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 ...
Title:Inventing Russian History: ‘Reflections on Russia’ – an unearthed essay by Yakov Ivanovič Bulgakov (1743-1809)
Author(s):VELIZHEV, MikhailDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper analyzes the anonymous article “Reflections on Russia, or Some Remarks on Russians Civil and Moral Status Until Peter I’s Reign” published in 1807 in the Moscow literary magazine “Messenger of Europe”. ‘Reflections’ ...
Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...
Title:Inventors and Impostors: an Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications – those
satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and non-obviousness – should be accepted,
while bad ...
Title:Is Discrete Time a Good Representation of Continuous Time?
Author(s):LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economists model time as continuous or discrete. The recent literature
on continuous time models with delays should help to bridge the gap
between these two families of models. In this note, we propose a simple
time–to–build ...