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Theses, university coursework and independent work, grouped by areaareadate.
Variance decomposition of cross-country crypto adoption: 28 determinants, 144 countries, relative-importance routines implemented in MATLAB.
2024 - 2025, Cross-country empirical study, supervisor Prof. Vicente Ríos Ibáñez
Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve on a 141-country cross-section of material consumption and material footprint.
Dec 2024, Econometric, empirical research project
Heterogeneous firms and how industries evolve; technological paradigms and trajectories, the economics of patents, and innovation patterns across sectors.
Feb 2026, Written essays in evolutionary economics
A reading of Stiglitz on the origins of inequality, with Piketty and Sartori alongside: which inequality we are talking about, and which policies follow from it.
May 2023, Essay on a paper by Joseph Stiglitz
Fifteen classical and stochastic models over market, macro and on-chain series, to ask whether the cycle bottom is in, at what level and when. Planned, directed and tested by me; the code was written with Gemini Pro.
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026, Quantitative finance study
Reformulated statements for 2021 to 2023, profitability and credit risk, multiples and a discounted cash flow, closing with a recommendation to the board.
May 2024, Corporate finance: statement analysis and equity valuation
The EU regulation on crypto-assets read title by title, and three UN sustainability targets it could serve: credit for small firms, access to financial services, cheaper remittances.
May 2026, EU crypto regulation and sustainability goals
Democracy inside blockchains, reading how Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tezos, Dfinity, Decred and EOS govern themselves, and blockchains inside a democracy.
Nov 2022, Blockchain governance and democratic theory, supervisor Prof. Antonio Masala
What FTX was, the ten days of November 2022 that brought it down, and where a failure like this lands in United States bankruptcy law.
Nov 2023, Case study on a bankruptcy
A mini business plan for a luxury real estate agency: a service that handles the restoration of listed properties, with market analysis and projections.
May 2024, Business plan for a real estate company
How LEGO entered markets and adapted its brand country by country, and how its Replay recycling programme compares with the one run by Hasbro.
May 2024, Case study on internationalization and brand
A VRIO and SWOT reading of a small street food business, to choose which of the two markets it should grow into.
Nov 2022, Strategy case study
The retail board game of Gwent is unbalanced by design. Sources, community and team opinions, and a full set of house rules for factions, cards and deck building.
Jan 2026 - Feb 2026, House rules for a board game