The Impact of EU Regulation in Network Industries 

    Trujillo-Baute, Elisa (Date of defense: 2014-09-15)

    Within the European Union (EU), economic regulation is often used as a promotion mechanism to achieve specific objectives. In the telecommunications and the energy sectors this is observable through those ...

    The Political Economy of the Tactical Allocation of Public Spending: Evidence from Spain 

    Curto Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-05-21)

    Nevertheless, this peculiarity of the Spanish political system did not eliminate the incentives for governments to use pork-barrel policies. On the one hand, despite electoral results being centrally planned, Madrid’s ...