Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Essays on Regulation, Liberalization and Privatization in Energy Markets
The general motivation of this research is to explore the effects of the coexistence of public and private companies on the allocative efficiency of the supply of electricity. In particular, this thesis investigates from ...
The Consequences of the Social Contract in Income Inequality: A comparison study of Germany and Brazil
Reputable international organisations, such as OECD and ECLAC have revealed that although the tools actually do exist to tackle inequality, policy-makers have not been able to undertake effective policies to face this ...
Essays on the ECB Monetary Policy's Impact on Non-Financial Firms
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 below the zero-lower ...
Essays on Wealth Taxation, Aviodance and Evasion among the Rich
This PhD thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about wealth taxation by providing empirical evidence on this matter. On the one hand, it studies behavioural responses to taxes that levy broad stocks of wealth - i.e. the ...
La lectura dialógica como medida científica para la socialización preventiva de la violencia de género. El caso de un recurso residencial en Cantabria con menores en el sistema de protección institucional
Este trabajo de investigación se centra en el desarrollo de un estudio sociológico sobre el impacto de la lectura dialógica en la socialización preventiva de la violencia de género en el contexto de un recurso residencial ...
An analytical study about the relationship between Green Supply Chain Management practices and Organizational Performance
En esta disertación de doctorado en tres capítulos principales, estudié un estudio analítico sobre la relación entre las prácticas de Green Supply Chain Management y el desempeño organizacional utilizando tres metodologías ...
Las estrategias de financiación de las empresas de biotecnología, con referencia al caso español
Según definición de la OECD (2005), las empresas de biotecnología son aquellas que llevan a cabo alguna de las siguientes actividades: AND/ARN: genómica, farmacogenómica; Secuenciación/síntesis/ingeniería de proteínas y ...
Evolving to Digital and Programmable Value Based Economy: General Prospect and Specific Applications over Sustainability
In the fields of economics, business and management, how could Digital Transformation (DT) advance value creation and reliably encourage value capture, exchange and distribution? This thesis aim to fill that gap with a ...
L’impacte de les condicions socials en la salut mental: soledat i depressió en persones grans
OBJETIVOS: El objeto de estudio son los condicionantes sociales de la depresión en persones mayores y, particularmente, nos ocupamos de la relación entre soledad y depresión. Basándonos en aquellos aspectos que no cuentan ...
Characterization and measurement of social responsibility in micro, small and medium enterprises of the Caribbean Region of Colombia
Despite the literature on corporate social responsibility of small and medium enterprises has grown in recent years, knowledge on the subject is still fragmented and has not yet achieved a coherent theory of social ...
Strategic Interactions in Marketing: A Dynamic Approach
The aim of the thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of the strategic and dynamic interactions in some marketing problems by using a differential game approach. Specifically, in the first study, we analyze a ...
How does the store flyer design and content features influence consumer behavior?
Store flyers have an extraordinary importance to marketing management and contribute to a retailer's performance (Ziliani and Ieva, 2015). They influence the intentions to visit a store, affect the purchase of advertised ...
Historical cost versus fair value of biological assets: Relevance of accounting information
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 sample of firms with ...
Crisi econòmica i transformacions en el mercat de treball: l'associacionisme de treball a Catalunya
La respuesta a la carencia de perspectivas laborales se ha reflejado en una serie de medidas defensivas entre las que se encuentran la salvación de empresas por parte de los propios trabajadores bajo las fórmulas de sociedad ...
Los "segundos mercados" de valores: presente y futuro del segundo mercado de valores de la Bolsa de Barcelona
La tesis consta de tres partes. La primera se inicia partiendo de una visión global del sector financiero de la economia y en ella se estudia la evolución de que el mismo ha sido objeto para centrar nuestro tema de estudio: ...
Essays on Public Policies and Socioeconomic Disparities
The dissertation addresses the analysis of inequality in various aspects of the economy and aims to contribute to the evaluation of public policies, as well as to the identification of possible effects derived from alternative ...
Essays in health and labour economics
The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis has affected this ...
Los aceites vegetales comestibles
He elegido el tema sobre los aceites vegetales comestibles por dos razones fundamentales: la primera, por tratarse de uno de los productos agrícolas más importantes para la economía española; la segunda, para rendir homenaje ...
Sociometabolic analysis of a traditional Mediterranean agroecosystem. Historical transition and Biocultural Heritage. (Les Oluges, Catalonia, c.1860-1959-1999)
ith the spread of the Green Revolution from the mid-20th century, large part of the agricultural systems in the world experienced a series of transformations that have ultimately led to important sustainability problems. ...
Factores explicativos del gasto público: una aproximación empírica
La teoría pura del gasto público adquiere su formulación moderna a partir de las aportaciones iniciales de Samuelson (1954, 1955 y 1968) y la sistematización de Musgrave {1959). La tradición anglosajona en este carnpo ...
