Title:Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat?
Author(s):STÖLTING, Sarah; KUESTER, Keith; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:ECB Working PaperAbstract:Macroeconomic data suggest that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is quite flat - despite microeconomic evidence implying frequent price adjustments. While real rigidities may help to account for the conflicting evidence, ...
Title:Is there (still) an East-West divide in the conception of citizenship in Europe?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; LIEBICH, AndréDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is common in the literature on nationalism and citizenship to distinguish between civic conceptions
of the political community that are seen to prevail in Western Europe and North America and ethnic
ones that are said ...
Title:Is there a European Business Cycle?
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Working Paper
Title:Is there a European Business Cycle?
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CESifo Working PaperAbstract:The paper uses quarterly GDP data for some 30 years up to and including 2001, to examine the identity and development of the European business cycle. Cycles are identified by using a band-pass filter version of the ...
Title:Is there a Tension between Transparency and Efficiency in Decisions? The case of the Council of the European Union
Author(s):NOVAK, StéphanieDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Decision makers sometimes refer to the tension between transparency and efficiency in decisions. Yet, this argument is not so obvious, partly because the notion of efficiency is unclear. As a first step in the analysis of ...
Title:Islam and Secular Modernity under Western Eyes:A Genealogy of a Constitutive Relationship
Author(s):BRACKE, Sarah; FADIL, NadiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers the theoretical operations involved in sustaining secular modernity within the realm of social theory. It seeks to understand how the secular operates as an epistemological formation. We examine a set ...
Title:Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice
Author(s):BAHI, RihamDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious
authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of
women in the ...
Title:Islamic Feminism and Reforming Muslim Family Laws
Author(s):AL-SHARMANI, MulkiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, I will engage with some of the recent literature that attempts to define, map out, analyze, categorize, and critique a growing body of academic scholarship that has emerged in the late 80s and early 90s and ...
Title:The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment
Author(s):CATIGNANI, SergioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The following paper analyzes the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency strategy and campaign carried out against the Palestinian insurgency within the Occupied/Disputed Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...