Ordóñez-Cuenca, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-05-24)
Ecuador presenta importantes disparidades regionales que se derivan en migración interna, las grandes provincias son también las mayores receptoras de migrantes aunque por efecto del incremento del nivel ...
Bahraoui, Zuhair (Date of defense: 2015-03-19)
In this Thesis we addressed two very important themes related to quantitative risk management. On one hand, we provided relevant results about the analysis of extreme value distributions; on the other ...
Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Fadi Mohamed (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
The guiding theme of this thesis is the empirical analysis of recent food price behavior. It is composed of three applied studies that address the impacts of energy prices on both food price levels and ...
Guelman, Leo (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
In many important settings, subjects can show significant heterogeneity in response to a stimulus or “treatment". For instance, a treatment that works for the overall population might be highly inefiective, ...
Badillo Enciso, Erika Raquel (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)
This doctoral thesis consists of three different empirical studies which represent new contributions to the empirical research of firms’ R&D cooperation behaviour, one of the most relevant research ...
Tomeo Foncuberta, Tomás (Date of defense: 2011-07-15)
La tesis tiene como objetivo general argumentar, la relevancia, para las empresas privadas, del mercado de la Base de la Pirámide (BdP en adelante) en la economía mundial. Aunque será desarrollado ...
Herrera-Idárraga, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
1) Informality and Overeducation in the Labor Market of a Developing Country This chapter explores the connection between labor market segmentation in two sectors, a modern protected formal sector ...
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 ...
Belles Sampera, Jaume (Date of defense: 2015-07-30)
This work is focused on the study of risk measures and solutions to capital allocation problems, their suitability to answer practical questions in the framework of insurance and financial institutions ...
Ornelas Vargas, Arelly (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
La planificación del futuro en los ámbitos demográfico, económico y actuarial es crucial. La buena planificación en programas sociales, presupuestos de gobierno, reservas actuariales, costo de seguros ...