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 ...
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 ...
Laureckis Mollà, María Eugenia (Date of defense: 2023-05-03)
[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 ...
Gásquez Mendoza, Roberto (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
La industria deportiva es hoy en día un sector con una importante influencia económica. Dimitrov et al. (2006), citado en el Libro Blanco sobre el Deporte de la Comisión Europea, estimó el tamaño de la ...
Nogués Marco, Pilar (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)
The discovery of America was followed by a flow of precious metals to Spain and Portugal, and from there throughout the world. Historiography has reconstructed the quantities of gold and silver transferred ...
Rubino, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
In the first part of our thesis, we present an analysis of a group of small commodity exporting countries' price differentials relative to the US dollar. Using unrestricted self exciting threshold ...
González Esteban, Ángel Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)
This thesis is concerned with the world wheat economy between 1939 and 2010, which may seem somewhat surprising for several reasons. First, the history of wheat is inextricably tied up with the evolution ...
Pradana, Mahir (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
For centuries, halal is a spiritual concept that Muslims continue to follow in their daily lives, specifically when purchasing and consuming products. The Muslim community takes up a big part of the ...
Trujillo-Baute, Elisa (Date of defense: 2014-09-15)
Within the European Union (EU), economic regulation is often used as a promotion mechanism to achieve specific objectives. In the telecommunications and the energy sectors this is observable ...
Hollstein, Till Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of patterns of trade on the structural composition of an economy. We show that trade affects an economy’s productivity by shifting labor across ...