Title:Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
Author(s):COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, EoinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
Title:Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments
Author(s):GAZZINI, ClaudiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...
Title:Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China
Author(s):HOSNE, Ana CarolinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...
Title:A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ...
Title:The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia
Author(s):VULETIC, DeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...
Title:"Those Who Give Are Not All Generous": Tips and bribes at the sixteenth-century papal court
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Ambassadors in early modern Europe were frequent disbursers of tips, rewards and bribes, and usually expected something in return for their liberality. This paper considers the conventions, both written and unwritten, that ...