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Cantabria 1902-1923
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 174

Cantabria 1902-1923

Tras la frustrada experiencia democrática que supuso el Sexenio (1868-1874), con la Restauración borbónica se inaugura en España un nuevo régimen político. Este libro intenta descubrir la clave del sistema caciquil como modo de vida pública y de analizar la naturaleza de la vida política en la Cantabria del primer tercio del siglo XX.

The Politics of time. Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Politics of time. Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought

Carl Schmitt is the last thinker to provide a complete, original definition of politics. His work influences many debates in contemporary political theory through a collection of concepts he created: political theology, the katechon, friend and enemy. Despite how influential his ideas are, they tend to be employed metaphorically, and sometimes incorrectly. This miscalculation is due to Carl Schmitt himself, who never gave us a final, complete version of his political thought, or even of some of his most famous concepts. In this book, I aim to reconstruct his political thought using three key concepts: political theology, the concept of the political, and the theory of modernity. To do so, I have consulted all his published works, but also the archival documents, in particular those with ties to Spain, which had previously received little attention. This reconstruction offers readers a qualitative introduction to Schmitt’s political thought that aims to blend logical clarity with document-based evidence.

Totalitarianisms: The Closed Society and Its Friends. A History of Crossed Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Totalitarianisms: The Closed Society and Its Friends. A History of Crossed Languages

It is striking that the main political concept coined by the century of democracy has been totalitarianism. Since its birth in fascist Italy in the 1920s, the term has made a long journey throughout different countries and periods. After representing the fascination for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the ‘war of words’ waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was ‘a hot word for a Cold War’, as termed by the author of this book to convey the importance of this contest of crossed languages, which also included images, symbols and other forms of ‘senso-propaganda’. The Closed Society and Its Friend...

Prevention of antipsychotic-induced weight gain in young people with psychosis: a multi-modal psychological intervention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Prevention of antipsychotic-induced weight gain in young people with psychosis: a multi-modal psychological intervention

Primer volumen de la colección Books & Science que reedita en inglés a autores y textos de reconocido prestigio y calidad en sus respectivos campos del conocimiento. Aborda, bajo el prisma de diversas áreas, tanto los problemas psicológicos ocasionados por la ganancia de peso entre los jóvenes, las realidades de su tratamiento, consejos nutricionales, ejercicio físico, educación psicológica… como alternativas y su prevención.

Discrete Mathematics Days 2022
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Discrete Mathematics Days 2022

El congreso Discrete Mathematics Days (DMD20/22) tendrá lugar del 4 al 6 de julio de 2022, en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, España). Este congreso internacional se centra en avances dentro del campo de la Matemática discreta, incluyendo, de manera no exhaustiva: · Algoritmos y Complejidad · Combinatoria · Teoría de Códigos · Criptografía · Geometría Discreta y Computacional · Optimización Discreta · Teoría de Grafos · Problemas de localización discreta y temas relacionados Las ediciones anteriores de este evento se celebraros en Sevilla (2018) y Barcelona (2016), estos congresos heredan la tradición de las Jornadas de Matemática Discre...

Tensegrity Structures and their Application to Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Tensegrity Structures and their Application to Architecture

Tensegrity structures are really intriguing: bars floating in the air, without any contact to a solid support, attached only by wires to other bars… that are also floating in the air! The aim of this work is to serve as an introduction to such an atypical kind of structure. It tries to explain everything about the controversial origins and polemic fatherhood; tensegrities from various fields, other than Architecture, structural principles, characteristics, advantages and weakness; precedent and current works and patents; and finally, some new proposals, proving that it is possible to find some applications to architectural and engineering purposes. In conclusion, this work tries to be a guide and reference to a new world of structural possibilities that is blooming and finding its path.

Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Economics and Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Economics and Finance

This book adds to the resolution of two problems in finance and economics: i) what is macro-financial uncertainty? : How to measure it? How is it different from risk? How important is it for the financial markets? And ii) what sort of asymmetries underlie financial risk and uncertainty propagation across the global financial markets? That is, how risk and uncertainty change according to factors such as market states or market participants. In Chapter 2, which is entitled “Momentum Uncertainties”, the relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and the abnormal returns of a momentum trading strategy in the stock market is studies. We show that high levels of uncertainty in the economy ...

Modelling Systemic Risk in Financial Markets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

Modelling Systemic Risk in Financial Markets

This dissertation provides a study on systemic risk in financial markets; it is laid out as follows. Chapter 1 provides a survey of the quantitative measure of systemic risk in the economics and finance literature. In Chapter 2 examine, using conditional VaR (CoVaR), the systemic risk generated by major Spanish financial institutions in the recent global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis as a systemic risk measure. CoVaR was quantified using quantile regression, multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) and copula approaches. We also describe a novel copula-based approach to computing the CoVaR value, given that copula are flexible modellers of joint distribution and are particularly useful for characterizing the tail behaviour that provides such crucial information for the CoVaR.

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 90

Three Essays in Financial Markets. The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives: Options Trading and Firm Innovation

Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.