Brkić, Ivana (Date of defense: 2020-07-06)
The concept of economic freedom is based on the existence and functioning of a market economy, with minimal intervention and the role of the state in the market and the private sector. The Index of ...
Narbón Perpiñá, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
The present thesis project considers the multidimensional evaluation of different aspects related to the cost efficiency of local governments in Spain, using non-parametric frontier analysis methods. ...
Vidal Meliá, Lidia (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)
The debate on the emissions control instruments for improving environmental policy is the inspiration of the present thesis. In a first attempt, we use a theoretical model to study how international ...
Ozel, Bulent (Date of defense: 2019-04-17)
The recent debates in economics, following the 2008 crisis, have pointed out a necessity for micro-founded macroeconomic modelling approaches for policy analyses. Agent based models have been adopted ...
de Mingo López, Diego Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This doctoral thesis proposes the evaluation of different aspects related to the efficiency and analysis of the behaviour of mutual funds and their demand. The sample analysed focuses on more than 17,000 ...
Moliner Clemente, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)
Traditionally, the main investor countries at a worldwide level have been Japan, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). This Dissertation focuses on the cases of Japan and the US as investors, ...
Zagorisiou, Angeliki (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
The systemic role of foreign banks in the CESEE region coupled with the turbulence in financial markets back in 2008, have given rise to the study at hand. Some years after the global crisis, it is a ...
Marini, Matteo Maria (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)
In the first chapter of the dissertation I conduct a laboratory experiment in order to study the effect of incidental sadness and happiness on risky decision making. The analysis reveals that both ...
Provenzano, Giulia (Date of defense: 2017-09-11)
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has demonstrated that the financial system should be regarded as a complex network whose nodes are financial institutions and links are financial dependencies. ...
Aparicio-Pérez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2024-01-26)
This thesis investigates the impact of institutions on economic growth and development, a key area in economic research. While recognizing the broad consensus on the importance of institutions, it delves ...