Programa de Doctorat en Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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The economics and dynamics of resource wars
The twentieth century was a convulsive one in terms of wars, political conflicts and terrorism. Crime is now more international than it has ever been before. These days, geographical borders do not limit any war; conflicts ...
Local government debt in Spain: Spatial effects and budgetary stability
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 budgetary stability. ...
Analysis of environmental policy and emission control instruments
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 ...
Macro-prudential policy via network analysis
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has demonstrated that the financial system should be regarded as a complex network whose nodes are financial institutions and links are financial dependencies. Since the financial ...
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
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 ...
On the emergence and sustainability of corruption: An experimental analysis
En este trabajo estudiamos diferentes dimensiones del fenómeno de la corrupción.Debido a la dificultad que conlleva estudiar la corrupción, hemos escogido abordar este tema utilizando principalmente la metodología experimental.
La calidad del servicio bancario en un contexto post-crisis: efectos emocionales del cliente sobre sus comportamientos
Varias son las razones por las que, a raíz de la crisis del verano de 2007, las instituciones financieras españolas han cursado un deterioro en el grado relacional con sus clientes. Esta situación ha provocado la búsqueda ...
Evolución de los clústeres industriales a través de las innovaciones disruptivas
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 ...
Three essays based on Experimental Economics: incentives and risk
This thesis sheds light on two of the basic pillars of experimental economics: incentives and framing effects in decision making under risk. Experimental economists are strongly convinced of the importance of monetary ...
Estudios teóricos y empíricos sobre actividad multiproducto y producción con economías de escala
Esta tesis es el resultado de la labor de investigación realizada en el ámbito de la Economía Industrial como parte de mis estudios de doctorado, cuyas actividades docentes, la Universidad Jaume I -dentro del programa de ...
An analysis of the relationship between Economic Growth and the Environment: consequences on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Greenhouse gases are emitted locally around the different countries in the world, but their negative effects, resulting in the very worrying climate change, are an international problem since the fight to reduce them ...
On the impact of public information in financial markets: an experimental approach
The debate on the “limits of transparency” of the central banks’ communication policy is the inspiration of the present thesis. Specifically, this thesis investigates whether it exists an optimal level of information ...
Marketing Mix Instruments as factors of improvement of image of Higher Education institutions and student satisfaction
The main focus of the study is the analysis of the effects of marketing mix instruments in higher education institutions in building the image of higher education institutions and the satisfaction of students, all from ...
Designing scalable and stock-flow-consistent agent-based models: Policy scenarios and experiments on housing markets, monetary unions and interbank networks
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 ...
The Feedback between Real and Credit Markets
The main purpose of this thesis is to extend the theoretical knowledge on the relationship between the financial and the real sectors. Speciffically, we investigate how the allocation of capital affects the dynamics of ...
Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics: Emotions, Uncertainty and Cooperation
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 ...
Sustainability in Microfinance Institutions
Inspired by the 1999 Program of Action defined by the United Nations, which describes eight pragmatic areas for a Culture of Peace. My proposal will work on the section 'Sustainable economic and social development' evaluating ...
Demand and management of mutual funds
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 ...
Antecedents of radical innovation: an empirical research
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 ...
Citizens' Attitude towards Political Corruption and the Impact of Social Media
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' ...
