Title:Some Business Cycle Consequences of Trade Agreements: Th e Case of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Author(s):BEJAN, MariaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates the effects of signing a trade agreement on the correlations of the business
cycle fluctuations of consumption, investment and output between two countries. We construct an
international business ...
Title:Some Policy and Research Questions Related to Energy Storage
Author(s):SIOSHANSI, RamteenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper provides a survey of the history and future of storage development in the US and policy
and analytical questions relating to storage. The paper discusses the history of storage development in
the US, and some ...
Title:Some Propositions About Civil Society and the Consolidation of Democracy
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1993Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IHS Reihe PolitikwissenschaftAbstract:»Civil Society« is a concept that has been much discussed in relation to the processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America and, especially, in Eastern Europe. Despite widespread recognition of its potential ...
Title:Soothing Politics
Author(s):LEVY, RaphaëlDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/30Abstract:Political issues are particularly prone to motivated beliefs, as the individual cost of manipulating one's information is negligible in large elections. We consider a political agency model in which voters learn information ...
Title:Source Norms and Self-Regulated Institutions
Author(s):RUBINO, Rossella; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In this paper we shall focus on an important class of constitutive norms, which we shall call source-norms,
namely those norms establishing what norms, on basis of what properties, validly belong to a normative
system. ...
Title:Sources of Law in Spain: An Outline
Author(s):DIEZ-PICAZO, Luis MariaDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW
Title:Sources of Party System Institutionalization in New Democracies: Lessons from East Central Europe
Author(s):CASAL BÉRTOA, FernandoDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Building on Casal Bértoa and Mair´s (2010) work on the institutionalization of post-communist party systems and as a response to their uneasiness with the failure of the party politics literature to determine what causes ...
Title:The Sources of Use-Information: A Review of Relevant Literature and an Exploration into Innovation and Aging
Author(s):PEINE, AlexanderDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper deploys a research agenda on innovation in aging societies. It identifies an important yet under-researched question concerning the relationship between technology and aging. How is knowledge about individual ...
Title:Sovereign Immunity and the Enforcement of International Cultural Property Law
Author(s):PAVONI, RiccardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The present paper examines the intersection of the law of State immunity and cultural property issues. The primary interest in undertaking this investigation lies in the fact that, while immunity from seizure and other ...