Programa de Doctorat en Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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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' ...
The influence of new marketing approaches on the export performance of Spanish firms
This thesis pretends to determine the variables that have an influence on the export performance of Spanish companies in the fashion sector. To do so, a special attention has been paid to new marketing approaches, considering ...
Empowerment and performance in Spanish local governments: The role of goal orientation and well-being of employees
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 ...
La Composición de los Consejos de Administración de las Empresas Cotizadas Españolas y su Impacto en la Toma de Decisiones Empresariales
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 propuesto tres objetivos ...
Compassion Counts! The power of compassion at work: Empirical findings from several multi-samples studies
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 ...
Analysis of high-frequency data on information transmissio and optimal portfolio choice
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 ...
Cross-border banking and the importance of parents banks' performance for subsidiaries' credit extensions: evidence derived from a newly constructed database
The systemic role of foreign banks in the CESEE region coupled with the turbulence in financial markets back in 2008, have given rise to the study at hand. Some years after the global crisis, it is a perfect moment to ...
La sostenibilidad del sistema sanitario en la España descentralizada de las autonomías
Investigación basada en tres trabajos empíricos. En el primero se realiza encuesta y entrevista a una muestra de gestores sanitarios de nivel técnico y político sobre el futuro de la sostenibilidad de los sistemas sanitarios. ...
Approaching Complex Credit-Driven Economies From The Bottom Up: An Agent-Based Model for Open Economies And An Empirical Study on Loans’ Distribution
In this thesis we use methodologies that are grounded on a ``bottom-up'' approach, denoting the importance of considering the emergence of the aggregate economic behavior from the interaction of heterogeneous economic ...
A statistichal equilibrium perspective on corporate profitability
The thesis shows how the dynamics a large pool of publicly traded firms can be meaningful described by a single stochastic equation under statistical equilibrium approximation. The whole dynamics of profitability of the ...
Three essays on the effects of foreign direct investment on the host-country companies: An analysis in the private setting
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 consisting of a sample ...
Tres ensayos en Finanzas del Comportamiento
El principal objetivo de esta tesis es contrastar las dos principales corrientes de opinión existentes sobre las Finanzas del Comportamiento: aquella que las considera como un simple conjunto de anomalías de mercado o ...
Agent-based simulation of macroeconomic systems
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 the research are ...
Alternative investments for the retail investor in Spanish equities mutual funds
This paper tries to overcome the limitations that retail investor seek when using traditional approaches to asset allocation, particularly in Spanish equities mutual funds. To do so, we structure this paper into three ...
El Consejero Dominical y el Gobierno Corporativo / Institutional Directors and Corporate Governance
The aim of this research is to study the role of institutional directors in corporate governance. For this purpose, we have analysed the impact that these directors have on CEO compensation and on corporate social ...
Influencia de la experiencia de compra en el valor de marca del comercio detallista: Una aplicación al comercio de la Comunidad Valenciana
La presente investigación se centra en analizar la influencia que la experiencia de compra del cliente ejerce en el valor de marca del comercio detallista. En el actual entorno competitivo en el que se mueve el comercio ...
