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Title: Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; POELHEKKE, Steven Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, ...

Title: A Volatility-based Theory of Fiscal Union Formation Author(s): LUQUE, Jaime; MORELLI, Massimo; TAVARES, José Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In a setting where heterogeneous jurisdictions share a common policy, an increase in volatility breaks unanimous support for the status-quo and may prompt a subset of jurisdictions to favor either deepening the agreement ...

Title: Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of the Economic Crisis? Author(s): PLEWA, Piotr Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: COMPAS Working Paper Abstract: In November 2008 the Spanish government authorized a voluntary return program for foreign workers in order to decrease unemployment pressures in the wake of 2008/09 financial crisis. Voluntary return programs are not ...

Title: Voting and Decisions in the ECB Author(s): BRUECKNER, Matthias Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Voting on Policies in Committees: A Welfare Analysis Author(s): BRUECKNER, Matthias Date: 1998 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem Author(s): LOCKWOOD, Ben Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are benevolent, while retaining the assumption of policy uniformity. If instead, decisions are made by ...

Title: The Vulnerability of Sub-Saharan Africa to the Financial Crisis: The Case of Trade Author(s): BERMAN, Nicolas; MARTIN, Philippe Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In the early stage of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the conventional wisdom was that financial underdevelopment of sub Saharan African economies may have been a bless-ing in disguise because it insulated them from the ...

Title: Wage assimilation : migrants versus natives and foreign migrants versus internal migrants Author(s): STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, Claudia Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal ...

Title: Wage Bargaining Tensions in Italian and Greek Banking: The role of employer associability and labour-state coalitions Author(s): KORNELAKIS, Andreas Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: How do we explain divergent trajectories of change in wage bargaining institutions? Existing studies maintained that European economic integration and liberalisation, decline in trade union power, changing work organization ...

Title: Wage indexation and macroeconomic fluctuations Author(s): DEHEZ, Pierre; FITOUSSI, Jean-Paul Date: 1985 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI Working Papers

Title: Wage-earners' investment funds : theory, simulation and policy Author(s): GEORGE, Donald A. R. Date: 1986 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI Working Papers

Title: The Wage-Price Spiral in Greece: An Application of the LSE Methodology in Systems of Nonstationary Variables Author(s): SIDERIS, Dimitrios Date: 1996 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Waiting on the Purgatory: Religious Networks of Iraqi Christian Transit Migrants in Istanbul Author(s): DANIS, Didem A. Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS

Title: Walrasian Equilibrium without Survival: Existence, Efficiency, and Remedial Policy Author(s): COLES, Jeffrey L.; HAMMOND, Peter J. Date: 1991 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: War Contexts: The Criminal Responsibility of Private Security Personnel Author(s): QUIRICO, Ottavio Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI AEL Abstract: This paper explores the criminal accountability of Private Security Company (PSC) personnel in war contexts. It focuses on the legal position of PSC personnel, defined on the basis of the relationship linking PSCs to the ...

Title: Water Misallocation and Environmental Externalities in Electricity Generation Author(s): BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR, Etienne; VINELLA, Annalisa Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: We explore the interactions between environmental externalities and intertemporal market power in electricity generation industries where thermal operators imperfectly compete with operators using scarce water stored in ...

Title: Ways Out of the Maquis Communautaire - On Simplification and Consolidation and the Need for a Restatement of European Primary Law Author(s): SCHMID, Christoph U. Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSC

Title: ‘We Can’t Spy … If We Can’t Buy!’: The Privatization of Intelligence and the Limits of Outsourcing ‘Inherently Governmental Functions’ Author(s): CHESTERMAN, Simon Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI AEL Abstract: Though it lags behind the privatization of military services, the privatization of intelligence has expanded dramatically with the growth in intelligence activities following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United ...

Title: Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy Author(s): COVIELLO, Decio; BOBBA, Matteo Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: American Development Bank Working Paper Abstract: Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as 'weakly exogenous' we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results ...

Title: Welfare and decentralization in Spain Author(s): MORENO, Luis Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: European Forum

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