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Title: The Institutionalization of the European Parliament Author(s): GUNGOR, Gaye Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the extent to which the ‘world’s only elected supranational assembly’ has become institutionalized. More specifically, it asks the following question: Has the European Parliament become more complex, ...

Title: Institutions and Sectoral Logics in Creative Industries: The media cluster in Cologne Author(s): APITZSCH, Birgit; PIOTTI, Geny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Institutional actors at the regional or local level increasingly see the development of the creative industry sector as a means of improving local competitiveness. However, research on relations between institutions and ...

Title: Integration Requirements in EU Migration Law Author(s): DE VRIES, Karin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In recent years, integration requirements have come to play a role in EU immigration law. Several directives – the Family Reunification Directive (2003/86), the Long-Term Residents Directive (2003/109) and the Blue Card ...

Title: Intellectual Property Law in the Peoples' Republic of China: A powerful economic tool for innovation and development Author(s): WECHSLER, Andrea Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article

Title: International Competition and U.S. R&D Subsidies: A Quantitative Welfare Analysis Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The geographical distribution of R&D investment changes dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s U.S. firms are the uncontested world leaders in R&D investment in most manufacturing sectors. Later, led by ...

Title: International Consumption Insurance and Within-Country Risk Reallocation Author(s): LO PRETE, Anna Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Institutions meant to reallocate risks that cannot be fully diversified on financial markets, such as labour income fluctuations, may also affect the response of aggregate consumption to country-specific income shocks. ...

Title: International Finance and Policy Cooperation: Before and After the 2007-2010 Financial Crisis Author(s): KONOE, Sara Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess regional and international policy cooperation in financial regulation from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Despite the development of regulatory and supervisory standards from Basel I ...

Title: International Human Rights and Canadian Law. Legal Commitment, Implementation and the Charter Author(s): BEAULAC, Stephane; SCHABAS, William A Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Book

Title: International Schumpeterian competition and optimal R&D subsidies Author(s): IMPULLITI, Giammario Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...

Title: Interpreting Murder Medically A Medico-Legal Case from an Early 20th Century European Periphery Author(s): SKÅLEVÅG, Svein Atle Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper takes as its departure point a murder case from 1911, when four siblings killed their younger brother in a remote location in northern Norway. This episode becomes an occasion for discussing medical and juridical ...

Title: Inventing Russian History: ‘Reflections on Russia’ – an unearthed essay by Yakov Ivanovič Bulgakov (1743-1809) Author(s): VELIZHEV, Mikhail Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the anonymous article “Reflections on Russia, or Some Remarks on Russians Civil and Moral Status Until Peter I’s Reign” published in 1807 in the Moscow literary magazine “Messenger of Europe”. ‘Reflections’ ...

Title: Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination Author(s): SCHUETT, Florian Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...

Title: Inventors and Impostors: an Economic Analysis of Patent Examination Author(s): SCHUETT, Florian Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications – those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and non-obviousness – should be accepted, while bad ...

Title: Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary Author(s): LEVINE, David K. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...

Title: Is Contract Law Necessary? Author(s): SCHWARTZ, Alan Date: 2010-10-22 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This Lecture argues that much of the contract law in the cases (the US, the UK and Canada) and in the codes (Europe and Latin America) is unnecessary. To say that a law is unnecessary is to say that it does not perform a ...

Title: Is there a Tension between Transparency and Efficiency in Decisions? The case of the Council of the European Union Author(s): NOVAK, Stéphanie Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Decision makers sometimes refer to the tension between transparency and efficiency in decisions. Yet, this argument is not so obvious, partly because the notion of efficiency is unclear. As a first step in the analysis of ...

Title: The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment Author(s): CATIGNANI, Sergio Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The following paper analyzes the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency strategy and campaign carried out against the Palestinian insurgency within the Occupied/Disputed Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...

Title: Italian Ambassadorial Networks in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Author(s): FLETCHER, Catherine; DESILVA, Jennifer Mara Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: (No abstract as this is an introduction to a special edition of the journal.)

Title: Italian colonial policy in Libya and the pious foundations Author(s): GAZZINI, Claudia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article

Title: The Janus Face of EU Migration Governance: Impairing democratic governance at home – improving it abroad? Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In the field of European Union (EU) migration policies, a large number of legal, administrative, and institutional tightening measures have been established in the name of domestic security since the early 1990s. These ...

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