Los consejos de las artes y el principio de "arm's length" en las políticas culturales subnacionales: Un estudio comparativo entre Cataluña (España), Escocia (Reino Unido) y Jalisco (México) 

    Chávez Aguayo, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-01-20)

    Se realiza una investigación comparada de los consejos de las artes de tres regiones subnacionales de países distintos: Cataluña (España), Escocia (Reino Unido) y Jalisco (México) para investigar la aplicación del principio ...

    Essays on universities and economic development 

    García Estévez, Javier (Date of defense: 2013-01-11)

    This dissertation seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the roles that universities currently play in economic development. This topic is particularly relevant in the current situation, in the aftermath of the ...

    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 ...

    La gestión de festivales en tiempos de crisis: análisis de las estrategias financieras y laborales e impacto de la recesión económica 

    Carreño Morales, Tino (Date of defense: 2014-04-02)

    La presente investigación tiene como finalidad el análisis de las principales estrategias que caracterizan la gestión de los festivales artísticos (artes escénicas, música y audiovisual) en un contexto de crisis económica ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Essays on the Political Economy of Local Corruption 

    Costas-Pérez, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)

    This dissertation analyses the effects of information on corruption cases on citizens’ electoral behaviour and the media coverage of those scandals. Corruption, defined as the abuse of public office for private gain, has ...

    Essays on Tax Administration 

    Salvadori, Luca (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)

    Tax administration is central to the working of any tax system. This thesis focuses on the Spanish case and proves the existence of two kind of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. ...

    Essays on the Economics of Crime: Determinants of Crime in an Urban Context 

    Planells Struse, Simón (Date of defense: 2015-05-05)

    In this thesis, I draw on these theoretical models from the criminological literature and on the empirical tools from the field of economics to analyze crime from the perspective of economics. I use the city of Barcelona, ...

    Essays on Urban Economics 

    Sánchez Vidal, María (Date of defense: 2016-04-11)

    Cities present high levels of worker and business productivity thanks to their agglomeration economies, which are usually capitalised in higher wages. Cities are, moreover, the perfect environment for consumption, thanks ...