The present thesis studies the consequences of the financial expansion initiated at the end of The Glorious Thirty to spur a declining economic growth. Incidentally, this work questions the issue of measuring economic regularities through econometric tools. Thus, the first chapter carries out an...

Count Data Regression: Modelling Diversification in Sports Participation in Spain -- Modeling and Analysis of Discrete Response Data: Applications to Public Opinion on Marijuana Legalization in the United States -- Random Logit Model: An application to demand estimation for differentiated...

Although there is a lot of evidence for the positive welfare effects of contract farming, it is not clear how to integrate farmers into contracts and how to maintain stable long-term-relationships between farmers and agri-business firms. While Contract Farming is a formal institutional...