Title:More Secrecy...More Knowledge Disclosure? On Disclosure Outside of Patents
Author(s):PONCE, Carlos J.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:It is an important concern that innovators by waiving their patent rights might obstruct
the disclosure of knowledge and therefore retard progress. This paper explores this
concern by using a simple model of two innovators ...
Title:The Moroccan Party of Justice and Development in Local Government: Do Islamists Govern Differently?
Author(s):PELLICER, Miquel; WEGNER, EvaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates local government practices during the first tenure of office of the Islamist
Moroccan Party of Justice and Development (PJD). We consider three cases of PJD governance, the
towns of Ksar al-Kebir, ...
Title:Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Height
Author(s):AKACHI, Yoko; CANNING, DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In most developing countries, rising levels of nutrition and improvements in public health have led to declines in infant mortality and rising adult height. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, we see a different pattern. ...
Title:Motor vehicles vs. dollars: selling socialist cars in neutral markets. Some evidence from the ŠKODA Auto case.
Author(s):FAVA, ValentinaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper analyses the relationship of Škoda Auto with its dealers in the neutral countries in the years from 1948 to 1964.
The takeover by the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1948 and the rising tensions of the Cold War ...
Title:Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System
Author(s):CALVI, Giulia; CHABOT, IsabelleDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:The overall evaluation of the formation of political decision-making processes in the early modern period is being transformed by enriching our understanding of political language. This broader picture of court politics ...
Title:Much Ado about Pluto? The ‘Unity of the Legal Order of the European Union’ Revisited
Author(s):HERRMANN, Christoph W.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The European Union is commonly described as a temple-like construction resting upon three pillars. Whereas the first pillar, Community law, constitutes a “new legal order” of supranational character, the second and third ...
Title:Multi-level Governance and Security: The Security Sector Reform Process in the Central African Republic
Author(s):BAGAYOKO-PENONE, NiagaléDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Analysing how the SSR process in CAR has been defined and then implemented, this article puts emphasis on the international interactions between institutional actors who may be geographically/territorially situated at ...
Title:Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods: Theories, rules and institutions for the central policy challenge in the 21st Century
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; LAMY, Pascal; BORRELL, José; KAUL, Inge; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich; WOUTERS, Jan; RAMOPOULOS, Thomas; ABBOTT, Frederick M.; PITARAKI, Anna; ESTY, Daniel; MOFFA, Anthony; HARTMANN, Moritz; PENCA, Jerneja; COTTIER, ThomasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This publication includes papers of an interdisciplinary conference in 2011 analysing multilevel governance problems of the international trading, environmental, development and rule-of-law systems as interdependent ...