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 ...
Title:The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Countries: A review of the literature
Author(s):AMIGHINI, Alessia; SANFILIPPO, Marco; RABELLOTTI, RobertaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:PRIN 2007 Working PapersAbstract:The rising role of developing country MNEs in international markets is one of the most recent aspects of the globalization process. Recent data on the outward expansion of firms from developing countries have induced many ...
Title:Risk and Strict Liability: The distinct examples of Germany, the US and Russia
Author(s):BRÜGGEMEIER, GertDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Enlightenment, natural law and economic liberalism engendered the grand concept of modern private law. Nearly simultaneously the ongoing process of industrial revolution paved the path into another modernity. Its new ...
Title:Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; PAIELLA, MonicaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay for a risky security. We relate this measure to consumers.endowments and attributes ...
Title:Risk Management in the Energy Markets and Value-at-Risk Modelling: A hybrid approach
Author(s):ANDRIOSOPOULOS, Kostas; NOMIKOS, NikosDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper proposes a set of VaR models appropriate to capture the dynamics of energy prices and subsequently quantify energy price risk by calculating VaR and ES measures. Amongst the competing VaR methodologies evaluated ...
Title:Risk Spillovers and Hedging: Why do firms invest too much in systemic risk?
Author(s):WILLEMS, Bert; MORBEE, JorisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper we show that free entry decisions may be socially ineffcient, even in a perfectly competitive homogeneous goods market with non-lumpy investments. In our model, inefficient entry decisions are the result of ...
Title:Risk-sharing and contagion in networks
Author(s):CABRALES, Antonio; GOTTARDI, Piero; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The aim of this paper is to investigate how the capacity of an economic system to absorb shocks depends on the specific pattern of interconnections established among financial firms. The key trade-off at work is between ...