Title:Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequality
Author(s):ROSANVALLON, PierreDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:We live in a time of counter-revolution. Since the 1980s, reversing a century-old trend towards fewer inequalities, the richest among us have kept accumulating revenues and possessions.
The economic and social roots of ...
Title:The return from the return to narrative
Author(s):DE VRIES, JanDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
Title:Richelieu
Author(s):D'ALBIS, CécileDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il est très difficile de connaître un homme dont ses flatteurs ont dit tant de bien, et ses ennemis tant de mal », écrivait Voltaire. Cardinal et ministre de Louis XIII pendant près de vingt ans, Richelieu a dirigé la ...
Title:Richelieu. A Role of Action and its Legacy
Author(s):D'ALBIS, CécileDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Biography, a difficult and ambiguous genre, the most popular in all of literature, has played such an important role in the meaning of the individual self in western civilization. Its history has also followed the main ...
Title:Rights of Non-humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law
Author(s):TEUBNER, GuntherDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:Lecture Delivered January 17th 2007. Personification of non-humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the
uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from
causation ...
Title:The Rise of Global Legalism
Author(s):POSNER, Eric ADate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to
global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to
legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
Title:The Role of Curvature in the Transformation Frontier for Measuring Technology Shocks
Author(s):MENNUNI, AlessandroDate:2010-10-28Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the usual version of the neoclassical growth model used to identify neutral (N-Shock) and investment shocks (I-Shock), a linear transformation frontier between consumption and investment goods is assumed. This paper ...
Title:The Role of Institutions in Cosmopolitan Justice
Author(s):MIKLOS, AndrasDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of theories about the role of institutions in cosmopolitan justice. Some philosophers claim that principles of egalitarian justice apply to institutional schemes only, ...
Title:The Role of Intellectual Property in Joint Innovation and Development
Author(s):SVETIEV, YaneDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on the role of intellectual property (IP) in structuring and governing innovative ventures between independent firms. The issue is particularly important given the tendency towards vertical disintegration ...
Title:The Role of log Transformation in Forecasting Economic Variables
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; XU, FangDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:For forecasting and economic analysis many variables are used in logarithms (logs). In time series
analysis this transformation is often considered to stabilize the variance of a series. We investigate
under which ...
Title:The “Rougemarine Dilemma”: how much Trust does a State Deserve when it Subsidises Cultural Goods and Services?
Author(s):GERMANN, ChristopheDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on the way welfare states distribute subsidies to cultural industries. It
takes the example of the film industry and analyses jurisprudence which addresses socalled
“selective state aid” schemes based ...
Title:Rule Application in EU and US Conciliation Committees
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Important rules regulating conciliation committees in the EU and the U.S. look similar but are applied very differently in practice. This article examines why rule application is different in the two systems. In accordance ...
Title:Sample Kurtosis, GARCH-t and the Degrees of Freedom Issue
Author(s):HERACLEOUS, Maria S.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Econometric modeling based on the Student's t distribution introduces an additional
parameter -- the degree of freedom. In this paper we use a simulation study to
investigate the ability of (i) the GARCH-t model (Bollerslev, ...
Title:Sanction as a Viable Tool for Promoting Cooperation: A Cognitive and Simulation Model
Author(s):ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia; VILLATORO, DanielDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Punishment plays a crucial role in achieving and maintaining norm compliance. Several works have shown that cooperation greatly increases when punishment opportunities are allowed. However, these studies have mainly looked ...
Title:Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments
Author(s):GAZZINI, ClaudiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...