Title:Seizing Layers within a Multi-layered Structure: How the EU Deals with Security and Where the GCC Could Fit In
Author(s):GORENFLO, René DanielDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article starts with a qualitative analysis of the security functions of the European Union (EU) and how they are distributed within its institutional set-up. The analysis then takes recourse to structuralist and ...
Title:Self-fulfilling Beliefs and Bounded Bubbles in the U.S. Housing Market
Author(s):KASHIWAGI, MasanoriDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides an equilibrium framework to organize the following empirical observations on the
U.S. housing market from 1975 to 2007: (i) housing tenure and vacancies were approximately
constant, (ii) rents were ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and ...
Title:Self-regulation in European Contract Law
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper addresses self-regulation as a complementary means to harmonize and regulate
European Contract Law. In the context of the paper SR is conceived as a complementary device to
legislation and as a monitoring ...
Title:A Self-Sufficient European Private Law – A Viable Concept?
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SVETIEV, YaneDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This working paper collects the contributions to the first external workshop within the ERPL project that took place on 4 and 5 May 2012 at the EUI. The workshop aimed to clarify the key parameters to be used for analysing ...
Title:Setting the Scene: How did Services get to Bolkestein and Why?
Author(s):DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper traces the origins of the recently adopted general services directives of the European Union, and addresses the question why such an important piece of internal market legislation was adopted so recently, and ...
Title:Shaping the International Order as a Union Objective and the Dynamic Internationalisation of Constitutional Law
Author(s):LARIK, JorisDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CLEER Working PapersAbstract:Shaping the international order according to the Union’s values is not just a political ambition, but is also enshrined in EU primary law in the form of the external objectives of the Union. These have been streamlined and ...
Title:Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China
Author(s):HOSNE, Ana CarolinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...