Title:Mediation and protest movements
Author(s):CAMMAERTS, Bart; MATTONI, Alice; MCCURDY, PatrickDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection ...
Title:Quantitative analysis of energy markets
Author(s):GIANFREDA, Angelica; GROSSI, LuigiDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:The papers included in this special issue have been selected among those independently submitted and those presented at the International Workshop QAoEM “Quantitative Analysis of Energy Markets” held in Verona (Italy) in ...
Title:The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots
Author(s):LAUKYTE, MigleDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
Title:Subnational parliaments in EU policy control : explaining the variations across Europe
Author(s):BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, KarolinaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The inclusion of subnational parliaments into the Early Warning System for subsidiarity control has generated transforming dynamics in the parliamentary modus operandi in EU decentralized systems. The empirical findings ...
Title:Structural vector autoregressions with Markov switching : identification via heteroskedasticity
Author(s):NETŠUNAJEV, AlekseiDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Structural vector autoregressions are of great importance in applied macroeconometric work. The main di culty associated with structural analysis is to identify unique shocks of interest. In a conventional approach this ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics and finance
Author(s):IANCU, Emanuela MariaDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The topics covered in this paper cover a broad range of subjects, from a reputation system in a discrete and infinite time model over to a three period game on a network and concluding with the optimal default decision in ...
Title:Intermediation and leadership : essays on the economics of networks
Author(s):SIEDLAREK, Jan-PeterDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis offers a contribution to the economic literature applying a networks perspective to economic issues. The focus of my thesis is the role of agents that are in particularly prominent positions within networks and ...
Title:Labor force composition and aggregate fluctuations
Author(s):MENNUNI, AlessandroDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Labor composition by gender, age, and education has undergone dramatic changes over the last forty years in the United States. Furthermore, the volatility of total market hours differs systematically between genders, age ...
Title:Advances in the visual analysis of social movements
Author(s):DOERR, Nicole; MATTONI, Alice; TEUNE, SimonDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:This special issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change highlights the importance of visuals in the current study of social movements. It is indispensable reading as it introduces new analytical concepts ...
Title:Institutionalizations compared : implementing the EU’s 2008 wine reform
Author(s):ITÇAINA, Xabier; ROGER, Antoine; SMITH, AndyDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:In 2008 the European Union adopted an apparently radical reform of its wine policy. However, whether this policy change actually reinstitutionalizes the regulation of this industry is dependent on how it is implemented and ...
Title:Introduction : an emerging field
Author(s):LANGFORD, Malcolm; VANDENHOLE, Wouter; SCHEININ, Martin; VAN GENUGTEN, WillemDate:2013Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Changing rules of delegation : a contest for power in comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, Catherine; BISCHOFF, Carina S.; BERGSTRÖM, Carl-FredrikDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out ...
Title:A survey of econometric methods for mixed-frequency data
Author(s):FORONI, Claudia; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The development of models for variables sampled at different frequencies has attracted substantial interest in the recent econometric literature. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common techniques, including ...
Title:A concept of the global to conceive global governance : four metaphorical proposals
Author(s):INNERARITY, DanielDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper suggests four metaphors to correct our habitual way of thinking about globalization. It begins with the idea that the world can be understood more effectively based on the properties of gases, rather than liquids; ...
Title:European networking and training for national competition enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011) : selected case notes
Author(s):MONTI, Giorgio; PARCU, Pier LuigiDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The working paper includes a collection of the case notes written by the national judges who attended the European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011). The training program was organized ...