Title:The Fabric of International Jurisprudence: An interdisciplinary encounter
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; SOLANKE, Iyiola; DALLARA, Cristina; PETKOVA, Bilyana; PORTA, Jérome; VAN BOCKEL, BasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Bringing together a variety of outlooks from comparative law, legal theory, organizational sociology, socio-legal studies or political science, this Joint Working Papers explores the cognitive equipment through which ...
Title:Factor Forecasts for the UK
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; BANERJEE, Anindya; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2001Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Factor Forecasts for the UK
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; BANERJEE, Anindya; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPR Discussion PaperAbstract:Time series models are often adopted for forecasting because of their simplicity and good performance. The number of parameters in these models increases quickly with the number of variables modelled, so that usually only ...
Title:Factor-Augmented Error Correction Models
Author(s):BANERJEE, Anindya; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper brings together several important strands of the econometrics literature: errorcorrection,
cointegration and dynamic factor models. It introduces the Factor-augmented Error
Correction Model (FECM), where the ...
Title:Factor-MIDAS for Now- and Forecasting with Ragged-Edge Data: A Model Comparison for German GDP
Author(s):MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; SCHUMACHER, ChristianDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper compares different ways to estimate the current state of the economy using factor
models that can handle unbalanced datasets. Due to the different release lags of business cycle
indicators, data unbalancedness ...
Title:Factors that Influence the Targets and Criteria for Electricity Interconnector Investments
Author(s):SUPPONEN, MattiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analysis various factors that influence electricity interconnector investments. It shows that several features linked to zonal market design, in particular the possibility to favour market participants in the ...
Title:Fair Divisions as Attracting Nash Equilibria of Simple Games
Author(s):GALBIATI, MarcoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We consider the problem of allocating a finite number of divisible homogeneous
goods to N ≥ 2 individuals, in a way which is both envy-free
and Pareto optimal. Building on Thomson (2005 Games and Economic
Behavior), a ...
Title:Fairness in Risky Environments: Theory and evidence
Author(s):BABICKÝ, Vitezslav; ORTMANN, Andreas; VAN KOTEN, SilvesterDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CERGE-EI Working PaperAbstract:Theories of fairness have typically used the assumption of ex-ante known pie size. Pie size, however, is rarely known ex ante. Using three simple allocation problems generally known as dictator, ultimatum and trust games, ...
Title:Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan
Author(s):OJIMA, Fumiaki; VON BELOW, SusanneDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates why the effect of family background on student’s educational achievement is so different in Germany and in Japan in spite of their similarity over a huge variance of student performance scores in ...
Title:Family Firms and the Agency Cost of Debt: The role of soft information during a crisis
Author(s):D’AURIZIO, Leandro; OLIVIERO, Tommaso; ROMANO, LivioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In this paper we study how access to bank lending during the recent financial crisis differed between family and non-family firms. Our theoretical prediction is that the presence of a family block-holder in the company ...
Title:Family Firms and the Great Recession: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Author(s):D’AURIZIO, Leandro; ROMANO, LivioDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to study how family firms, compared to widely-held companies, reacted to the 2008 economic crisis in terms of employment adjustments. By using a difference-in-difference approach, we provide ...
Title:The Family Rights of European Children: Expulsion of non-European parents
Author(s):DAVIES, Gareth T.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In Ruiz Zambrano and Dereci the Court found that the Treaty prohibits expulsion of a family member of a Union citizen if that expulsion would force the Union citizen to leave the Union too. This is of particular importance ...
Title:Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History
Author(s):MARCUS, NathanDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the ...