Title:Specification tests for the distribution of errors in nonparametric regression: a martingale approach
Author(s):MORA, Juan; PEREZ-ALONSO, AliciaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We discuss how to test whether the distribution of regression errors belongs to a
parametric family of continuous distribution functions, making no parametric
assumption about the conditional mean or the conditional ...
Title:Spinster, Prostitute or Pioneer? Images of Refugee Women in Post-Partition Calcutta
Author(s):SEN, UditiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper explores the various images or stereotypes regarding Bengali middle-class refugee women that circulated in post-partition West Bengal. It identifies four main discursive images or constructions of refugee women: ...
Title:The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis
Author(s):COOLEY, Thomas F.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the
decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009
compensation was ...
Title:State and Civil Society as defined by the Muslim Brothers in Europe
Author(s):LARISE, DunjaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the last ten years political Islam, as well as its aims and strategies, has developed into one of the most discussed political issues in Europe. Nevertheless scant attention has been paid to the concrete theoretical ...
Title:State Discretion as a Paradox of EU Evolution
Author(s):FOROWICZ, MagdalenaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The notion of State discretion is a fundamental concept for the determination of powers and the effective functioning of regional and international legal systems. It is an inherently controversial notion in a system such ...
Title:State of the Art? Advances in Explaining Women’s Employment Patterns
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial
differences in women’s employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers
research that emphasises ...
Title:States and Migration Industries in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea
Author(s):SURAK, KristinDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Among the crescendo of calls for “systemic” approaches to the study of international migration, a small body of literature has emerged around what might be termed the migration industry, or the matrix of border-spanning ...
Title:Stochastic Stability in Binary Choice Coordination Games
Author(s):STAUDIGL, MathiasDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recent literature in evolutionary game theory is devoted to the question of robust equilibrium selection under noisy best-response dynamics. In this paper we present a complete picture of equilibrium selection for asymmetric ...
Title:The strange non-death of multiculturalism
Author(s):MODOOD, TariqDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...
Title:Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence
Author(s):CASAS, AgustinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...
Title:Striking a pose : transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent years, transparency (or the lack thereof) has become a central concern of the European Union and its attempts to increase the democratic legitimacy of the legislative decision-making process. The claim regularly ...
Title:The Structure of the Lattices of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria of Binary Games of Strategic Complements
Author(s):RODRIGUEZ BARRAQUER, TomasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:It has long been established in the literature that the set of pure strategy Nash equilibria of any binary game of strategic complements among a set N of players can be seen as a lattice on the set of all subsets of N under ...
Title:Suffering as a Political Situation: A Phenomenological Approach
Author(s):GATTA, GiuniaDate:2010-10-22Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that, despite resistance by many to its incorporation into public discourse, suffering is a constitutive element of politics today, both a consequence of and a motive for political action. I consider ...
Title:Sunspots and Multiplicity
Author(s):HOELLE, MatthewDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper proves that a multiplicity of certainty equilibria is not necessary for the existence of
sunspot effects in two-period general equilibrium models with incomplete markets. Sunspot effects are present, by definition, ...
Title:Survey on Research Funding for the Social Sciences in Europe
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; GUARDIANCICH, Igor; MARIATHASAN, Mike; ROSSI, EvaDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From mid-2010 through early 2011, the Academic Careers Observatory (ACO) of the Max Weber Programme (MWP) carried out three separate surveys of economists, sociologists and political scientists, the majority of whom held ...