Magontier, Pierre (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
The world has been urbanizing at an incredible pace during the last century. Meanwhile, the global rise in temperatures has led to the increased probabilities of gradual and sudden natural disasters, ...
Mauricio Palacio, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The presented discourse followed several topics where every new chapter introduced an economic prediction problem and showed how traditional approaches can be complemented with new techniques like machine ...
Papadomichelakis, Giorgos (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic ...
Tchórzewska, Kinga Barbara (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
This PhD thesis provides abundant empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental policy instruments alone and as a policy-mix, looking at its effect on green investment and employment. Finally, ...
López Julià, Aleida (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)
Las redes sociales han ido cambiando la manera de interacción social, especializándose y ofreciendo diferentes tipos para diferentes necesidades. Algunas de ellas; Twitter principalmente para las noticias ...
Ocampo-Corrales, Diego B. (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)
El núcleo de la tesis consta de tres capítulos en los que se explora la naturaleza de los flujos de conocimiento que influyen en la innovación en energías renovables. En los tres capítulos se utiliza ...
Fernández Navia, Tania (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Esta tesis estudia dos factores clave para el funcionamiento adecuado del mercado de trabajo: la movilidad geográfica y los procesos de selección. Relacionado con el aspecto de movilidad geográfica, ...
Mas Montserrat, Mariona (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
This PhD thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about wealth taxation by providing empirical evidence on this matter. On the one hand, it studies behavioural responses to taxes that levy broad stocks ...
Espinoza Solís, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)
There are many factors involved in the low survival rate of Ecuadorian SMEs, among which we can highlight: a lack of R & D, poor managerial orientation to improve processes, poor relations with universities, ...
Suárez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
The general motivation of this research is to explore the effects of the coexistence of public and private companies on the allocative efficiency of the supply of electricity. In particular, this thesis ...