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On the profitability of large Spanish corporations : return on asset and its components
(Universitat Jaume I, 2014)
In the present work we analyze the profit and growth rates of the largest companies in
Spain in an aggregate way during the last eleven years. Throughout the data of the
around five hundred largest surviving firms, taking ...
Foreign direct investment and FDI-Growth nexus : the case of Mexico
(Universitat Jaume I, 2014)
The main objective of this essay is to demonstrate the FDI-growth nexus and to clarify
the role of some local conditions in the host economy on this relationship. The
evolution of FDI in international capital flows has ...
Sigma and beta convergence in three continents
(Universitat Jaume I, 2014-06-16)
In this project we study sigma and beta convergence in terms of economic growth and
productivity of some representative countries of three continents: Asia, Europe and
America from 1960 to 2011. For this purpose we first ...
Social capital and corruption.
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-07-13)
This final degree project focuses on the relationship between social capital and corruption.
Although the vast majority of the studies carried out about social capital pay special attention on its
economic benefits, is ...
Innovation and R&D in Spanish firms
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-07-12)
This study investigates the determinants of the Spanish firm in their innovation, looking for the effects of the different types of innovation that are produced by the firms. The analysis is based on a sample of more than ...
The Spanish automotive industry as a factor of the economic growth
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-11-25)
The automotive industry has become central for the sustainable economic growth of
our country. The objective of this study is to investigate why Spain is an appealing
country for foreign investors and to describe the ...
Labour market. Factors that explain the wages earned
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-11-25)
This essay compare and prove how the different variables as years of education, work experience, and gender can affect the wages level taking as a basis the concept of human capital. There are different analysis and ...
The effect of herding in financial markets
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-11-25)
In this research we present a stylized financial agent-based model with heterogeneous noise traders that imitate each other on a dynamic network structure. Following Tedeschi et al. (2009, 2012), we show how an expectation ...
Prediction markets and the Spanish election project
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-11-25)
The aim of this paper can be divided into two principle categories. Firstly, prediction
markets will be explained in terms of their potential use in society and their market
mechanisms. A brief introduction based on ...
Aggregating individual risk aversion for the study of complex and risky group decision making
(Universitat Jaume I, 2015-07-13)
This paper focuses on decision making under risk, comparing
individual and risk preferences based on an experiment that consist on a lottery choice
(individual) and a business game simulator (group) taking into account ...