Rusanescu, Simona (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
This thesis investigates how the presence of foreign controlling shareholders relates to the performance and financial reporting quality of private subsidiaries. We analyze unique, hand-collected data ...
Blanco Arroyo, Omar (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) ...
Miralles Armenteros, Sandra (Date of defense: 2018-06-01)
Compassion is defined as an interpersonal process involving the noticing, feeling, sensemaking, and acting that alleviates the suffering of another person. Thus, compassion can be understood as a social ...
López Zamora, Blanca (Date of defense: 2018-05-16)
Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de estudiar cómo la composición de los consejos de administración de las empresas cotizadas españolas afecta a cierto tipo de decisiones empresariales. Para ello, se han ...
Domínguez Escrig, Emilio (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)
The main objective of this research is to disentangle the factors that promote or are positively related to radical innovation and its success. To this end, four studies have been proposed, which suggest ...
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 ...