Title:Does Subsidiarity Really Matter?
Author(s):DEHOUSSE, RenaudDate:1992Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW
Title:Does the Box-Cox Transformation Help in Forecasting Macroeconomic Time Series?
Author(s):PROIETTI, Tommaso; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The paper investigates whether transforming a time series leads to an improvement in forecasting accuracy. The class of transformations that is considered is the Box-Cox power transformation, which applies to series measured ...
Title:Does the Good Matter? Evidence on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection from Consumer Credit Market
Author(s):BICAKOVA, AlenaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Default rates on instalment loans vary with type of the good purchased.
Using an Italian dataset of instalment loans between 1995-1999, we first
show that the variation persists even after controlling for contract ...
Title:Domestic and International Influences on Business Cycle Regimes in Europe
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; SENSIER, Marianne; BIRCHENHALL, Chris; OSBORNE, DeniseDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research Discussion Paper SeriesAbstract:This paper examines the roles of domestic and international variables in predicting classical business cycle regimes in Germany, France, Italy and the UK over the period 1970 to 2001. A range of real and financial variables ...
Title:The Dominance of Climate Change in Environmental Law: Taking stock for Rio+20
Author(s):PENCA, Jerneja; DE ANDRADE CORRÊA, FabianoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The collection of working papers is a result of a conference, which aimed to consider the notion that the phenomenon of climate change has developed into a separate and overriding policy objective in the broader framework ...
Title:Domination, Social Status, and Distributive Inequality
Author(s):SCHEMMEL, Christian J.Date:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/28Abstract:Is the political value of equality a distributive ideal, governing the allocation of goods, or an idealdemanding egalitarian social and political relationships? Theories of social justice that argue for thelatter understanding ...
Title:A Door into the Dark; Doing Justice to History in the Courts of the European Union
Author(s):LYONS, CaroleDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has been issuing judgments since 1954. It is beyond doubt that this body has, in these judgments, influenced the nature of European integration, indeed the nature of Europe itself, ...
Title:A Double-Faced Medium? The challenges and opportunities of the Internet for social movements
Author(s):MOSCA, LorenzoDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:While most of the literature focusing on the Internet and politics tends to assess the positive contribution of Computer-Mediated Communication to political processes, this paper stresses both positive and negative ...