Title:Good Administration in EU Law and the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour
Author(s):MENDES, JoanaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The Code of Good Administrative Behaviour has passed fairly unnoticed in academic research on the principle of good administration. However, it is an important source to understand the meaning of this principle and concept ...
Title:A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions
Author(s):GATEJEL, LuminitaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title:Good Luck or Good Policy? An expectational theory of macro volatility switches
Author(s):GABALLO, GaetanoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In an otherwise unique-equilibrium model, agents are segmented into a few informational islands
according to the signal they receive about others' expectations. Even if agents perfectly observe
fundamentals, rational-exuberance ...
Title:Granger-Causal Analysis of VARMA-GARCH Models
Author(s):WOŹNIAK, TomaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Recent economic developments have shown the importance of spillover and contagion effects in financial markets. Such effects are not limited to relations between the levels of financial variables but also impact on their ...
Title:Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland
Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The transition to democracy in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe is said to be the achievement of the dissident sector. In Poland the biggest power in the democratization process was the Solidarność trade union. At the ...
Title:Gravity and Information:Heterogeneous Firms, Exporter Networks and the ‘Distance Puzzle’
Author(s):KRAUTHEIM, SebastianDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Distance effects in empirical gravity equations appear to be too high to be explained by transport costs alone. Moreover, despite the strong and ongoing reduction of transport costs, the estimated coefficients are rather ...