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Uncular, Selen (Date of defense: 2024-05-27)
Although nature and labour are two inseparable aspects of life, their artificial separation led to the current era of multiple crises with violations of labour rights at the highest level around the world. As such, fundamental ...
Lillo-Fuentes, Fernando (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)
La evaluación mediada por ordenadores se ha desarrollado como un campo interdisciplinario que permite evaluar, retroalimentar y puntuar los escritos de los estudiantes (Eid y Wanas, 2017; Vajjala; 2018). En el ámbito ...
Tangarife Patiño, Ana María (Date of defense: 2024-07-17)
La disponibilidad de herramientas conceptuales para la descripción y la extracción en un determinado dominio de conocimiento es fundamental para garantizar el acceso a la información. En contextos de conflictos armados ...
Comerma, Laia (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)
China and the European Union have a longstanding relationship even if a complex one that is of major importance for the state and evolution of the regime of global economic governance. This thesis aims to fill the gap ...
Gomez Valdez, Shirley (Date of defense: 2024-06-17)
This thesis analyses the regulatory governance of higher education in the field of external quality assessment and accreditation. To do this, I developed a case study focussing on Paraguay and studying the National Agency ...
Deb, Shubhdeep (Date of defense: 2024-06-27)
This thesis consists of three chapters that explore how firm’s behaviour impacts worker outcomes, focusing specifically on the implications of market power on entrepreneurship, wages and inequality. The first chapter ...
Bohórquez, Diego (Date of defense: 2024-06-26)
This thesis examines the impact of various policy interventions in open economies aimed at mitigating disruptions in the financial sector and their effects on the broader economy. In the first chapter, I provide a stylized ...
Crespo Rey, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2024-06-21)
This thesis comprises three chapters on econometric forecasting, with applications to macroeconomics and finance. The first chapter introduces a testing procedure for evaluating superior predictive ability (SPA) in ...
Esala, Lauri (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)
This thesis consists of three chapters on theoretical macroeconomics, each one examining the consequences of long-term relationships between economic agents. In the first chapter, the relationships in question are ...
Spantidaki-Kyriazi, Eva (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)
This thesis comprises three chapters focusing on economic behavior and personality traits. In the first chapter, I investigate experimentally how subjects choose their partners and how they play depending on their ...
Sargsyan, Hayk (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)
This thesis addresses important macro-financial questions and deliberates on policies in response to market inefficiencies. The first chapter explores the impact of debt renegotiations in credit markets in the presence ...
Huang, Jiaming (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)
The thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconometric analysis with heterogeneity. Chapter 1 introduces an efficient data-driven clustering methodology for grouping heterogeneous responses within the local projection-IV ...
Cenzon, Josefina (Date of defense: 2024-06-05)
This thesis explores how personal experiences influence individuals’ beliefs about the macroeconomy and their economic decisions. Chapter 1 uses US household survey data to show that personally experiencing a rejection ...
Rodríguez Gómez, Francisco Diego (Date of defense: 2024-07-22)
Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize healthcare, but complex regulations slow its market introduction. This thesis examines the gap between nanomedicine research and its commercialization, addressing the 'valley of ...
Blanc, Matthias (Date of defense: 2024-07-19)
The process by which the diversity of neurons making up the brain are produced relies on precise adjustments across space and time. Proneural genes are main drivers of neurogenesis across the different areas of the brain ...
Muñoz-Puig, Marina (Date of defense: 2024-05-17)
This dissertation examines women's political representation and participation from an intersectional perspective in Catalonia. It encompasses three different, yet interconnected research articles. The first paper analyses ...
Masias Bruns, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-07-08)
Psychotic disorders are characterized by poorly understood pathophysiological mechanisms, with a remarkable heterogeneity among patients, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. This results in a lack of definitive ...
Baseer, Irum (Date of defense: 2024-07-04)
Medical visualization, commonly used in clinical routine for exploring cardiac data, is based on traditional techniques including multiplanar reformations, maximum intensity projection, and volume rendering that rely ...
Karaoğlu, Iren Eylül (Date of defense: 2024-03-06)
This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intercultural policies by focusing on the perspectives of different actors about urban encounters and public ...
Mozorov, Vladislav (Date of defense: 2024-05-27)
This thesis consists of three essays on identification, estimation, and inference on distributional features of heterogeneous parameters using panel data. In the first chapter, Christian Brownlees and I consider the ...