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 ...
Title:Stock Prices and Economic Fluctuations: A Markov Switching Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The role of expectations for economic fluctuations has received
considerable attention in recent business cycle analysis. We exploit Markov
regime switching models to identify shocks in cointegrated structural vector ...
Title:Strategic Bidding in Multi-unit Auctions with Capacity Constrained Bidders: The New York capacity market
Author(s):SCHWENEN, SebastianDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper employs a simple model to describe bidding behavior in multi-unit uniform price procurement auctions when firms are capacity constrained. Using data from the New York City capacity auctions, I find that capacity ...
Title:Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence
Author(s):CASAS, AgustinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...
Title:A strategic energy technology policy towards 2050 : no-regret strategies for European technology push
Author(s):RUESTER, Sophia; SCHWENEN, Sebastian; FINGER, Matthias; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As current policy frameworks are expiring in 2020, the EU is revisiting its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon. The main long-run objective for energy technology policy is to foster the achievement of ...
Title:Strategic Mass Killings
Author(s):ESTEBAN, Joan; MORELLI, Massimo; ROHNER, DominicDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals. We provide a ...
Title:Strategic Wage Bargaining, Labor Market Volatility and Persistence
Author(s):HERTWECK, Matthias S.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper modifies the standard Mortensen-Pissarides job matching model in order
to explain the cyclical behavior of vacancies and unemployment. The modifications include
strategic wage bargaining (Hall and Milgrom, ...