Title:Ministerial Careers and 'The Missing Piece': Introducing and operationalising the ministerial careers framework
Author(s):BRIGHT, Jonathan; DÖRING, Holger; LITTLE, ConorDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The literature on ministerial careers has recently been reinvigorated by individual contributions and collaborative projects. However, few studies of ministerial careers have been able to take into account the varying ...
Title:Minorities and Networking: The Way to Entrepreneurial Success
Author(s):ABDULHAQ-EFFENBERG, NajatDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The entrepreneurs of the Jewish and Greek minorities successfully dominated a significant portion of
the economic activities in Egypt, 1860-1960.
The tide of events in the mid twentieth century Middle East, especially ...
Title:The Missing Link The Transition from Education to Labour in the Soviet Union Revisited
Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The post-communist assessment of communist youth transitions to work is at risk of exaggerating the assumption of previously existing predefined and predictable channels into work. In order to allow a somewhat refined ...
Title:A Mixture Multiplicative Error Model for Realized Volatility
Author(s):LANNE, MarkkuDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A multiplicative error model with time-varying parameters and
an error term following a mixture of gamma distributions is intro-
duced. The model is fitted to the daily realized volatility series of
Deutschemark/Dollar ...
Title:The Mobile Broadband and Fixed Broadband Battle in Swedish Market: Complementary or substitution?
Author(s):SRINUAN, Pratompong; SRINUAN, Chalita; BOHLIN, ErikDate:2011-06-26Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper aims to investigate the current broadband situation in Swedish market, in particular
whether the mobile broadband (MBB) is a complementary or substitute service to fixed broadband
(FBB) by using multinomial ...
Title:Mobile Phones and the Rise of Neo-Liberal Consumer Subjectivity in Palestine
Author(s):JUNKA-AIKIO, LauraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Despite the abundance of research on Palestine, studies of Palestinian political subjectivity and agency
tend to adhere to the dominant analytical frames of Nationalism and/or Islamism. This has led to the
neglect of a ...
Title:Mobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticks
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; DELARUE, ErikDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the transition towards a decarbonized energy system, we need city authorities to lead by example as
public actors, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive
and manage ...
Title:Mobilizing for Democracy: A research project
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The project addresses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in democratization processes, bridging social science approaches to social movements and democracy. The project starts by revisiting the 'transitology' ...
Title:A Model for Ordinal Responses with an Application to Policy Interest Rate
Author(s):SIRCHENKO, AndreiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) Working PapersAbstract:The decisions to reduce, leave unchanged, or increase (the price, rating, policy interest rate, etc.) are often characterized by abundant no-change outcomes that are generated by different processes. Moreover, the positive ...
Title:Modeling Expectations with Noncausal Autoregressions
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; SAIKKONEN, PenttiDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper is concerned with univariate noncausal autoregressive models and their
potential usefulness in economic applications. We argue that noncausal autoregres-
sive models are especially well suited for modeling ...
Title:Modeling oligopolistic interaction
Author(s):MARTIN, StephenDate:1989Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI Working Papers