Fernández Cebrián, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[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 ...
Peres Cajías, José Alejandro (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
My dissertation aims at analyzing the impact of State intervention in Bolivia by looking at the long term evolution of Bolivian Public Finances, 1882-2007. My dissertation is compound by four different ...
Peña-Mir, José Luis (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
The present study aims to contribute to the analysis on the capacity of contract enforcement institutions in early modern Spain to protect private property rights, thus encouraging the development of ...
Alfonso Pérez, Gerardo (Date of defense: 2022-02-28)
The South-East Asia region is an increasingly economically important region due to its large population and development potential. The region has however experienced phases of substantial economic turmoil ...
Guilera Rafecas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-01-13)
This thesis aims to provide a complete picture on the long term evolution of economic inequality in Portugal. Indeed, Portugal is today one of the most unequal European countries and in this thesis we ...
Tsiachtsiras, Georgios (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
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 ...
Black, Jes (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
This thesis studies the main contributions to monetary theory by Chester A. Phillips in the 1920s and 1930s which deal with the expansion of the money supply when commercial banks use the creation of ...
Vall-Prat, Pau (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
This dissertation examines the origins and consequences of intra-elite political competition. Specifically, it focuses on elite tensions and its role in the democratization process under electoral ...
Sabaté Domingo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
The thesis offers a new database of military expense in Spain from middle of the century nineteen up to the current importance, as well as three analyses of the determining ones and the economic and ...
Marco Lafuente, Inés (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
This PhD dissertation is part of an international research project, Sustainable Farm Systems, which seeks to analyze pre-industrial to industrial agriculture transition from a biophysical perspective. ...