Title:Identification and Estimation of Latent Attitudes and their Behavioral Implications
Author(s):SPADY, RichardDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:cemmap Working PapersAbstract:This paper (i) formalizes conditions under which a population distribution of categorical responses to attitudinal questions (‘items’) has a scale representation; (ii) develops tests for whether a particular sample of item ...
Title:Il Consiglio Costituzionale e lo sviluppo della forma di governo della V Repubblica francese
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Astrid Online Paper 2009Abstract:The commentary discusses the role played by the French Constitutional Council in the development of the frame of government of the French Fifth Republic.
Title:The Illicit Traffic of Cultural Objects in the Mediterranean
Author(s):VRDOLJAK, Ana Filipa; FRANCIONI, FrancescoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:Ongoing high profile litigation in Europe and the United States against museum officials and art dealers reveals that the illicit trade in cultural heritage is flourishing rather than abating. Ironically, the disparity ...
Title:Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Author(s):GALE, Douglas; GOTTARDI, PieroDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms’ assets at fire sale prices when markets are ...
Title:The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of populism in Hungary
Author(s):BOZOKI, AndrasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Populist rhetoric always promises a new, more inclusive political community but very often this only achieves new ways of exclusion. Populism is one of the most flexible terms in the history of ideas and in political science ...
Title:Images of Europe
Author(s):PASSERINI, Luisa; NORDERA, MarinaDate:2000Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HEC