Essays on delegated portfolio management 

Silli, Bernhard (Date of defense: 2009-09-21)

En el capítulo I, se examina el rendimiento de los activos financieros que representan las "mejores ideas" de los gestores de los fondos de inversión. Las inversiones para las que un gestor activo augura un buen ...

Essays on Determinants and Effects of Barriers to Innovation 

Pellegrino, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)

The main aim of my doctoral thesis has been to provide new insights regarding the determinants, nature and effects of the barriers to innovation. The thesis is structured in three different but strictly related papers. ...

Essays on development economics 

Pecha Garzón, Camilo José (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)

Esta disertación es presentada como un compendio de tres ensayos que estudian los efectos de choques medioambientales y de política en el desarrollo físico de la infancia temprana y en algunas variables de resultado de la ...

Essays on development economics from a macroeconomic perspective 

Naval Navarro, Joaquin (Date of defense: 2013-06-18)

Aquesta tesi es centra en diferents aspectes relacionats amb el desenvolupament economic. Primer estudia els efectes de la emigració internacional en la desigualtat econòmica als països d’origen dels emigrants. Es ...

Essays on development, social networks, and information 

Pietrobon, Davide (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)

Esta tesis está formada por dos temas de investigación separados. El primero estudia como las instituciones de aseguración informal influyen sobre el comportamiento de los hogares en las economías rurales. El segundo se ...

Essays on Digital Economics 

Yasar, Faruk (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)

L'economia digital és el marc on els agents es dediquen a activitats econòmiques en un entorn digital amb habilitats tècniques millorades però interacció social limitada o nul·la. Tot i que no és necessari desenvolupar una ...

Essays on digital health interventions : the digitalization of the Catalan public healthcare system: an opportunity for economic appraisal 

López Seguí, Francesc (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)

In the Catalan public health system, the provision of services through the use of digital health tools has gone hand in hand with the increasing digitalization of society as a whole. Since these services are often implemented ...

Essays on distribution rules, identity and social preferences in team production technologies 

Marreiros, Hélia Maria Rosa (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)

Esta tesis consta de cinco ensayos sobre el tema de investigación de cómo la cultura moldea las preferencias sociales, la identidad del grupo y la elección de las reglas de reparto en organizaciones que producen con ...

Essays on Dynamic Games, Sustainable Endogenous Growth and Regime Shifts 

Mañó-Cabello, Carles (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

[eng] This PhD thesis examines the complex interplay between dynamic games, environmental economics, behavioral economics, and economic growth, with a particular emphasis on natural resource issues. Drawing from the fields ...

Essays on economic evaluation of efficiency in health care interventions 

Pascual Argente, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)

The objective of this work is the evaluation of the impact of new direct acting antivirals for Hepatitis C as a case of disruptive healthcare innovation that challenged healthcare systems. Two systematic reviews address ...

Essays on Economic Geography, Development, and Climate Change 

Conte Leite, Bruno (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)

Aquesta tesi doctoral esta composta per tres capítols independents. Contribueix a una literatura sobre desenvolupament econòmic, la geografia econòmica, el comerç internacional i el canvi climàtic. Al capítol 1, “El poder ...

Essays on Economic Growth and the skill bias of technology 

Voigtländer, Nico (Date of defense: 2008-05-28)

Esta tesis doctoral es una colección de tres artículos. Los capítulos 1 y 2, co-autorados con Joachim Voth, investigan por qué Europa en 1700 ya era más rico que el resto del mundo y por qué Inglaterra fue el primer país ...

Essays on economic uncertainty 

Soupre, Matthieu (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)

These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty that allows ...

Essays on economics of inequality: early childhood development and ethnic favoritism 

Tapsoba, Augustin (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)

En esta disertación, investigo las causas y consecuencias de la desigualdad económica a lo largo de dos dimensiones: desarrollo infantil temprano para la desigualdad entre individuos y favoritismo étnico por la desigualdad ...

Essays on education and economic performance 

Romero Valero, Laura (Date of defense: 2003-09-25)

Essays on Education Decentralization 

Salinas Peña, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)

Differences in the division of education responsibilities between tiers of government and in the degree of autonomy the latter have to take decisions and raise their own revenues could imply differences in the level of ...

Essays on education, discrmination and development 

Ramachandran, Rajesh (Date of defense: 2013-04-30)

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Essays on Educational Inequality and Policy 

Strifezzi Leal, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)

This dissertation is composed of three independent but related research articles, each one studying a specific Brazilian policy/program targeted to enhance access of vulnerable groups to higher education. While the articles ...

Essays on egalitarianism-based solution concepts for cooperative TU-games 

Mauri Masdeu, Llúcia (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)

Per a una classe de jocs reduïts, satisfent una propietat de monotonia, introduim una família de solucions conjustistes fonamentades en consideracions igualitàries i en principis de consistència, i estudiem la seva relació ...

Essays on emerging markets 

Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)

This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...