Title:The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and and Portfolios across the Wealth Distribution
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Wealthier people generally hold a larger part of their savings in risky
assets. Using the US Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that wealthier
households also have a higher portfolio share of foreign assets. This ...
Title:The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia
Author(s):LE NORMAND, BrigitteDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...
Title:How Can the ECB be Credible?
Author(s):BINI SMAGHI, LorenzoDate:1996Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market
Author(s):MCRAE, Shaun D.; WOLAK, Frank A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper uses the framework in Wolak (2003a,b and 2007) and data on half-hourly offer curves and market-clearing prices and quantities from the New Zealand wholesale electricity market over the period January 1, 2001 to ...
Title:How Illiberal are Citizenship Rules in European Union Countries?
Author(s):DUMBRAVA, CosticaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper proposes an assessment of citizenship rules in European Union countries. First, it designs an
analytical framework in order to evaluate the rules of political membership from a liberal-democratic
perspective. ...
Title:How Important is Intra-Household Risk Sharing for Savings and Labor Supply?
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador; SIASSI, NawidDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:While it is recognized that the family is primarily an institution for risk sharing, little is known about the quantitative effects of this informal source of insurance on savings and labor supply. In this paper, we present ...
Title:How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy?
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; BECKER, Sascha; PERI, GiovanniDate:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Working Paper
Title:How Liberal are Citizenship Tests?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract: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 ...