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    Title: The globalisation of inequality  Author(s): BOURGUIGNON, François Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: There has been an apparently contradictory trend in the global inequality in living standards over the past quarter-century. On the one hand, global inequality between countries has decreased significantly, while on the ...
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    Title: Globalization and the Politics of Subsidies  Author(s): AYDIN, Umut Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: State subsidies to attract investment have proliferated since the 1980s, yet we know little about the factors that influence governments’ subsidy policies. In this paper, I propose that in making subsidy policies, governments ...
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    Title: A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions  Author(s): GATEJEL, Luminita Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
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    Title: Good Luck or Good Policy? An expectational theory of macro volatility switches  Author(s): GABALLO, Gaetano Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In an otherwise unique-equilibrium model, agents are segmented into a few informational islands according to the signal they receive about others' expectations. Even if agents perfectly observe fundamentals, rational-exuberance ...
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    Title: Governance, Development, and Foreign Direct Investment  Author(s): DIXIT, Avinash Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Less-developed countries and transition economies wish to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but are often handicapped by their weak governance structures, i.e. by insecurity of property rights and contracts. Potential ...
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    Title: Governing America: the Emergence of Behavioral Law and Economics  Author(s): JOLLS, Christine Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Bounded rationality is an important and pervasive characteristic of much human behavior. Legal policy under American President Barack Obama has been strongly influenced by behavioral economics' understanding of boundedly ...
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    Title: Government Without Trust  Author(s): HARDIN, Russell Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction  Author(s): BEAN, Charles Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...
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    Title: The Greater and Lesser Nobility in Early Modern Europe: Poland-Lithuania and England and Wales in the Sixteenth Century  Author(s): GROMELSKI, Tomasz W. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper comparatively discusses the relationship between the greater and lesser nobilities in two contrasting polities - sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania and Tudor England. It argues that the szlachta’s and the gentry’s ...
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    Title: Guide de style juridique  Author(s): BEAULAC, Stephane Date: 2006
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    Title: Habermas’s Notion of a Post-Secular Society. A Perspective from International Relations  Author(s): BARBATO, Mariano; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: How can secular Western IR theory deal with religion? Bringing in the debates on religion in the public sphere, the paper’s goal is to foster a deeper understanding of the nexus between religion and international relations. ...
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    Title: Habsburg ‘Colonial Experiment’ in Bosnia and Hercegovina revisited  Author(s): ALEKSOV, Bojan Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
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    Title: The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions  Author(s): GIANI, Leonardo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
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    Title: Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Legality and Legitimacy  Author(s): VINX, Lars Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Sheds new light on the relationship between positivist theories of law and political philosophy, by rooting Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law in the context of his understanding of political legitimacy Offers an original ...
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    Title: Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity  Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
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    Title: History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives  Author(s): HAMPSHER-MONK, Iain; TILMANS, Karin; VAN VREE, Frank Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of ...
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    Title: Horizontal Equity  Author(s): GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, Pietro Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The principle of horizontal equity (HE) is considered as a basic principle to follow in order to design and evaluate a redistributive policy. However, the theoretical debate has not yet clarified what exactly horizontal ...
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    Title: The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia  Author(s): LE NORMAND, Brigitte Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...
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    Title: How Far beyond Pax Westfalica  Author(s): BEAULAC, Stephane Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
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    Title: How to Attain Minimax Risk with Applications to Distribution-Free Nonparametric Estimation and Testing  Author(s): SCHLAG, Karl H. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We show how to a derive exact distribution-free nonparametric results for minimax risk when underlying random variables have known finite bounds and means are the only parameters of interest. Transform the data with a ...