• Chinese international students' social network sites usages and their process of intercultural adaptation in Barcelona

  Zhou, Siyu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-02-06)

  In recent decades, the development of digital technology has reshaped the way of social interaction as well as social relationships for international students. With the advent of the internet in recent decades, social ...
• Essays on board of directors composition and firm outcomes

  Manini, Raffaele (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-02-06)

  This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...
• Assessing the impact of music recommendation diversity on listeners

  Porcaro, Lorenzo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-02-06)

  This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, because the world music ...
• Three essays in applied econometrics

  Werner, Konstantin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-02-06)

  In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of the former East German secret service, the ...
• Mainstream music in the postmodern scenario: an analysis of sexuality, well-being, and racialization

  Alvarez-Cueva, Priscila (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-02-06)

  This research uses mainstream music scenarios in Spain to explore its representations and problematize them from a critical gender perspective. Structured by four items, this work 1) situates mainstream music within the ...

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