Mur Torrentó, Rubén Javier (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. The increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, in temperatures, and changes in the precipitation pattern are ...
Tosu, Dilara (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
The dissertation explores individuals' attitudes towards redistribution. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 present two dynamic theoretical models that are used to analyze the interrelation between education ...
Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability ...
Ferrer Rosell, Berta (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)
This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users ...
Capó Artigues, Aina Maria (Date of defense: 2009-06-16)
Aquesta tesi forma part d'un projecte destinat a predir el rendiment acadèmic dels estudiants de doctorat portat a terme per l'INSOC (International Network on Social Capital and Performance). El grup ...
Abu-Rmileh, Amjad Hisham Ahmad (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
This thesis presents different control strategies, for the closed-loop artificial pancreas, which are based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Sliding Mode Control (SMC). Multiple MPC with linear ...
Maynou Pujolràs, Laia (Date of defense: 2013-11-21)
The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the reduction of economic and health disparities in the European Union from 1990-2010. Through different dynamic panel models, we show that in simple economics ...
Arroyo Borrell, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of economic conditions on health using advanced micro-econometric techniques applied to survey data. The dissertation examines the consequences ...
Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)
This thesis studies the effects of hard skills and soft skills and risk attitudes on the likelihood of starting a company in the US. Hard skills are those skills that can be learned and trained. They ...
Serra Saurina, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The main objective of this Thesis is to model the occurrence of wildfires and, in particular, knowing the factors with more influence, to evaluate how they are distributed in space and time. The Thesis ...