Cohen, Lior (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling ...
Miarons Blanco, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)
This study develops a bibliometric and empirical analysis of the relevance of accounting information when biological assets are measured at fair value versus at historical cost, using an international ...
Rubino, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
In the first part of our thesis, we present an analysis of a group of small commodity exporting countries' price differentials relative to the US dollar. Using unrestricted self exciting threshold ...
Pagel, Jeffrey M. (Date of defense: 2021-10-04)
Fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community at the start of the 21st century (United Nations, 2015). One aspect that will be ...
Ribó, Ausias (Date of defense: 2016-01-14)
This thesis is composed of 3 independent essays on economic theory. Each essay is meant to be read separately, including footnotes and appendices. In particular, essays 2 and 3 include specific bibliography. ...
Michailidis, Gianko (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
Low fertility and mortality rates combined with the retirement of the generation of “baby boomers” bring about dramatic population ageing and are projected to reverse the demographic pyramid in many ...
Acuña, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)
[eng] In general, this thesis analyses the dependence between the financial stocks índices from different perspectives, taking into account the spatial dependence between financial returns, financial ...
Casanovas i Olivares, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
International relations can be reviewed from different perspectives. One of them is through culture. In general, a lecture and an analysis of it from this specific point of view has been neglected, ...
Uribe Gil, Jorge Mario (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
This thesis adds to the resolution of two problems in finance and economics: i) what is macro-financial uncertainty? : How to measure it? How is it different from risk? How important is it for the ...
Seda Gombau, Gemma (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
The Spanish Health System and almost every single health system from developed countries, has to face a very important problem that is the raise of the healthcare demand. In the past years, thanks ...