Title:Bankruptcy: Is It Enough to Forgive or Must We Also Forget?
Author(s):ELUL, Ronel; GOTTARDI, PieroDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In many countries, lenders are restricted in their access to information about borrowers’ past defaults. We study this provision in a model of repeated borrowing and lending with moral hazard and adverse selection. We ...
Title:The Bargaining Family Revisited: A Comment
Author(s):MIZUSHIMA, Atsue; FUTAGAMI, KoichiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper reexamines results of Konrad and Lommerud (2000). They
construct a two-stage game model of a family. We show that their result
crucially depends on their linear payoff function and obtain an opposite result
if ...
Title:Basic Research, Development and Endogenous Growth
Author(s):DENTI, ChiaraDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Materiali di discussioneAbstract:We introduce the distinction between basic research and development
nside a standard horizontal innovation framework. Multi-stage R&D is
erformed by private agents only. Basic research has the highest level of
enerality, ...
Title:Bayesian Testing of Granger Causality in Markov-Switching VARs
Author(s):DROUMAGUET, Matthieu; WOŹNIAK, TomaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Recent economic developments have shown the importance of spillover and contagion effects in financial markets as well as in macroeconomic reality. Such effects are not limited to relations between the levels of variables ...
Title:The (Beginning of the) End of the Political Unity of the West? Four Scenarios of North Atlantic Futures
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Will future historians write about the last half-decade of the twentieth and the first half-decade of the twenty-first century as the beginning of the end of political unity of the West? If it will not be a more or less ...
Title:Behavioural Effects of Obligations
Author(s):GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, PietroDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:How formal rules affect human behaviour is a crucial issue in economics. Formal rules are defined as obligations backed by incentives. The economic literature has largely focused on the role of incentives in shaping ...
Title:Being Close to Grow Faster: A network-based empirical analysis of economic globalization
Author(s):DUERNECKER, Georg; MEYER, Moritz; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Globalization features one of the major global trends which shape economic outcomes in developing and developed countries. Standard results from the empirical growth literature suggest that participation in worldwide trade ...
Title:Benefits, Incentives and Uncertainty
Author(s):DUSTMANN, Christian; MICKLEWRIGHT, JohnDate:1991Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:BENGASI REVISITED: A Cdrom
Author(s):BARATIERI, DanielaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:It all began in Autumn 2000 with Luisa Passerini’s EUI workshop Films as
Sources for Cultural history: Case Studies from 1930s to 1950s. Thanks to all those
who contributed to this forum. Thanks particularly to Luisa for ...