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 ...