Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Struggling Workers in a Changing World: Three Essays on Labour Economics and Political Economy
[eng] The question of whether automation will cause mass unemployment has been a pressing concern in recent years. While estimates on the number of automatable occupations vary, the prospect of a substantial share of jobs ...
Essays on Tail Risks in Macroeconomics
[eng] This thesis contributes to two problems identified in the literature: i) How do US financial conditions impact funding markets (credit and stocks) in a large set of countries around the world under different scenarios ...
Vidas desarraigadas: Mujeres afrodescendientes, identidades, territorio y conflicto armado en Colombia
[spa] La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo evidenciar y describir los procesos en los que las mujeres negras/afrocolombianas víctimas de desplazamiento forzado viven y (re)construyen sus identidades étnicas y sus ...
Essays on Machine Learning for Risk Analysis in Finance, Insurance and Energy
[eng] This thesis provides research catalogued in the area of risk assessment. Specifically, it contributes to the fields of international finance and asset pricing in finance, and risk assessment in energy economics and ...
Percepciones hacia la inmigración y significaciones de la integración del colectivo de inmigrantes colombianos en Barcelona y Berlín, 2007-2008
[spa] La investigación se enmarca en el campo de la Sociología de las Migraciones. Se aboca al análisis de los procesos de integración del colectivo de inmigrantes de origen colombiano en dos sociedades receptoras de Europa, ...
Essays in Health Economics
[eng] Health across the life cycle is an important component of well-being and quality of life. Bad health is linked to negative child and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes such as educational achievement, future health, ...
Cuerpos, espacios y poder en movimiento. Diferencias de género y clase en los desplazamientos juveniles de dos barrios de Barcelona
[spa] La tesis doctoral se propone analizar cómo los desplazamientos urbanos juveniles se encuentran modulados por las diferencias de género y clase social en el contexto de Barcelona. La investigación se articula en torno ...
Communicating healthy nutrition among young people: Innovative techniques to measure the efficacy of alternative media and messages
[eng] The present thesis chapter presents the study of Millennials´ attitudinal and emotional effects on the perceptions towards advertising in social media and the consequent impact on the effectiveness of the message in ...
La valoración de empreses mediante la lógica borrosa
[spa] La complejidad de la toma de decisiones en el campo de la economía y las finanzas se ha incrementado en los últimos años. Como resultado, se está prestando cada vez más atención al desarrollo e implementación de ...
La recepción del iusnaturalismo popular y el principio fiduciario de la tradición republicano-democrática en la crítica socialista al trabajo asalariado
[spa] En los contenidos de esta tesis se caracteriza un nucleo normativo de continuidad entre la tradición republicana-democrática y el socialismo, atendiendo centralmente la recepción critica del legado del iusnaturalismo ...
Dependence and Systemic Risks in Financial Markets: Spatial and Upper Tail Analysis
[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 losses and financial ...
Contemporary discourses around corporate social responsibility and their influence on business and society relations
[eng] This thesis is about discourses in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and specifically the discussion around the role of business and their contribution towards social development. These issues have ...
Essays on structural transformations: remittances, fertility and informality
[eng] The thesis is composed of an introduction, conclusions, and three chapters that investigate three characteristics of developing countries: structural change, fertility, and informality. In Chapter 2, co-authored ...
Essays on Estimation, Prediction and Evaluation of Insurance Risk
[spa] Se puede definir el riesgo como la posibilidad de que un evento adverso o perjudicial ocurra. En el mundo de los negocios el riesgo se define como la posibilidad de que haya una pérdida económica inesperadamente ...
State capacity, Catholic missions and education in colonial Mozambique
[eng] Consolidating state capacity and ensuring inclusive access to quality education are two of the greatest challenges facing countries around the world today, and are particularly relevant for many African states. ...
Three Essays on Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Agents
[eng] The thesis is divided into three chapters (excluding the concluding chapter and this introduction). Each of them falls within a separate field in Economics. The first is on business cycle theory, a field within ...
Impact of Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Traits and Culture on Leadership Style in Hospitality: Propensity of Green Management Practices Implementation
[eng] The PhD dissertation aims to investigate the impact of emotional intelligence, leadership traits and culture on leadership style in hospitality and the propensity of green management practices implementation. The ...
Local Public Service Provision and Delivery Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation
[eng] This dissertation is composed of four empirical studies on local public service provision, production, and local politics. The first study, Chapter 2, looks at inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). IMC has attracted the ...
Evaluación del impacto del coaching en los resultados organizativos
[spa] La presente tesis aborda la problemática respecto a cómo puede evaluarse el coaching en el ámbito de las organizaciones, de manera objetiva y relevante para todos los involucrados. En concreto, se busca dar respuesta ...
Birds of passage: circular migration and tourism development in Spain, 1955-1973
Circular migrations have played an important role in multiple migratory episodes in the past and present. They have also increasingly been a source of interest for political institutions. Based on the Triple Win theory, ...
