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    Title: Essays on Stability of the Classical Gold Standard: Money supply, international capital mobility and symmetry of business cycles  Author(s): LESSIG, Jyrki Johannes Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The three essays of the thesis have the common topic of monetary integration and financial instability in Europe during the period of precious metal standard in the second half of the 19th century. The first essay discusses ...
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    Title: On the Measurement of Welfare, Happiness and Inequality  Author(s): RYNKO, Maja Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis addresses welfare measurement issues, with an emphasis on the measurement of happiness and inequality. It contributes to the economic literature in both methodological and empirical terms, with the empirical ...
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    Title: Soviet Internationalism after Stalin: The USSR and Latin America in the Cultural Cold War  Author(s): RUPPRECHT, Tobias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis, an entangled history of the Soviet Union and Latin America from the 1950s through the 1970s, explores Soviet internationalism as it re-emerged after the self-inflicted isolation of the USSR during late Stalinism. ...
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    Title: Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The autonomous movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s  Author(s): VAN DER STEEN, Bart Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The years 1980-1981 witnessed youth revolts all over Western Europe. Influenced by radical politics and punk subculture, youths squatted houses and demanded autonomous, self-managed youth centres and clashed with the police. ...
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    Title: A Time for Pride and Prejudice: Anglo-American relations at the UN during the Congo crisis, 1960-1965  Author(s): O'MALLEY, Alanna Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis examines the Anglo-American relationship at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964. The United Nations headquarters in New York became a focal point for British and American foreign policies ...
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    Title: Financial Constraints, Financial Shocks, and Business Cycle Accounting  Author(s): RIMARCHI, Massimiliano Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis features three closely related chapters investigating the role of the investment wedge in affecting macroeconomic fluctuations. The first chapter shows that the Business Cycle Accounting (BCA) methodology is ...
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    Title: Banking across Borders: Evidence and implications  Author(s): NIEPMANN, Friederike Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis sheds light on the motives, the nature and the implications of banking across borders. In Chapter 1, co-authored with Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, I examine the challenges that increased financial integration presents ...
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    Title: The Impacts of Housing Derivatives Trading on the Housing Market  Author(s): ULUC, Arzu Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Housing is the largest asset class in the world. However, in contrast to other major asset classes, including stocks and bonds, it does not have a well-developed derivatives market. In fact, housing derivatives can provide ...
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    Title: Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of resistance and opposition during the Cold War era  Author(s): STÖCKER, Lars Fredrik Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Located at the point of intersection of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic Sea Region has historically been a setting of an, at times, vivid exchange between the shores of the small inland sea. Challenging ...
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    Title: The Unexplored Giant: Use histories of Italian oratorio around 1700  Author(s): VAN DER LINDEN, Huub Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The musical genre of Italian oratorio—unacted, sung drama in two parts on a hagiographic, biblical, or moral plot—witnessed a great boom of interest in the priod around years around 1900 and the decades around 1700. During ...
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    Title: Casanova's Histoire de ma vie in Twentieth Century Cinema (Adaptation, Interpretation, Reception from Volkoff to Fellini)  Author(s): GUBAREVA, Marita Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Casanova’s memoirs have inspired an incredible number of books, commentaries, and creative reinterpretations. While the reception of this text in literature has been analyzed in many studies, relatively little attention ...
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    Title: The Jews of Modern Egypt: Schools, family, and the making of an imagined bourgeoise, 1880s-1950s  Author(s): MICCOLI, Dario Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation will investigate the emergence of an Egyptian Jewish bourgeoisie and its multi-layered imaginary in the period that goes from the 1880s up to the 1950s. More precisely, the research will aim to clarify ...
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    Title: Digital Inequalities as Class Inequalities? A comparison of youth in advanced societies in-and outside Europe  Author(s): DRABOWICZ, Tomasz Piotr Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This dissertation merges two streams of research hitherto rarely mixed together: class analysis and digital inequality studies. It also focuses on the comparative research of adolescents from advanced societies – a social ...
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    Title: Econometric Models for Mixed-Frequency Data  Author(s): FORONI, Claudia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis addresses different issues related to the use of mixed-frequency data. In the first chapter, I review, discuss and compare the main approaches proposed so far in the literature to deal with mixed-frequency data, ...
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    Title: Voting Smarter? The impact of voting advice applications on political behavior  Author(s): VASSIL, Kristjan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) proliferate across Europe and beyond. By matching the political offer with voters’ preferences, these internet applications assist voters in their decisions. However, despite the growing ...
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    Title: The Constitutional Architecture of EU Peacebuilding for Law Enforcement Institutions: Legality and accountability  Author(s): SPERNBAUER, Martina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This research first sets out to verify whether the measures in the EU’s peacebuilding toolbox indeed turn out to have converging objectives, an overlapping scope and provide for similar activities across the CFSP / non-CFSP ...
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    Title: The Retreat From a Market Economy in East-Central and Southeast Europe, 1918-1928: Comparative perspectives on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia  Author(s): MILETIC, Aleksandar R. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The dissertation before you is designed as a contribution to studies of phenomena that have been described either as the “recasting” of 19th century capitalism, or as the “deglobalization” of the global economy after 1914. ...
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    Title: Essays on Sovereign Default and the Link with the Domestic Economy  Author(s): ANDREASEN, Eugenia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis studies the causes and consequences of sovereign defaults focusing on non traditional links between sovereign default and the domestic economy: the impact of sovereign defaults on the external financial conditions ...
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    Title: An Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Pharmaceutical Markets  Author(s): SAURÍ, Lluís Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Regulation in pharmaceutical markets is pervasive in most countries, especially in Europe. The nature of existing regulations is diverse, as they serve a number of purposes: guaranteeing safety, efficacy and security of ...
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    Title: Moment Condition Models in Empirical Economics  Author(s): RISCADO, Sara Maria de Almeida Duarte Lopes Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: In the first chapter of this dissertation, we approach the estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models through a moments-based estimator, the empirical likelihood. We try to show that this inference process ...