Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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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 ...
Essays on Immigration and Political Economy
Understanding what drives individuals to vote for parties or individuals who have often used violent rhetoric toward women and minorities and enacted discriminatory laws is critical. At the same time, it is crucial to ...
Essays on Networks and Crime
La delincuencia y el temor que genera son determinantes importantes del bienestar individual y de los retornos esperados de muchas actividades económicas. Intuitivamente, y confirmado por la literatura teórica reciente, ...
Retiment de comptes en el sector públic universitari a través d’un model de comptabilitat analítica i un sistema d’indicadors de costos, pressupostaris i financers
La comptabilitat analítica no és quelcom que es pugui regular i normalitzar. Dins de la ciència comptable hi ha un ampli marc normatiu per a la comptabilitat financera, però és pràcticament inexistent respecte la comptabilitat ...
Exploring what disruptive innovation is and its influence on Spanish incumbents
Disruptive innovation has become one of the most renowned types of innovation in the business world. The results of the preliminary review of the literature on this theory have revealed interesting questions about how ...
Risk Analytics in Econometrics
This thesis addresses the framework of risk analytics as a compendium of four main pillars: (i) big data, (ii) intensive programming, (iii) advanced analytics and machine learning, and (iv) risk analysis. Under the latter ...
Orientation towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence on SMEs
In the last decade, entrepreneurship has been seen as a solution to social inequality and environmental degradation rather than a possible cause. This fact called academics' attention to develop a connection between ...
Essays on the Political Economy of Government Fragmentation
This PhD thesis presents empirical evidence about the effects of political fragmentation on some of the main political challenges society has faced to date in the 21st century. For governments to behave in their citizens’ ...
Economic regulation and efficiency of electricity systems
Environmental awareness is of increasing concern for society and leads heavy pressure to adopt challenging political decisions. In this context, electricity systems are facing a massive transformation from the replacement ...
The role of responsible innovation in increasing firm performance in small and medium-sized enterprises and increasing their sustainability
It is difficult to imagine life without changes influenced by technology and innovation, which are characteristic of the era in which we live, with changes that, albeit always present throughout the history of mankind, are ...
Análisis de las relaciones interfirmas en el clúster del turismo de intereses especiales de la región de Los Lagos, Chile
La investigación estudia las relaciones interfirmas en empresas del clúster del turismo de intereses especiales de la región de los Lagos en Chile, utilizando como metodología el estudio de casos múltiples en unidades ...
