Ozel, Bulent (Date of defense: 2019-04-17)
The recent debates in economics, following the 2008 crisis, have pointed out a necessity for micro-founded macroeconomic modelling approaches for policy analyses. Agent based models have been adopted ...
García Juan, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
Although empowerment has emerged as a novel issue in the human resource management, it is less known and studied in the field of Public Administration, and, specifically, in Spanish local governments. ...
Chiva Ortells, Carlos (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)
The aim of this research is to study the role of institutional directors in corporate governance. For this purpose, we have analysed the impact that these directors have on CEO compensation and on ...
de Mingo López, Diego Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This doctoral thesis proposes the evaluation of different aspects related to the efficiency and analysis of the behaviour of mutual funds and their demand. The sample analysed focuses on more than 17,000 ...
Zagorisiou, Angeliki (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
The systemic role of foreign banks in the CESEE region coupled with the turbulence in financial markets back in 2008, have given rise to the study at hand. Some years after the global crisis, it is a ...
Marini, Matteo Maria (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)
In the first chapter of the dissertation I conduct a laboratory experiment in order to study the effect of incidental sadness and happiness on risky decision making. The analysis reveals that both ...
Provenzano, Giulia (Date of defense: 2017-09-11)
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has demonstrated that the financial system should be regarded as a complex network whose nodes are financial institutions and links are financial dependencies. ...