Castells-Quintana, David (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
This thesis focuses on the study of two global trends characteristic of modern economic development, namely increased agglomeration and inequalities within countries. The thesis contributes to the ...
Javed, Omer (Date of defense: 2015-09-10)
This study is motivated by the overall poor performance of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs in recipient countries in terms of economic growth consequences, and tries to explore the relevance ...
Sánchez Torres, Javier Alirio (Date of defense: 2018-03-21)
With the creation and worldwide diffusion of the Internet since the end of the last century, social and economic relations have seen a strong tendency to move from analog to digital, generating new ways ...
Roldán Marín, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
This PhD analyses the causes and consequences of Spain’s non adoption of the gold standard. Chapter 1 is a state of the art about the costs and benefits of the gold standard in Spain. Chapter 2 is about ...
Hintzmann Colominas, Carolina (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
The main objective of the present thesis is to analyze the underperformance of labour productivity growth in manufacturing in EU member states and the existence of persistent differences among them in ...
Marí del Cristo, María Lorena (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)
This thesis comprises three empirical studies about the consequences of full dollarization for three major economic factors: (1) the exchange rate pass-through, (2) fiscal sustainability, and (3) bond ...
Goya Carrillo, Esther (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
This dissertation aims to further understand the relationship between innovation and productivity in Spain taking into account the impact of knowledge flows. To this end, Spanish firms from both ...
Planells Struse, Simón (Date of defense: 2015-05-05)
In this thesis, I draw on these theoretical models from the criminological literature and on the empirical tools from the field of economics to analyze crime from the perspective of economics. I use ...
León, Guillén (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)
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 ...
Sánchez Navas, Alba (Date of defense: 2015-12-02)
El objetivo general de esta investigación es investigar la relación entre la innovación y el rendimiento a nivel de empresa. En concreto, la aportación principal de esta tesis doctoral es la exploración ...