Title:Rethinking the EU’s Mediterranean Policies Post-1/11
Author(s):TOCCI, Nathalie; CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IAI Working PaperAbstract:The revolts sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 have shaken long-held truths about the region. Most strikingly, the sustainability of these regimes has proved a chimera. The events in the region and ...
Title:Revenue Comparison in Asymmetric Auctions with Discrete Valuations
Author(s):DONI, Nicola; MENICUCCI, DomenicoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We consider an asymmetric auction setting with two bidders such that the valuation of each bidder has a binary support. We prove that in this context the second price auction yields a higher expected revenue than the first ...
Title:Revitalizing Doctrinal Legal Research in Europe: What About Methodology?
Author(s):VAN GESTEL, Rob; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Both in the U.S. and in Europe there is a debate on methodology in legal research. Doctrinalists and multidisciplinarians appear to be in different camps fighting over the ‘true nature’ of legal scholarship. We wonder where ...
Title:Richelieu. A Role of Action and its Legacy
Author(s):D'ALBIS, CécileDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Biography, a difficult and ambiguous genre, the most popular in all of literature, has played such an important role in the meaning of the individual self in western civilization. Its history has also followed the main ...
Title:The Right Amount of Trust
Author(s):BUTLER, Jeffrey V.; GIULIANO, Paola; GUISO, LuigiDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual ...
Title:The Right of the Employee to Refuse to be Transferred. A comparative and theoretical analysis.
Author(s):HARTZEN, A.-C.; HÖS, Nikolett; LECOMTE, Franck Alexandre; MARZO, Claire; MESTRE, Bruno; OLBRICH, H.; FULLER, S.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper aims at assessing the right of employees to refuse to have their contracts of employment transferred within the framework of the transfer of undertakings Directive. A transnational as well as a theoretical ...
Title:Rights and Moral Reasoning: An Unstated Assumption
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Both the defenders and critics of judicial review assume tacitly that there is a special
moral capacity needed for a correct articulation of constitutional (explicit or implied)
rights, and they only disagree about who ...
Title:Rights as Norms and as Ends
Author(s):PALOMBELLA, GianluigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article considers the narratives of law through the lens of the form-substance
devide. Different legal theories have provided for opposite definitions of law, legal rules
and individual rights, enhancing their ...
Title:The Rise of European Competition Policy, 1950-1991: A Cross-Disciplinary Survey of a Contested Policy Sphere
Author(s):WARLOUZET, LaurentDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Competition policy is perhaps the field in which the European Commission has the most extensive
powers. Born institutionally in 1950, European competition policy now has a sixty year-long history.
This paper argues that ...