Title:State of the Art? Advances in Explaining Women’s Employment Patterns
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial
differences in women’s employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers
research that emphasises ...
Title:A State of Trust
Author(s):LEVI, MargaretDate:1996Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:“State-Building for Peace” – A New Paradigm for International Engagement in Post-Conflict Fragile States?
Author(s):ROCHA MENOCAL, AlinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is intended to analyse two leading approaches that have guided international efforts to
promote peace and development in conflict-afflicted fragile states since the 1990s, namely peacebuilding
and state-building. ...
Title:State-Society Relations and Intangible Dimensions of State Resilience and State Building: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Author(s):POULIGNY, BéatriceDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Crucial social and cultural elements underpin state institutions and ensure that they function. This is
true in any context, but it is even more important to understand and truly acknowledge in “fragile”
ones. Conventional ...
Title:Statecraft, the Market State and the Development of European Legal Culture
Author(s):AFILALO, Ari; PATTERSON, Dennis; PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:We consider whether the theory of the market-state can explain the features of a common European legal culture. Our thesis is that there is an extant EU legal culture, one which developed through the Europeanisation of ...
Title:States and Migration Industries in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea
Author(s):SURAK, KristinDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Among the crescendo of calls for “systemic” approaches to the study of international migration, a small body of literature has emerged around what might be termed the migration industry, or the matrix of border-spanning ...
Title:Stationary Equilibrium Distributions in Economies with Limited Commitment
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Limited commitment to contracts can explain imperfect risk sharing even when individuals have access to complete insurance markets. Past contributions have focused on the resulting cross-sectional distribution of consumption ...
Title:A Statistical Comparison of Alternative Identification Schemes for Monetary Policy Shocks
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Abstract. Different identification schemes for monetary policy shocks have
been proposed in the literature. They typically specify just-identifying re-
strictions in a standard structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) ...
Title:Status of PMSC Personnel in the Laws of War: The Question of Direct Participation in Hostilities
Author(s):SOSSAI, MirkoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:The legal status of private military and security company personnel under the law of international armed conflicts determines the rights and the privileges afforded by the law and the legal consequences deriving from the ...
Title:Stochastic Stability in Binary Choice Coordination Games
Author(s):STAUDIGL, MathiasDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recent literature in evolutionary game theory is devoted to the question of robust equilibrium selection under noisy best-response dynamics. In this paper we present a complete picture of equilibrium selection for asymmetric ...