Title:The Elusive Impact of Investing Abroad for Japanese Parent Firms: Can an Analysis of the Motives for FDI help?
Author(s):HERING, Laura; INNUI, Tomohiko; PONCET, SandraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We investigate whether previous findings of only limited effects of investing abroad on the
performance of firms can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the
motive for foreign direct ...
Title:Empathy, Situations, and an Enlarged Mentality: Iterations between Jaspers and Arendt
Author(s):GATTA, GiuniaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper has the broad goal of inquiring into the role of empathy in contemporary interpretations of judgment as enlarged mentality. Specifically, it puts Hannah Arendt in dialogue with Karl Jaspers, her mentor and friend, ...
Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy
Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
Title:The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state
Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
Title:The Epilogue in the MOX Plant Dispute: An end without findings
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyses the end of the MOX plant dispute, which was recently terminated by the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal. It is demonstrated that neither the ECJ nor the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal discussed the substance of the ...
Title:Escaping Low-Wage Jobs: Wealth, Low Wages, and the Black-White Entrapment Gap
Author(s):MORILLAS, Juan RafaelDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this paper is to analyze individuals’ opportunities to escape low-wage jobs. More specifically, relying on an assets or wealth (as a distinct variable from income) theoretical framework, I provide an explanation ...
Title:Estimating Dynamic Contracts: Risk Sharing in Village Economies
Author(s):LACZÓ, SaroltaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper studies the role of preference and income risk heterogeneity when risk sharing is partial due to limited commitment. I estimate the dynamic contract determining self-enforcing insurance transfers in a structural ...
Title:EU Law in Ireland
Author(s):FAHEY, ElaineDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:There is a rapid increase in the amount of case law on EU law in the Irish legal order. EU Law in Ireland attempts to analyse key case law, text and commentaries in a diversity of EU law-related subject areas and will ...
Title:The European Competition Network: Structure, Management and Initial Experiences of Policy Enforcement
Author(s):CENGIZ, FiratDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The European Competition Network came into life in 2004 as an atypical network with a relatively
hierarchical and highly regulated structure. As a result, predictions regarding the future functioning of
this network were ...
Title:European Integration Without EU Membership: Models, Experiences, Perspectives
Author(s):MAIANI, Francesco; PETROV, Roman; MOULIAROVA, EkaterinaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:At the beginning of the 1990s, the concept of “European integration” could still be said to be fairly unambiguous. Nowadays, it has become plural and complex almost to the point of unintelligibility. This is due, of course, ...
Title:The European Public Sphere
Author(s):KAELBLE, HartmutDate:2007Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LS
Title:The Europeanization of Political Parties: Influencing the Regulations on Political Finance
Author(s):WALECKI, MarcinDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Europe does matter for political parties because of the impact of its rules, directives and norms into the domestic sphere. Drawing on new evidence, this paper sheds light on largely hidden aspects of the Europeanization ...