Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Enviaments recents
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Essays on Educational Inequality and Policy
This dissertation is composed of three independent but related research articles, each one studying a specific Brazilian policy/program targeted to enhance access of vulnerable groups to higher education. While the articles ...
La Industria del Libro en España. Aproximación mesoeconómica y mesoanalítica para un modelo de análisis
Esta tesis doctoral aborda desde un punto de vista mesoeconómico y mesoanalítico la industria del libro en España, y propone un nuevo modelo para el análisis de la misma. La investigación se ha materializado en cuatro ...
Essays on industrial clusters: Smart Specialization Strategy and regional resilience
Three papers integrate the thesis. Each one has its hypotheses and methodology related to the study of industrial cluster. Paper 1: The concept of clusters has been popularized over the last two decades, mainly through ...
Essays on Empirical Evaluation of Development Programs
Esta tesis presentada resultados de tres evaluaciones de impacto implementadas en países en desarrollo en América Latina. Los dos primeros estudios son evaluaciones realizadas por el método experimental (pruebas aleatorias ...
Essays on Skilled Labor Force and Structural Transformations
Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three theoretical and empirical chapters that investigate the allocation of skilled workers during structural transformation. Specifically, the second chapter ...
SutteARIMA is a New Approach to Forecast Economics, Business, and Actuarial Data
The main objective of this study was to develop a new forecasting method i.e. SutteARIMA method. SutteARIMA was developed by using a combination and/or weaknesses of some forecasting methods that already exist (α-Sutte ...
Understanding Entrepreneurial Legitimacy in the digital space: The Where, The Who and The How
The Industry 4.0 revolution is undergoing a profound transformation due to the unstoppable digitalization of our society. This historic dynamic is characterised by hyperconnectivity, where the Technosphere, the natural ...
Three Essays on the Geography of Innovation: The Role of Transportation Networks and Institutions
The long-term growth of economies depends crucially on their capacity to introduce technological progress. Innovation and technological change are at the heart of economic growth. The diffusion of knowledge and ideas is a ...
El control parlamentario de la empresa pública: análisis de su problemática en Francia, Italia y España
Se trata de establecer la actual situación del control parlamentario en Francia, Italia y España, basándose fundamentalmente en cómo las diferentes asambleas legislativas abordan el control de la empresa pública. El doctorado ...
Three essays on Business Groups discount in Chile. Theory and empirical study
La tesis es el resultado de tres ensayos sobre los grupos empresariales en Chile. A través los datos obtenidos sobre conglomerados empresariales chilenos se utilizan distintas metodologías que ayudan a la determinación del ...
Machismo puertas adentro. Representaciones sociales sobre trabajo doméstico y trabajo de cuidados en parejas de doble ingreso de la ciudad de Talca, Chile.
En un escenario de intensas transformaciones sociales y familiares, y de búsqueda de equilibrio en la distribución de roles al interior de las familias, la conciliación del trabajo productivo y reproductivo emerge como un ...
Essays on Urban Mobility and Gender Inequality
Esta tesis estudia la relación entre costes de movilidad y desigualdad de género en el mercado laboral. Se argumenta que, en un contexto de roles de género tradicionales, que imponen en las mujeres mayor responsabilidad ...
Nuevas perspectivas de la electrificación en países de industrialización tardía. La transición eléctrica en Chile entre 1925 y 1985
El proceso de electrificación de principios del siglo XX permitió que las economías de industrialización tardía acortaran brechas con los países líderes de la Revolución Industrial. Sin embargo, no todas las economías ...
Essays on the Effect of International Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Europe
Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three empirical chapters that investigate the impact of immigration on three different outcomes of the native population, namely employment, wages and human ...
When leaders prioritize their profit against the organizational goal
Newspapers and television are full of stories about inappropriate behaviour by political and business leaders published weekly. According to Guinote (2008), an individual's behaviour will be changed when they reach a ...
Bank and Sovereign Risk: The Case of European Economic and Monetary Union
This thesis consists of four self-contained but related papers trying to uncover different aspects of banking and sovereign risk in the member countries of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). From a methodological ...
Essays in Development Economics
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This ...
Essays in Development and Environmental Economics
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 crucial in this ...
Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Policies
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the effects of macroeconomic policies on the economy and the environment. Chapter 2 examines the composition of fiscal policy and its transmission mechanisms on ...
Causes and Consequences of the Housing Affordability Crisis
This Ph.D. dissertation contributes by shedding new light on three topics that significantly impact housing in urban areas, using fine-grained data. Chapter 2 studies how Airbnb affects a city's housing market. For ...
