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 ...
Title:A Recuperação Judicial de Sociedade por Ações: A preservação da empresa na lei de recuperação e falência
Author(s):NEDER CEREZETTI, Sheila ChristinaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:O tema da recuperação da empresa apresenta algumas peculiaridades e diversos dilemas. Pode-se optar por uma sociedade - e uma empresa - que se preocupa com sua autopreservação. Nessa hipótese, não há como não advertir e ...
Title:Recursive Contracts
Author(s):MARCET, Albert; MARIMON, RamonDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We obtain a recursive formulation for a general class of contracting problems involving incentive constraints. These constraints make the corresponding maximization sup problems non-recursive. Our approach consists of ...
Title:Reflections on the Legal Role of the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) in EU Affairs After Lisbon
Author(s):FAHEY, ElaineDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The process of the first failed referendum in 2008 on the Treaty and the extensive political campaign
to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon a second time around brought with it a tremendous period of reflection
not merely for ...
Title:The Refoundation of Symmetric Equilibrium in Schumpeterian Growth Models
Author(s):COZZI, Guido; GIORDANI, Paolo; ZAMPARELLI, LucaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We provide a refoundation of the symmetric growth equilibrium characterizing the research sector of vertical R&D-driven growth models. We argue that the usual assumptions made in this class of models leave the agents ...
Title:Regional Sustainable Development in the European Alps
Author(s):BALSIGER, JörgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whereas transboundary regionalism has become a dominant trend in European and international economic and political integration, contemporary earth system governance continues to be characterized by functionally separated ...