Djourelova, Milena (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ...
Potapkina, Viktoria (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)
This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, ...
Graells-Garrido, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2015-05-25)
Las tendencias actuales en la Web apuntan hacia la personalización de contenido, lo que no sería un problema en un mundo uniforme y sin sesgos, pero nuestro mundo no es ni uniforme ni libre de sesgos. ...
Artiles, Miriam (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
In the first chapter, I study how human populations adapt to ethnically diverse societies. Using new data on a natural experiment from Peru’s colonial history, the results show that ethnic diversity ...
Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter ...
Sanclemente, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
Es diu que és impossible que els països autoritaris tinguin una opinió pública plenament desenvolupada. Jürgen Habermas criticava Internet per la dispersió dels continguts i la manca de mediadors. No ...
El-Samadoni, Shahinaz (Date of defense: 2022-11-12)
The relationship between humanitarian campaigns and celebrity industry is complex and debatable. The pervasiveness of celebrity led campaigns has recently become a prominent issue in the non-profit ...
Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central ...
Suárez Gonzalo, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
notice and choice para la protección de la privacidad. 4. Your likes, your vote? Big personal data exploitation and media manipulation in the US presidential election campaign of Donald Trump in 2016. ...
Lloret, Mariona (Date of defense: 2017-01-20)
During the 1920s and 1930s dire economic conditions in the Greater Caribbean facilitated the rise of political regimes led by peculiar strongmen. This dissertation offers a comparative analysis on the ...