Title:The International Risk-Sharing Puzzle is at Business Cycle and Lower Frequency
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; VIANI, FrancescaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We decompose the Backus-Smith [1993] statistic -- a low or negative correlation between relative consumption and the real exchange rate at odds with a high degree of international risk sharing -- in its dynamic components ...
Title:International Schumpeterian competition and optimal R&D subsidies
Author(s):IMPULLITI, GiammarioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for
innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of
cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
Title:International Schumpeterian Competition and Optimal R&D Subsidies
Author(s):IMPULLITI, GiammarioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for
innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of
cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
Title:International Trade and Growth: The Impact of Selection and Imitation
Author(s):STÖLTING, SarahDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper develops an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms to analyze
the impact of intra-industry trade on productivity growth. Growth is generated by selection,
and sustained by entrants imitating successful ...
Title:Internet Law in the Era of Transnational Law
Author(s):POLLICINO, Oreste; BASSINI, MarcoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Since its birth, the Internet has usually been considered as a threat to the traditional conception of sovereignty as power of a state to regulate the interactions taking place within its territory. The extraterritorial ...
Title:Internet, Telecom Sector Liberalization and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Author(s):GIANFRANCHI, Rachele; KERAMANE, RymDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Middle Eastern and North African countries started liberalizing the Internet in the mid 1990’s as a
result of the political willingness to develop an economy based on knowledge. The paper suggests that
liberalization is ...
Title:Interpreting Murder Medically A Medico-Legal Case from an Early 20th Century European Periphery
Author(s):SKÅLEVÅG, Svein AtleDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper takes as its departure point a murder case from 1911, when four siblings killed their younger brother in a remote location in northern Norway. This episode becomes an occasion for discussing medical and juridical ...