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Title:How important is the shock-absorbing role of the real exchange rate? Author(s):MASTEN, IgorDate:2002Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2002/06

Title:How important is tourism for the international transmission of cyclical fluctuations? : evidence from the Mediterranean Author(s):CANOVA, Fabio

; DALLARI, PietroDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:ECB Working Paper; 2013/1553Abstract:We quantify the importance of the tourism channel for the international transmission of cyclical fluctuations to the Mediterranean basin. We use five destination countries and a number of source countries to provide broad ...

Title:How individual characteristics affect university students drop-out : a semiparametric mixed-effects model for an Italian case study Author(s):BELLOC, Filippo; MARUOTTI, Antonello; PETRELLA, LeaDate:2011Citation:Journal of applied statistics, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 2225-2239Type:ArticleAbstract:University drop-out is a topic of increasing concern in Italy as well as in other countries. In empirical analysis, university drop-out is generally measured by means of a binary variable indicating the drop-out versus ...

Title:How institutions and attitudes shape tax compliance : a cross-national experiment and survey Author(s):PAMPEL, Fred; ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia; STEINMO, Sven

Date:2019Citation:Social forces, 2019, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp. 1337-1364Type:ArticleAbstract:Tax evasion is a problem everywhere, but it is a much bigger policy problem in some countries than it is in others. The Italian government estimates that it loses more than 27 percent of total tax revenue to evasion, whereas ...

Title:How Institutions Evolve: Evolutionary theory and institutional change Author(s):LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, Sven

Date:2012Citation:Polity, 2012, 44, 3, 314–339Type:ArticleAbstract:This article argues that questions of gradual institutional change can be understood as an evolutionary process that can be explained through the careful application of “generalized Darwinism.” We argue that humans' advanced ...

Title:How intelligence tales are made real : Le Bureau des légendes as a cover story for the French DGSE Author(s):BRATTVOLL, Joakim

; CASTRO, VicDate:2023Citation:Intelligence and national security, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:The French spy series Le Bureau des légendes (2015–2020) has been acclaimed for its allegedly realistic depiction of French foreign intelligence. Drawing on the concept of ‘legend’, this article adapts actornetwork theory ...

Title:How international actors interact : explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007 Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...

Title:How is the far right capitalizing on COVID-19? Author(s):KLEIN, Ofra

Date:2020Citation:Tamir BAR-ON and Bàrbara MOLAS (eds), Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by the radical right : scapegoating, conspiracy theories and new narratives, Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, 2020, pp. 31-34Type:Contribution to book

Title:How issue salience explains the rise of the populist right in Western Europe Author(s):DENNISON, James

Date:2020Citation:International journal of public opinion research, 2020, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 397-420Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:This article tests whether variation in issue salience can explain the rise of the populist right in Western Europe. By taking a novel cross-country and cross-time approach at both the aggregate- and individual levels using ...

Title:How judges think in a globalised world? : European and American perspectives Author(s):CARTABIA, Marta; CASSESE, SabinoDate:2013Type:OtherSeries/Number:Global Governance Programme; 2013/07; Policy Briefs; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:How is globalisation impacting the role of judges? How does it affect the nature of the litigation faced by courts? Is there an increased “delegation on courts” of social and economically controversial issues, and how ...

Title:How justice shapes transition governance : a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates Author(s):FISCHER, Anke; JOOSSE, Sofie; STRANDELL, Jacob; SÖDERBERG, Nora

; JOHANSSON, Kornelia; BOONSTRA, Wiebren JohannesDate:2023Citation:Journal of environmental planning and management, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a “just ...

Title:How labour market institutions in European welfare capitalisms affect labour market transitions Author(s):ZAVAKOU, Alkistis

Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Despite the large body of literature on labour market institutions and their effects on employment and unemployment, large gaps remain. This thesis sheds a new light to the old problem of labour market institutional design ...

Title:How large is the 'brain drain' from Italy? Author(s):BECKER, Sascha O.; ICHINO, Andrea

; PERI, GiovanniDate:2004Citation:Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia, 2004, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 1-32Type:ArticleAbstract:Using a comprehensive and newly organized dataset the present article shows that the human capital content of emigrants from Italy significantly increased during the 1990's. This is even more dramatically the case if we ...

Title:How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy? Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea

; BECKER, Sascha; PERI, GiovanniDate:2003Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CESifo Working Paper; 2003/839

Title:How leaders mobilize workers : social democracy, revolution, and moderate syndicalism Author(s):VÖSSING, KonstantinDate:2017Citation:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017Type:BookAbstract:This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters. In some countries, leaders have responded effectively to their political environment, while ...

Title:How Liberal are Citizenship Tests? Editor(s):JOPPKE, Christian; BAUBÖCK, Rainer

Date:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2010/41; [GLOBALCIT]; EUDO Citizenship ObservatoryAbstract:A significant number of –mostly Western European– countries have recently newly introduced citizenship tests or have added stricter requirements of civic knowledge to previously existing language tests. This working paper ...

Title:How long can a honeymoon last? : institutional and fundamental beliefs in the collapse of a target zone Author(s):ALBEROLA ILA, EnriqueDate:1994Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1994/39

Title:How many approaches in the social sciences? An epistemological introduction Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella

; KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Citation:KEATING Michael, DELLA PORTA Donatella (eds), Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: a pluralist perspective, Cambridge UK/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 19-39Type:Contribution to book

Title:How many migrants from, and to, Mediterranean Countries of the Middle East and North Africa? Author(s):FARGUES, Philippe

Date:2005Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:[Migration Policy Centre]; [CARIM-South]; CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes; 2005/16

Title:How many shades of green? : an FSR proposal for a taxonomy of 'renewable' gases Author(s):CONTI, Ilaria

Date:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:Policy Briefs; 2020/06; Florence School of Regulation; Energy; [Gas]Abstract:The role of gas in the future of the EU energy sector has been one of the most debated topics in the last few years. As natural gas (NG) makes up less and less of Europe’s energy mix (according to several studies), there ...