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Title: Trade Roundtable Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, Vital Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...

Title: Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders Author(s): SCHEININ, Martin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The ...

Title: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes Author(s): HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, Stephen Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: 2011/03 Abstract: This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching ...

Title: Keeping Government Secrecy Safe: Beyond Whack-a-Mole Author(s): CURTIN, Deirdre Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The concept of secrecy as a mechanism for not providing government information, on the one hand, and the commitment to openness of government, on the other, reflect certain historical understandings of the relationship ...

Title: "My brain made me do it" (when neuroscientists think they can do philosophy) Author(s): DENNETT, Daniel C. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Some philosophers and neuroscientists have recently been saying that science shows that we don't have free will, but it turns out that this claim-which would be bad news if true-is due to misrepresentation and misinterpretation. ...

Title: Laws and Norms Author(s): BENABOU, Roland; TIROLE, Jean Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first ...

Title: Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective Author(s): POMERANZ, Kenneth Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Looked at in comparative perspective, among the most striking features of Qing political economy are the combination of highly commercialized agriculture with the strength of peasant land use rights – both through smallholding ...

Title: The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: Obama's Libyan Intervention Author(s): ACKERMAN, Bruce Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The lecture traces a series of political, bureaucratic, and military transformations that have, over the past forty years, transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for charismatic extremism and ...

Title: Optimal Currency Area Revisited Author(s): MERSCH, Yves Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS DL Abstract: Several euro area member states are under increased market scrutiny although public finances in the euro area as a bloc are in a much better shape than in the US or Japan. The main reason is that the euro area is an alliance ...

Title: Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequality Author(s): ROSANVALLON, Pierre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: We live in a time of counter-revolution. Since the 1980s, reversing a century-old trend towards fewer inequalities, the richest among us have kept accumulating revenues and possessions. The economic and social roots of ...

Title: An EU Agenda for Global Governance Author(s): POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; BARROSO, José Manuel Durão; BIERSTEKER, Thomas; CULPEPPER, Pepper D.; FARGUES, Philippe; HERITIER, Adrienne; KARAGIANNIS, Yannis; HILL, Christopher; KLEIN, Nadia; WESSELS, Wolfgang; JAMES, Harold; MORAVCSIK, Andrew; NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; SIDJANSKI, Dusan; VINES, David Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP

Title: The Macroeconomic and Financial Landscape in the Aftermath of the 2007 Crisis: New Challenges and Perspectives Author(s): CARLETTI, Elena; CORSETTI, Giancarlo; SIMONELLI, Saverio; COOLEY, Thomas F.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; JAMES, Harold; GRAY, Joanna; O'CALLAGHAN,Patrick; ALLEN, Franklin; GUISO, Luigi Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The paper by Thomas Cooley (New York University) discusses the challenges for the European Central Bank in the current situation both in terms of long term fiscal adjustments and of potential fragility of the European ...

Title: International Trade Observatory (ITO): Trade Roundtable Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; HORN, Henrik; MESSERLIN, Patrick; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; SAPIR, André Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round is going through tough times and at this stage it is impossible to predict its outcome. This is the central message coming from the meeting held on February 4, 2011 at EUI (RSCAS). For reasons having to do ...

Title: The Crisis in Context: Democratic capitalism and its contradictions Author(s): STREECK, Wolfgang Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The “financial crisis” and its sequel, the current sovereign debt crisis, appear to be the latest permutations of an old conflict between capitalism and democracy that forcefully reasserted itself after the end of the ...

Title: European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights Author(s): SCHEININ, Martin; SCHEININ, Martin; BARRETT, Richard; MURPHY, Cian C.; ROACH, Kent; ROY, Olivier; LANE SCHEPPELE, Kim Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: On 15 March 2011 the Global Governance Programme at the EUI hosted a High-Level Policy Seminar (HLPS) on "European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights". The first part of the ...

Title: Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities Author(s): WALDRON, Jeremy Date: 2010-10-28 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ...

Title: Is Contract Law Necessary? Author(s): SCHWARTZ, Alan Date: 2010-10-22 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This Lecture argues that much of the contract law in the cases (the US, the UK and Canada) and in the codes (Europe and Latin America) is unnecessary. To say that a law is unnecessary is to say that it does not perform a ...

Title: "Against Accountability" Author(s): MANSBRIDGE, Jane Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: Although relatively corrupt regimes require citizen monitoring and accountability enforced by the threat of sanction, this kind of relationship between citizens and their agents is inefficient and normatively unsatisfying. ...

Title: The Lure of Authority Author(s): FEHR, Ernst Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: Power and authority permeate political, social and economic life but still little is known empirically about the origins and consequences of authority. In this paper we tackle this question experimentally by implementing ...

Title: Accountability and European Governance Author(s): CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, Yannis Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other

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