical routine for exploring cardiac data, is based on traditional techniques including multiplanar reformations, maximum intensity projection, and volume rendering that rely ...

Essays in Heterogeneous Panel Data Econometrics 

Mozorov, Vladislav (Date of defense: 2024-05-27)

This thesis consists of three essays on identification, estimation, and inference on distributional features of heterogeneous parameters using panel data. In the first chapter, Christian Brownlees and I consider the ...

A Discurse afterlife: representations of the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco] 

de la Presa, Lucia (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)

This dissertation is an exploration of discourses representing the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco following her assassination on 14 March 2018. Marielle Franco was a councilwoman in the ...

Periodisme i acadèmia Meta-anàlisi de la recerca en periodisme a Espanya 

Salvador-Mata, Bertran (Date of defense: 2024-06-25)

Aquesta recerca analitza la producció científica en la disciplina acadèmica del periodisme a Espanya (1980-2022). Per fer-ho, utilitza l’eina de clusterització algorítmica citation topic (InCites Clarivate Analytics, Web ...

Crime control as social interaction. A conversation analysis of police border checks 

Mora Rodríguez, Michael (Date of defense: 2024-05-14)

This doctoral thesis examines police border checks organised in the Spain – France border area (La Jonquera – Le Perthus). The main objective of these police checks is to prevent illegal activities (i.e., crime control). ...