Crisis and financial contagion: new evidences and new methodological approach 

    Villar Frexedas, Óscar (Date of defense: 2015-10-16)

    Thesis consists of three empirical studies focusing on financial crisis, which base on different definitions of financial contagion definitions and use of methodological approaches. The first chapter defines contagion ...

    Crisis bancarias y regulación financiera. El seguro de depósitos: apariencia y realidad 

    Garrido Torres, Antonio (Date of defense: 1990-07-03)

    La historia de las crisis bancarias es también la de los intentos por evitar tanto su repetición como sus efectos más negativos. La ampliación y mejora de los niveles de información suministrados a la población, la suspensión ...

    Essays on Macroeconomic Policies and Redistribution 

    Davtyan, Karen (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)

    The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the distributive effects of macroeconomic policies. In particular, the thesis assesses the distributional impact of fiscal policy, conventional and unconventional ...

    Volatility in financial markets: The impact of the global financial crisis 

    Valls Ruiz, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)

    This dissertation focuses on volatility in financial markets, with a special concern for: (i) volatility transmission between different financial markets and asset categories and, (ii) the effect of macroeconomic announcements ...