Title:Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
Title:Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; LECHENE, ValérieDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, ...
Title:Herding in a Shifting Mediterranean Changing agro-pastoral livelihoods in the Mashreq & Maghreb region
Author(s):NORI, Michele; EL MOURID, Mohamed; GIORGI, Pamela; NEFZAOUI, AliDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Pastoralism is a characteristic livelihood system for the whole Mediterranean basin. From Morocco to Turkey, from Sardinia to Libya, herding societies are a common feature of all countries and civilisations that have ...
Title:Heterogeneous Firms, `Profit Shifting‘ FDI and International Tax Competition
Author(s):KRAUTHEIM, Sebastian; SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR, TimDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a stylized model of international tax competition between a large country and a tax haven. In the large country, firms in a monopolistically competitive industry generate positive profits which can be taxed by ...
Title:Heuristics in Argumentation: A Game-Theoretical Investigation
Author(s):PRAKKEN, Henry; RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper provides a game-theoretical investigation on how to determine optimal strategies in dialogue games for argumentation. To make our ideas as widely applicable as possible, we adopt an abstract dialectical setting ...
Title:Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; VEUGELERS, ReinhildeDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Discussions on problems in higher education in Europe typically focus on rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, the lack of private and public ...
Title:Hiring Quality Labour
Author(s):HERRING, RobbinDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO