Analysis of environmental policy and emission control instruments 

    Vidal Meliá, Lidia (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)

    The debate on the emissions control instruments for improving environmental policy is the inspiration of the present thesis. In a first attempt, we use a theoretical model to study how international trade affects the ...

    Analysis of high-frequency data on information transmissio and optimal portfolio choice 

    Alemany Palomo, Nuria (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)

    With the advent of the new technological era, the development of high-frequency datasets is easier Ihan ever. It has allowed a wide range of empirical investigations regarding the financial markels to deepen lhe understanding ...

    Un análisis de la evaluación SQAS en el transporte de mercancías peligrosas por carretera: motivaciones, interiorización, prácticas de responsabilidad social y resultados. 

    Torres-Rubira, Juan-Luis (Date of defense: 2022-12-22)

    En este trabajo se pretende analizar la validez de la evaluación SQAS (Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability) como herramienta de responsabilidad social (RS). Por una parte, un análisis comparativo basado en la ...

    Análisis de la influencia del Country of Origin en el comportamiento del consumidor del sector calzado español 

    Casado Cárdenas, Raquel (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)

    Este proyecto pretende profundizar en el grado de implicación del constructo COO en su relación con el consumidor del sector calzado español. En este sentido, parece que el contexto socioeconómico, político y cultural ...

    Análisis del riesgo para la inversión extranjera en China en proyectos de participación público privada (PPP) en el marco de la ruta de la seda (Belt Road Initiative). Un estudio integral en torno a las dimensiones del riesgo y el papel antecedente de la confianza interempresarial 

    Irún Molina, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2019-11-06)

    Se analiza el constructo riesgo bajo un enfoque integral y multidimensional con tal de determinar la forma en que es percibido por parte de las empresas internacionales con decisión sobre las inversiones destinadas al ...

    Antecedents of radical innovation: an empirical research 

    Domínguez Escrig, Emilio (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)

    The main objective of this research is to disentangle the factors that promote or are positively related to radical innovation and its success. To this end, four studies have been proposed, which suggest various facilitators ...

    Attachment Styles Associations with Long-Term Relationships Mediated by Brand Loyalty in the Israeli Mobile Market 

    Frydman, Smadar (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)

    Purpose: The main objective of the thesis is to use attachment styles theory to explore long-term relationships in a service context, using the Israeli mobile market as a case study. Theoretical framework: Attachment theory ...

    Business Cycle Fluctuations and Granular Behavior: an Empirical Analysis vs. the Agent-Based Approach 

    Blanco Arroyo, Omar (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)

    This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) fluctuations is attributed ...

    Citizens' Attitude towards Political Corruption and the Impact of Social Media 

    Belda Mullor, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)

    The thesis is focused on the analysis of the factors that have a greater impact on citizens' attitude towards political corruption and the role played by social media, in order to design better strategies to promote citizens' ...

    Compassion Counts! The power of compassion at work: Empirical findings from several multi-samples studies 

    Miralles Armenteros, Sandra (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)

    Compassion is defined as an interpersonal process involving the noticing, feeling, sensemaking, and acting that alleviates the suffering of another person. Thus, compassion can be understood as a social process rather than ...

    Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Behavior of Employees: Antecedents and Triple Bottom Line Consequences 

    Badoiu, Georgiana-Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)

    This thesis sheds light on the factors that stimulate entrepreneurship within companies, both at the organizational level, by analyzing corporate entrepreneurship (CE), and at the employee level, by studying the entrepreneurial ...

    Demand and management of mutual funds 

    de Mingo López, Diego Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)

    This doctoral thesis proposes the evaluation of different aspects related to the efficiency and analysis of the behaviour of mutual funds and their demand. The sample analysed focuses on more than 17,000 share-classes ...

    Designing scalable and stock-flow-consistent agent-based models: Policy scenarios and experiments on housing markets, monetary unions and interbank networks 

    Ozel, Bulent (Date of defense: 2019-04-17)

    The recent debates in economics, following the 2008 crisis, have pointed out a necessity for micro-founded macroeconomic modelling approaches for policy analyses. Agent based models have been adopted to address two ...

    Economacy Strategies for Countries with Crises 

    Sawayfa, Khalil Abdalaziz Khalil (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)

    As part of this thesis, a conceptual and analytic framework for understanding economic diplomacy is presented, so that its missions, tools, and activities are better understood. Economic diplomacy can be conceptually ...

    El proceso de implementación de la gestión de los recursos humanos: actores y factores determinantes de su eficacia 

    Salvador Gómez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)

    La implementación de las prácticas de RRHH media la relación GRH-desempeño organizativo. A pesar de su relevancia organizativa, el conocimiento sobre este proceso todavía es limitado, evidenciándose una falta de consenso ...

    Empirical analysis of market behaviour: a mesoscopic approach 

    Vidal Tomás, David (Date of defense: 2020-09-03)

    With this doctoral dissertation, we aim to contribute to the literature in two different ways. On the one hand, using an agent based model, we provide policymakers and investors with new methods that can be used in financial ...

    Empowerment and performance in Spanish local governments: The role of goal orientation and well-being of employees 

    García Juan, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    Although empowerment has emerged as a novel issue in the human resource management, it is less known and studied in the field of Public Administration, and, specifically, in Spanish local governments. Thus, this thesis ...

    Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics: Emotions, Uncertainty and Cooperation 

    Marini, Matteo Maria (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)

    In the first chapter of the dissertation I conduct a laboratory experiment in order to study the effect of incidental sadness and happiness on risky decision making. The analysis reveals that both sadness and happiness ...

    Evolución de los clústeres industriales a través de las innovaciones disruptivas 

    Valiente Bordanova, David (Date of defense: 2019-10-01)

    Las aglomeraciones territoriales y más concretamente los clústeres industriales, han jugado -y siguen jugando- un papel muy relevante en el crecimiento de las regiones donde se encuentran. Sin embargo, en los últimos años ...

    Expanding on the debate around the performance of SRI Funds 

    Martínez Meyers, Susana (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)

    With the growth of SRI funds concerns on doubts about their relative performance have increased. In our systematic literature review, we conclude that the vast majority (67%) of the empirical studies show no difference in ...