ECONOMICS, 3

Author: FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ ENRIQUE.
Year: 2005.
University: OVIEDO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN DE EMPRESAS Y CONTABILIDAD.

Summary: The objective of this thesis is to analyze Doctoral impact it has had on business and the capital market and Spanish enactment in February of the year 1998 of the Code of Good Governance prepared by the Commission Olivencia. To this end we study the determinants of the decision to voluntarily comply with the recommendations of the Code by the Spanish non-financial companies listed on the period 1998-2000, and the rating that in the short, medium and long term, has made the capital market that decision. The results of empirical analysis shows a low degree of follow up recommendations of the Code and that companies have declared to voluntarily comply with those that have been presented potentially fewer possibilities for extracting private benefits of control. It was also noted that the capital market seems to react in a positive way around the ads making good governance practices covered by the Code Olivencia, being higher this reaction in the case of companies that presents a minor development of mechanisms monitoring and control of the managers. Lastly, it seems clear that the companies who declare comply with the Code see an increase in its yield market in the medium and long term. In conclusion, the results obtained in this paper seem to point to the limited success of the voluntary Code Olivencia, firstly as a means to reform so effective governance structures of Spanish companies, as it seemed noted that companies having declared comply with the Code Olivencia are presenting best previous government structures, and secondly, as a means to increase the value of companies because they are not notes that compliance has contributed to significant increases in performance market firms in the medium and long term.

Author: Serrano Álvarez José Antonio.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (UAB).

Summary: In Leon, the community, especially the mountains, subject to strict regulation and varied traditional uses, were the basis on which rested the agricultural system. Since the nineteenth century, from the agrarian reform liberals, communally held property came under considerable strain as it sought its liberalization and the mountains of peoples were supervised by the Forestry Administration set up for this purpose. This thesis examines like, despite this pressure because unlike in other parts of Spain, people not only preserved (and in some cases increased) their collective properties, but remained traditional uses in the bush. One of the factors behind the persistence of communal strategies were implemented by the peasantry to defend communal properties and uses. Behind this diversity of forms of protest, as the legal struggle against the sale of the community, rejecting the administration forest or purchase collective mountains to the local communities had been using, it can be seen that there is a "moral economy justify these strategies. is, to defend the community was defending a way of economic and social reproduction that depended on the community and that the State was attacking. also was defending a culture and a way of life, so despite all the efforts of the State to make the property on which the axis of spin had social relationships, in this thesis is that defends capitalism imposed soon in most counties because leonesa was severely resisted.

Author: Puig Ventosa Ignasi.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials..
Place of preparation: Barcelona.

Summary: In the last twenty years has proposed a tax reform green. The use of taxation as an instrument of environmental policy has proved effective and efficient tool to statewide and regional levels. Even so, its potential implementation at the local level has been little studied, and in the Spanish state, the number of tests is reduced. Despite the fact that local entities have their tax structure and approve its annual fiscal ordinances, they usually have a strictly collecting. Municipalities can see from the perspective of the Urban Ecology (studying the flow of materials and energy and environmental impacts) and introduce ordinances in fiscal criteria that make them economically encourage good environmental practices. The thesis (through case studies) examines aspects to be taken into account respect for the creation of taxes, the selection of the tax base and the tax rate or fee, advertising, the application of tax benefits, the possible environmental regressivity of the tax his possible "neutral" tax ... Considering these aspects, teis analyzes the various fiscal and economic instruments at the disposal of local entities proposing concrete actions and legally viable environmental purposes. Among the highlights instruments analyzed for their potential changes raised the tax on real estate, tax structures, facilities and construction, garbage fees, parking fees, fees for administrative services (licensing activities, urban licenses, control of advertising, noise control, etc. fees for the use of the public domain, water rates and public transport. The thesis demonstrates that the application of taxation is relevant at the local level, but that it also has positive effects on a broader geographical scope. Taxation may constitute forward in a new field of environmental policy instruments to complement local employees so far.

Author: Saona Hoffmann Paolo Rodrigo.
Year: 2005.
University: VALLADOLID.
Place of defense: Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales.
Place of preparation: Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales.

Summary: The purpose of research is to analyze the determinants of decision debt of the companies. This is a frame of reference theory positive for the agency and focus Law & Finance. In particular, it discusses the factors that affect the total level of debt, ownership of the same and their maturity. In Chapter I, which describes the factors business of the financing decision. Among the matters discussed included the analysis of various models explaining the funding decision, focusing on the relationship between gestada managers, creditors and shareholders. It was also studying the determinants of ownership of debt and the maturity of it. The consideration of the institutional factors is done through the approach of financial services. This is the whole financial services provided to companies by the financial system for the protection of the rights of investors, in particular, and to facilitate the various negotiations on the capital market in general. This element is discussed in detail in Chapter II, which lays the foundation on the main features of financial systems together with a comparison of the various components of their legal doctrines. Chapter II closes with a detailed analysis of the observable differences between the various countries for the legal system of civil, because it is finally in this environment we were making the empirical analysis. An analysis of these two elements we get a number of assumptions that could contrastación empirical coming to explain the funding decision taken by the companies. Generally speaking, these assumptions are focused primarily on debt as a mechanism of government that becomes particularly relevant when there are opportunities for growth and shortage of funds for the financing of portfolio investment. In this regard, it also analyzes the concentration of ownership and control mechanism and its impact on the debt of companies. The theoretical models developed over the conceptual framework of this study are applied to a range of companies both in Chile and Spain for the period 1991-2001. In order to empirically test the thesis proposal, it has opted for a framework that considers the data analysis through the methodology of panel data. This methodology, detailed in Chapter III, allows us to control the heterogeneity of the firms on an individual basis, along with the use of instrumental variables that allow us to solve the problems that are commonly endogeneity in business studies. Among the major findings highlighted in the first place, so different from what occurred in the empirical work for the market-oriented countries in the countries of our samples show that the existence of opportunities for growth increases the level of debt. However, when talking about the ownership of debt and growth opportunities are differences in financing through bank debt for both countries. For Chilean companies showed a negative relationship between growth opportunities and the level of bank debt, while for Spanish companies that relationship is positive. Secondly, in both contexts are observed differences in the use of the maturity of bank debt as a mechanism of corporate governance. Thirdly, there is a differential behavior in the recurrence of debt for l 8 as busine 95e sas Chilean and Spanish depending on the concentration of ownership. The greatest concentration of ownership of Chilean companies guiding the conduct of managers on the basis of the interests of shareholders, which reduces the barriers for access to outside sources of funding. However, in the case of Spanish companies, it is observed that the highest concentration of ownership creates problems expropriation of the wealth of minority shareholders, which restricts access to credit. Finally, when there is shortage of funds for the financing of portfolio investment, both companies in Chile and in Spain tend to use bank debt to finance growth opportunities. In conclusion, the thesis proposal demonstrates that the study of funding decisions of firms under a scheme imperfection of the market, not only factors should be considered by business theory postulates positive for the agency and the information asymmetries; but they must also be taken into consideration the characteristics of the institutional settings where these decisions are made. In this regard, assumptions traditionally made for countries with market orientation as the Anglo-Saxons can not be extrapolated directly to those countries most bancarizados as our samples. Moreover, we note that even for those countries belonging to the same legal root, its particular characteristics and the geopolitical context where development is also affected differently to the decision of indebtedness analyzed in this research.

Author: MARIN RIVES JOAQUIN LONGINOS.
Year: 2005.
University: MURCIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONOMIA Y EMPRESA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE ECONOMIA Y EMPRESA.

Summary: In the tough competition for success in a market characterized by the proliferation of products and brands, companies try to build lasting relationships with their customers, intense and full of meaning. Some even make their customers not only loyal buyers, but enthusiastic promoters or sellers of the same individuals for whom the relationship with the company is so important that explains part of their identity. They called recently in marketing as relations between business and consumer identification, and the objective of this thesis is to explore how dependent relationships identification contexts consumption and what are the implications for consumer behavior. Building support the theory of social identity, the study applied to relations consumer identification of the basic principles discussed in the organizational level. In the first part of the work to define conceptually identification between company and consumer and its differences from other concepts traditionally used in the literature on marketing and consumer behavior. The second part presents a conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of identification, which is contrasted with a sample of 400 consumers using the methodology of real structural equations. The third section discusses the role of the relevance of the identity of the company in the identification of the consumer. The fourth part is another empirical study, in this case with experimental design to determine the role of identification in decisions launch new products by the company as a brand extension or alliance. Thanks to the use of a sample of 380 consumers only demonstrates the different consumer behavior more and less identified with the company in evaluating new products. The last part presents the conclusions of the work, their contributions to business practice and future lines of inquiry.

Author: Abuamria Faeyz M.J.
Year: 2005.
University: GRANADA.
Place of defense: Fac. CC.EE, dep. de teor. e hist. econ..
Place of preparation: Teoría e historia económica.

Summary: Over the last twenty years there had been a massive growth of Islamic finance in Muslim countries and around the world. The broad macroeconomic and structural reforms in the financial system, the liberalization of capital movements, the global integration of financial markets and the introduction of innovative Islamic products, positively affected this growth. This research is to define the Islamic banking system. Explaining its mechanisms of operation and to account for their affinities and differences with the conventional banking system. Moreover, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of the Islamic banks and the extent to which they are able to compete in financial markets, taking into account the scarcity of studies in this field.

Author: SANCHEZ VIDAL F. JAVIER.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CARTAGENA.
Place of defense: E U DE INGENIERIA TECNICA CIVIL.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EMPRESARIALES, UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE CARTAGENA.

Summary: This thesis consists of three essays whose common theme is corporate finance. The first job is entitled Preferences Financing of the Spanish companies: new evidence for the theory of the hierarchy, the second Determinants of financial conservatism of Spanish companies and the third age and size corporate and financial lifecycle. First trial. This paper discusses some of the implications of the theory of financial Hierarchy for the Spanish market in a sample of panel data of 1566 companies for the period 1994-2000. The results show that compliance with the theory of the hierarchy for most of the sub-samples analyzed, in particular for small and medium enterprises and businesses in high growth and high debt. It also notes that the most and least indebted companies tend to converge towards more moderate levels of debt. Finally it is noted that companies tend to finance their financial deficit with long-term debt. Second trial. The objective of this paper is to analyze the factors by which a company follows a conservative financial policy or low debt for two consecutive years. It carries out the survey with a sample of 4,865 companies for the period 1993-2003 and logit regression analysis and different mean differences were testa the influence of several variables related to the theory of optimal financial structure, and informational asymmetries the theory of financial hierarchy. The evidence shows that companies have a conservative financial structure determined by the cash-flows generated and investments in tangible and intangible assets, which would be consistent with the theory of the hierarchy, as well as informational asymmetries. The results are in most cases contrary to the theory of optimal financial structure. Third trial. This work seeks to contrast if they serve some of the implications of empirical lifecycle financial raised by Berger and Udell (1998). It carries out the survey with a sample of 137,337 cases empresa-año apportioned over the period 1993-2003 and tests ANOVAs were contrasted various scenarios. The evidence shows that companies tend to increase own funds with the passage of time, thus decreasing the ratio of external resources, due to the accumulation of retained profits. This result is contrary to the hypothesis put forward. The results concerning the use of commercial credit, short-term financial debt and the financial deficit not lend support to the assumptions made, and that sometimes the evidence is mixed and other contrary to the hypothesis. Only the results relating to the risk of the company are consistent with the assumptions made, it noted that the decreases with the size and, above all, with age.

Author: ESCUDERO RODRÍGUEZ BIBIANA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE C. ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Author: Pintér Ágnes.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: D. d'Economia i d'Historia Econòmica.
Place of preparation: UAB.

Summary: In my thesis I consider some aspects of experimental economics that have not been studied through yet. Experimental economics can be seen as one of the tools that play an important role in helping game theory bridge the gap between the study of ideally rational behavior modeled in theory and the study of actual "real-world" behavior of agents. One of the fields where experimental economics can help theorists is the class of situations that can be modeled by coordination games. The second chapter, a joint work with Jordi Brandts, entitled "The Way out of the Trap: Experiments on Dynamic Coordination Games" contributes to the experimental literature on development economics. Underdevelopment is often seen as the result of coordination failure between different parts of the economy. Positive agglomeration economies may imply that no one sector of the economy can develop alone; instead, coordinated development of many economic activities is required for a country to achieve greater prosperity. In this paper we analyze through laboratory experiments a dynamic two-sector investment model, in which moving between a traditional and a modern sector has a fixed cost, and in one of the sectors the positive agglomeration externalities manifest themselves with a time lag. Under these conditions the model exhibits multiple---Pareto rankable---equilibria, and both complete stagnation and immediate development are stable equilibria of the dynamic game, independently of the cost and delay. However, our results show that both the cost structure and the time lag in the returns has an important impact on the destiny of the experimental economies. This confirms the empirical fact that the presence of the time lag in the realization of the returns strengthens history dependence, but, on the other hand it does not necessarily prevent the full coordination on modernization, the economy can find a way out of the (poverty) trap. The third chapter, a joint paper with Joana Pais with the title "School Choice and Information: An Experimental Study on Matching Mechanisms", explores a different issue. In this paper we concentrate on the characterization of some matching mechanisms under certainty and (partial) uncertainty. Matching is a pervasive phenomenon arising in several economic and social settings. The assignment of civil servants to civil service positions, the admission of students to colleges, or some entry-level labor markets are among the matching situations that have gained attention in the last decades. Strategy-proofness, stability, and efficiency of such mechanisms are highly valued properties. We analyze three well-known matching mechanisms---the Boston, the Gale-Shapley, and the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanisms---under three informational settings, and we pose two main questions. First, we compare the individual decisions regarding truthtelling and efficiency under the three mechanisms. The comparison of the mechanisms suggests the superiority of the TTC mechanism: although regarding the truthful preference revelation it may give similar results as the Gale-Shapley mechanism, in the achieved efficiency level the TTC mechanism performs clearly better than either the Boston or the Gale-Shapley mechanism. Our second aim is to evaluate the influence of the amount of information held by the individuals on their decisions, under the three matching mechanisms. Our results show that if participants only know their own induced preferences, they are more likely to play truthfully than in case of having additional information. This results also in higher efficiency, except under the TTC mechanism, where the additional amount of information has no significant negative effect on the achieved efficiency. This means that the TTC mechanism results less sensitive to the amount of information, therefore, we conclude that the use of the TTC mechanism in practice would be more desirable than of the others. As a continuation, in the last chapter---"College Admissions and Information: An Experimental Study"---I consider the so called college admissions problem, where the agents of both sides of the matching market can manipulate their preferences. As in the third chapter, in this paper I analyze the effects of information on decisions regarding truthfulness, efficiency, and 8 stabili 5ae ty, but now in both sides of the market. In this paper I study two matching mechanisms---the Gale-Shapley, and the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanisms---in different informational scenarios. My results---consistently with theory---suggest that the Gale-Shapley mechanism outperforms the TTC mechanism in terms of efficiency, and it is as successful as the TTC mechanism regarding the proportion of truthful play. In addition, I find that information has an important effect on both truthfulness and stability, but regarding efficiency, the Gale-Shapley mechanism is less sensitive to the amount of information than the TTC mechanism. Therefore, in the college admissions situations the use of the Gale-Shapley mechanism is more desirable.

Author: ARMAS CRUZ YAIZA DEL MAR.
Year: 2005.
University: LA LAGUNA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA.

Summary: ENVIRONMENT HAS AWAKENED IN THE LATEST DÉCADAS A GROWING CONCERN BY THE SOCIETY, PASANDO TO BECOME AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF NATURE. THE SAME, IMPONE RESTRICTIONS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE COMPANY THAT MUST ADAPTARSE TO CHANGES FROM THE ENVIRONMENT. FELT IN THIS, ONE OF THE MAIN CONCERNS FOR PUTTING MANIFESTO IN LITERATURE IS THE ANALYSIS OF DETERMINANTS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE COMPANY THAT HAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRACTICES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. FELT IN THIS, THIS WORK TO DETERMINE THE AIM OF THE IMPACT OF THE REFERRED TO ACTION AT THE CORPORATE RESULTS FOR THE EVENT OF AN INDUSTRY ESCASAMENTE ANALIZADO FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE IN THE ECONOMY AND VITAL CANARIA HOW IS THE HOTEL. THROUGH AN ANALYSIS WITH STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS MODELS ARE EXTRAEN CONCLUSIONS ON THE SENSE, SIGN AND INTENSITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

Author: MARTÍN PÉREZ VICTOR MANUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: VALLADOLID.
Place of defense: ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID.

Summary: The agency theory has been applied in the business sector to improve the internal organization of firms and implement control mechanisms to reduce opportunistic behavior, and pro therefore improve the alignment of goals of different participants, and thereby efficiency. However, its extension to non-profit organizations (ENL) has been greeted with reluctance, given that philanthropy and altruism that characterizes its participants were considered insurmountable barriers for the development of opportunistic behavior. While these reasons can act favoring the alignment of interests, it is hard to imagine that human beings can become a perfect agent who lacks a minimum of selfishness that leads him to look for specific purposes, which shows that the behaviors are opportunistic in ENL possible, so the theory of the agency is presented as a theoretical framework that can provide adequate responses and discuss the internal organization with greater rigor that mucnos of previous work that have attempted to address this issue in part and without a theoretical framework defined. In an environment in which ENL handle an increasing amount of resources and employ an increasing number of individuals, it is essential that these organizations provide a balanced architecture that enables them to obtain optimum use of their resources, improving their transparency and trust aroused in society. You need to delegate authority, ie that they are individuals who have the relevant knowledge and information to take the appropriate decisions within the organization. By delegating authority and allow an individual to decide on the use of resources that are not his property, there should be a package of incentives that align their goals with those of the organization of which it forms part, avoiding opportunistic behavior, ie the incentives should motivate the agent to utilize those resources for the benefit of the organization. To provide incentives expected results depends on its relationship with a number of measures of performance assessment of the individual, so as to reward desired behaviors and penalize those who only pursue self-interest. Moreover, in delegating authority also need to be made available performance indicators to assign responsibility for the results of the decisions and actions taken. As a result, an organization that has been equipped with a balanced architecture will be able to achieve higher levels of efficiency. The objective of this thesis is to assess the balance of the organizational architecture of the ENL, verifying if the decisions of delegation of authority, implementation of incentive systems and the use of performance assessment measures were taken simultaneously in the sense proposed by the theory of agency. To this end, we raised a model that incorporates this triple interrelationships, which complement model with the inclusion of a set of internal factors of the organization that influence the balance of the three components of the nuclear organizational architecture. Finally, we analyze whether those organizations that have a more balanced architecture obtain better standards of efficiency, calculating efficiency through the methodology of the analysis of data envelope (DEA). Using a sample composed of the main NGOs for Development (NGDOs) Spanish contrast assumptions that derive from our model, getting some results that show the importance of balance in the organizational architecture pair 8 to the bue 327 No functioning of these organizations, it allows us to draw a number of valuable implications for the management of ENL that result in greater efficiency.

Author: KALLAS ZEIN.
Year: 2005.
University: VALLADOLID.
Place of defense: E.T.S.INGENIERÍAS AGRARIAS.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA TÉNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIERÍA AGRARIA.

Summary: The multifunctional agriculture is the recognition of the joint exercise by this sector of economic, environmental and social. However, not all of these contributions to society as a whole are valued at market, but much of them are public property. For this reason, to this concept of multifunctionality could be used operationally in the design of public policies that improve the collective welfare, it is necessary to estimate in advance the social demand for such functions. This investigation has two main objectives. The first, methodological, is the development of a new methodology for valuation of assets "complex" (characterized by different attributes), as is multifunctional agriculture. It intends to use the jointly Contingent Value (VC) and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). It also seeks to make a comparative analysis between the new valuation and technical experiments choice (EE), currently most widespread technique for the assessment of such property "complex". This is evidence of the potential and limitations of each. The second objective, empirical, is the practical application of both techniques for estimating value of the social demand for multifunctional agriculture. This was taken as a case study of the agrarian system of cereal steppes of the county Natural Earth Fields (Castilla y Leon), predominantly rural area representative of the case and extensive agriculture to the brink of marginality. The results show that the United methodological prove to be the most appropriate method for valuing individual attributes that make up multifunctional agriculture. By contrast, VC is the most appropriate for the valuation of all the goods and services that are not trade this concept. The empirical results show that there is a social demand for the significant improvement in the provision of such goods from non-commercial agriculture in the study area. This demand presents a major internal heterogeneity in terms of the socio-economic characteristics of individuals, both in the joint assessment of the multifunctionality of each of the functions involved. Keywords: Multifunctional Agricultural Agricultural Policy, Economic Assessment, experiments Election Contingent Value, Process Analytical Hierarchical, Castilla y Leon

Author: BEYER BARRIENTOS JORGE HUMBERTO.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID.
Place of defense: ETSI CAMINOS, CANALES Y PUERTOS.
Place of preparation: ETSI CAMINOS, CANALES Y PUERTOS.

Summary: This doctoral thesis deals with certain aspects related to maritime port in Chile to particularity. It describes the current status of the port system in Chile, referring to its geographical location, political and economic. It also performs an outline of the current decision-making process on the location of port infrastructure. It outlines through graphical models, some concepts which partly explain the evolutionary processes of distribution of ports. It also discusses the possibilities for Chile to make improvements in some aspects relating to efficiency in the transportation system, particularly in the transfer of goods from the sea to land mode, and vice versa. In the world there is experience in A-discipline research operations. B-linear programming techniques to Multicriteria problems, which may support the proposal for a methodology for determining the location of port infrastructure, which is the aim of this thesis. It integrates information regarding the factors considered in the location decisions of port infrastructure, sintetizándolos in a computer system. It presents an application of this methodology for a case in the Eighth Region of Chile. For data validation and contrast results are used to compare one case and real sector statistics that indicate their proper construction and their reliability in subsequent uses. The paper outlines the findings and recommendations, future lines of research and literature.

Author: NUÑEZ CARRASCO JUAN ANIBAL.
Year: 2005.
University: MÁLAGA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES - UMA.

Summary: This thesis deals with the study of consumer behavior and saver of young households headed by a supportive principal with age between 25 and 34 years of age. Used to this cross section data from the baseline survey of household budgets, in their cuts 1980-81 and 1990-91. It notes the existence of a distinct consumer behavior for this group of people, reflected in a lower level of consumption and a lower marginal propensity to consume from the permanent income. On the other hand, when the group is divided into two subgroups youth homes, it is noted that the closer to maturity, take into account the expected future income increased their consumption at present, while the youngest is not anticipated in their decisions of the largest consumer goods future income. Finally, we get that for households young, verifies the existence of a positive relationship between the savings rate and the growth rate of household income.

Author: SMITH PATRICIA JANE.
Year: 2005.
University: RAMÓN LLULL.
Place of defense: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.

Author: ACOSTA FLAMMA CHRISTIAN.
Year: 2005.
University: RAMÓN LLULL.
Place of defense: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.

Summary: This draft doctoral thesis explores the usefulness of analyzing business performance by combining a vision of human resources based on the net with the characteristics of strategic human resources. In addressing issues related to the efficiency and effectiveness of human resources, and the final results, introduces and implements the model of Lifecycle Adoption of Technology (TALC) (Moore, 2001). This helps to put the conduct of adoption of professional manpower in the TALC, when or during which categorizes the human resources functions and the system of human resource management (HRMS). The scheme helps to better understand the relationship between information technology and human resource strategic issues of human resources. These applications of web-based HRMS subsequently used to highlight new strategic options for human resources, which are derived from natural form of the potential synergies resulting from combining strategy, human resources functions and the prospect of technologies information. Due to the conceptual and operational complexity of defining and measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of human resources to assess their contribution to organizational performance, presents the multiple relationships that can explain this phenomenon. The central hypothesis considers that the correct application of the technologies HRMS should release resources (a kind of in-sourcing technology in the enterprise), which would provide more time for human resource personnel to focus on strategic issues and the effectiveness of organization. To test these hypotheses, was conducted an online survey, in collaboration with SAP AG, a multinational software company based in Germany, which offered a solution to Human Capital Management (mySAP ERP HCM) as a major component of its software Planning Resources Company (mySAP ERP). Participated in the study a total of 197 companies, 69.9% of them with more than 5,000 workers, belonging to 22 different countries from North America and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The data were supplemented by human resource professionals, managers of human resources systems, senior human resource executives and other senior executives experts in the field, who were familiar with issues relating to the Management Information Systems (MIS) and Human Resources. As a result, won Lifecycle Adoption Technology Human Resources (HR-TALC) and are grouped into five broad categories: 1-Laggards or behind (skeptics) 2, Late Majority - or late majority (Conservatives ) 3-Early Majority or early majority (pragmatics) 4-Early Adopters or early adopters (visionaries) 5-Innovators or innovative (technology enthusiasts) used a series of ANOVA, multiple regression techniques and quantitative classification, the main hypotheses to be tested and subhipótesis partner. In general, our results show a significant consensus in the views of respondents about the perceived impact of the innovative solution mySAP ERP HCM: 1 - The operating performance, 2-performing workers, 3-Effective department of Human Resources, 4-effectiveness of the organization 5 - The activities of the company, 6 - The activities of human resource consulting, 7-Cost control, 8-redesign process, 9-Solving conflicts 10, - business collaboration, 11-involvement in the programs of human resources, 12-Coaching workers and managers, 13-line contribution in achieving organizational results.

Author: NIETO SANTA JAVIER IGNACIO.
Year: 2005.
University: RAMÓN LLULL.
Place of defense: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS ESADE.

Summary: Reading historiológica of Policy Management from the eighteenth century (Industrial Revolution) until the beginning of the twenty-first century (knowledge economy), where authors are reviewed and schools and made an interpretative model of discipline as if it were a succession of three paradigms the structure of the (theory of organization), from the S. XVIII until the 1960s, the strategy of the (company policy), from the 1960s until the late S. XX, and the knowledge (Policy Management), from the last third of S. XX until today. KEYWORDS Theory of Organization: enterprise policy, policy management, history of management, business history, structure, strategy, knowledge management authors.

Author: VERDAGUER PUJADAS NARCÍS.
Year: 2005.
University: GIRONA.
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE GIRONA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA.

Author: VERDAGUER PUJADAS NARCÍS.
Year: 2005.
University: GIRONA.
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE GIRONA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA.

Author: CASSÚ SERRA ELVIRA.
Year: 2005.
University: GIRONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE GIRONA.

Summary: In the area of promoting construction, especially in the subsector of promoting housing construction, the employer must have a good knowledge of the environment variables and that consideration of them will be critical to making decisions about planning strategically. In our country, as elsewhere in Europe, we live a phase of socio-economic changes that make it difficult to forecast future behavior of the environment variables. Therefore, the subject is decisor in an atmosphere of uncertainty is heightened by the majority presence of qualitative factors are difficult to quantify. Then, the employer promoter builder must go to the technical and operational management bear this situation and this will be possible from the tools offered by the fuzzy logic. This thesis is structured in three parts. In the first part, set out the specifics and developments in the sector and gracious promotion of housing construction in general, and more particularly, in the city of Girona. In the second part, we explained the principal foundations of the theory of fuzzy subsets together with the input from various operational techniques that will be useful to us in the subsequent treatment of problems associated with decision-making and business management sector promotion and construction. Finally, in the third part, exposing various applications of the methodology blurred for the establishment of new management strategies applied to the sector under consideration.