Hintzmann Colominas, Carolina (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
The main objective of the present thesis is to analyze the underperformance of labour productivity growth in manufacturing in EU member states and the existence of persistent differences among them in ...
Ladrón de Guevara Cortés, Rogelio (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This dissertation focuses on the estimation of the generative multifactor model of returns on equities, under a statistical approach of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), in the context of the Mexican ...
Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Fadi Mohamed (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
The guiding theme of this thesis is the empirical analysis of recent food price behavior. It is composed of three applied studies that address the impacts of energy prices on both food price levels and ...
Belles Sampera, Jaume (Date of defense: 2015-07-30)
This work is focused on the study of risk measures and solutions to capital allocation problems, their suitability to answer practical questions in the framework of insurance and financial institutions ...