Rusanescu, Simona (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
This thesis investigates how the presence of foreign controlling shareholders relates to the performance and financial reporting quality of private subsidiaries. We analyze unique, hand-collected data ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ivanova Toneva, Mariya (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
This doctoral thesis analyses a number of issues within the domain of local administration; issues such as local indebtedness, spatial effect on local debt and the law of financial sustainability and ...
López Zamora, Blanca (Date of defense: 2018-05-16)
Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de estudiar cómo la composición de los consejos de administración de las empresas cotizadas españolas afecta a cierto tipo de decisiones empresariales. Para ello, se han ...
Rose, Raffaella (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)
Thanks to its pedoclimatic pre-conditions and the great anthropogenic modification of the natural environment of the coastal plain due to the "integral bonification" (1930-1950), the territory of the ...
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 ...
Pulcini, Cinzia (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
In this Doctoral thesis we use an Agent- Based Model (ABM) to analyze variables and dynamics of the economy, building a complex system that is very close to the real world behavior. The main aims of ...
Brkić, Ivana (Date of defense: 2020-07-06)
The concept of economic freedom is based on the existence and functioning of a market economy, with minimal intervention and the role of the state in the market and the private sector. The Index of ...