Title:Pre-Announcement and Timing. The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...
Title:Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation
Author(s):SVETIEV, YaneDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:A question that is central to current debates about the Europeanisation of private law is that of how to conceptualise the relationship between European law and national private law. And a key aspect of that question is ...
Title:The Privatization of Military and Security Services and the Limits of Contract Law
Author(s):CALDERAI, ValentinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/31Abstract:A growing body of literature has focused in recent years on the potentialities for market mechanisms to improve the enforcement of international human rights law against the breaches committed by private military and ...
Title:Productivity Growth, Bounded Marginal Utility, and Patterns of Trade
Author(s):SAURE, PhilipDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The workhorse model of the New Trade Theory fails to explain four strong and central
patterns of postwar trade data. These patterns are, first, the massive increase in trade
volumes, second, the small fraction of traded ...
Title:Protecting European law from international law
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution analyses the relationship between international law and Community law in the light of two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases on Article 307 EC, that is, the Kadi and bilateral investment treaties ...
Title:Pseudomarkets with Priorities in Large Random Assignment Economies
Author(s):MIRALLES, AntonioDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I study large random assignment economies with a continuum of agents and a finite number of object types. I consider the existence of weak priorities discriminating among agents with respect to their rights concerning the ...
Title:The Public-Private Wage Differential in the West Bank and Gaza: Before and During the Second Intifada
Author(s):MIAARI, Sami H.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper measures the public-private wage differential in the West Bank and Gaza and describes its dynamics before and during the second Intifada using data from the Palestinian Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the Palestinian ...
Title:Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy
Author(s):LACEY, NicolaDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...
Title:A Purely Formal Theory of Law – The Deontic Network
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:From the analytical viewpoint a norm can formally be regarded as a right-duty (or claim-obligation) relation (1) that regulates behaviour (action/inaction) (2) among subjects (3) in definite space (4) and time (5). ...
Title:Putting Direct Perpetrators on Trial: the Ovcara Massacre Trial in Belgrade
Author(s):MAHIEU, StephanieDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper is based on ethnographical fieldwork conducted in The Hague, Croatia and Serbia. It addresses the distinction between command and individual responsibility on the one hand, and between individual responsibility ...
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:The Reasonable Adjustment of Basic Liberties. Liberalism and Judicial Balancing
Author(s):VALENTINI, ChiaraDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on the “balancing” model of constitutional adjudication, conceived as a decisionmaking
approach aimed to establish a “reasonable” equilibrium among conflicting norms of
constitutional rank, so as to ...
Title:Rechtswahlfreiheit im europäischen Kollisionsrecht
Author(s):RÜHL, GieselaDate:2008Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:During the last couple of years the European legislator has devoted much attention to private international law. Numerous regulations, proposals for regulations and green papers indicate that the entire field will be fully ...