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 ...
Title:Between Force and Legitimacy: Th e Worldview of Robert Cooper
Author(s):FOLEY, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Advisor to Javier Solana and a Director General at the European Council, Robert Cooper argues for an assertive European stance against threats while at the same time emphasising the importance of gaining international ...
Title:Between intergovernmentalism and socialisation: the Brusselisation of ESDP
Author(s):BREUER, FabianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In general, ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) and its policy- and decision-making process pose a challenging puzzle for the theoretical research agenda of European integration studies. Even though ESDP is ...
Title:Beyond "position" and "valence". A unified framework for the analysis of political issues
Author(s):DE SIO, LorenzoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Starting from a review of models of positional and valence issues, the paper – by tapping into the
original definition of valence issue – introduces a classification of issues based on their level of
overall, dychotomic ...