Facultat d'Economia i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Understanding Customers’ Actual Purchase Behavior and the Role of Service Quality Perceptions in Quick-Service Restaurants
[eng] The global growth of the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector over the past few decades has led it to its emergence as a prominent sector within the restaurant industry and the broader service industry. The expansion ...
Essays on Violence, Health and Family Dynamics
[eng] Violence is a pervasive societal challenge with profound economic implications. The experience of violence can have durable impacts on the life-outcomes of victims: their health; labor market opportunities, educational ...
Empirical Research on Firms’ Social Responsibility: Labor Tax Avoidance and Asymmetric Labor Costs Behavior
[eng] The goal of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and labor tax avoidance (LTAV) and asymmetric labor cost behavior within Social Accounting. Chapter 1 introduces ...
Essays on Gender Economics
[eng] Despite the abundance of theories and evidence, addressing key questions about the existence and drivers of gender gaps remains essential: Where do gender gaps exist? Why do they persist? Which factors contribute to ...
Essays on Economics of Education
[eng] This dissertation focuses on the determinants and the effects of human capital formation in Indonesia and contribute to the extensive literature on the economics of education. Since the seminal works by Mincer ...
Mercado del café, Comercio Justo y desarrollo de la cafeticultura orgánica en el estado mexicano de Chiapas (1980-2020)
[spa] El café es uno de las productos alimenticios con un mayor consumo mundial. Las más de 3.200 millones de tazas que se consumen diariamente en todo el mundo denotan su importancia social global. Se consume principalmente ...
Essays on Monetary Economics
[eng] This thesis provides research in the area of Monetary Economics. The thesis is divided in three main bodies in which three different but interrelated topics in the field of Monetary Economics are studied. The first ...
Business Model Innovation and Firm Performance: A Performance Feedback Perspective
[eng] This dissertation is presented as a collection of papers. Therefore, chapters 2 to 5 are written in the format of four stand-alone articles. Each chapter is intending to meet the specific objectives described in the ...
Essays on Telecommunications, Trade, and the Credit Market
[eng] The thesis contains three essays that are linked to Development Economics. The first essay is an evaluation of the impact on the Telecommunications sector of the Free Trade Agreements that the United States signed ...
Essays on Economics of Education
[eng] This dissertation explores how changes in society and the family shape educational outcomes, from the perspective of gender inequalities and spillover effects of health shocks. In the first chapter, I provide an ...
Psychological and Personal Antecedents of Purchasing Counterfeit Products (Moderating role of the cognitive system)
[eng] In response to the growing global trade in counterfeit goods, researchers and industry professionals in the luxury brand sector are working to combat these practices, safeguard international trade, and support ...
Essays on Urban Economics
[eng] The dissertation examines how rising housing costs and booming tourism affect local economies. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second chapter studies developers' influence on housing ...
The development of family policies in a familist welfare state: the Spanish case, 1900-1958
[eng] The low development of family policies has been considered a fundamental feature of contemporary southern European welfare states. As a result, family relations and inter-generational solidarity emerged as preferred ...
Exploring Food System Transformations in Spain (1980-2021)
[eng] In this PhD Thesis, I examine the transformations of the Spanish food system from 1980 to the present, focusing on its socioeconomic structural changes and their impacts on sustainability and social equity. My research ...
Digital Content Marketing Strategies for resource optimisation in e-Government platforms
[eng] The use of new technologies, especially social media, has played a vital role in government efforts to coordinate responses to extraordinary events such as the pandemic and ensure public collaboration during this ...
Land revenue, inequality and development in colonial India (1880-1910)
[eng] The determinants of economic development have been largely studied in social sciences. Researchers have mostly pointed at geographic (Roy, 2014; Sachs and Warner, 2001) and institutional factors (Acemoglu et al., ...
The Re-emergence of the Chinese Economy: Internationalization and Technological Catch-up in the Automobile Industry (1953-2018)
[eng] Over the last four decades, China has emerged as the world's main economic actor. This thesis aims to provide a new understanding of the re-emergence of the Chinese economy. The main hypothesis is that this process ...
Strategic recovery for digitally underdeveloped sharing economy components: Coworking spaces’ digitalization in time of pandemic
[eng] COVID-19 crisis marked a milestone for all organizations to reconsider digitalization priorities. Coworking spaces, as digitally underdeveloped components of the sharing economy, carried out a series of digital ...
Essays on Redistribution
[eng] This dissertation contributes to this debate by studying redistribution from three different perspectives. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second and third chapters explore redistribution ...
Essays on the Relationship between the Integration of Management Systems and Sustainability
[eng] This thesis explores the intersection of (integrated) management systems (MSs) and sustainability, aiming to provide insights into how organisations can foster their corporate sustainability performance (CSP). It ...
