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Title: The Tortuous Path to the European System of Financial Supervision Author(s): GIANI, Leonardo Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The regulatory response to the financial crisis has necessitated (and it still is necessitating) the adoption of a vast array of legal reforms. However, some of the elements of these reforms have departed from their ...

Title: Toward a Military History for the Cold War: a Bibliographic Essay Author(s): TRAUSCHWEIZER, Ingo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This essay discusses the historiography of the Cold War from the perspective of American policy and strategy, civil-military relations, and politico-military culture. It presents the history and historical literature of ...

Title: Towards socially sensitive corporate restructuring? Comparative remarks on collective bargaining developments in Germany, France and Italy Author(s): BONI, Guido Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Rapidly changing markets in the context of globalization call for increasingly frequent restructuring to sustain the competitiveness of individual firms. To meet this need while minimizing consequent job loss, the social ...

Title: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes Author(s): HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, Stephen Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: 2011/03 Abstract: This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching ...

Title: Trade Liberalization, Offshoring and Firm Heterogeneity Author(s): REBEYROL, Vincent Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization in a model where heterogeneous firms can freely offshore their production. Firms choose whether to produce, and if so whether to sell on the domestic market only or ...

Title: Trade Unions and New Member State Workers in Germany and the UK Author(s): ZAHN, Rebecca Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the European enlargements in 2004 and 2007 that are unprecedented in the history of the European Union (EU). In particular, ...

Title: Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit Author(s): JOAS, Hans; ADLOFF, Frank Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...

Title: Transgovernmental Networks as Catalysts for Democratic Change? EU Functional Cooperation with Arab Authoritarian Regimes and Socialization of Involved State Officials into Democratic Governance Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: With the European Neighbourhood Policy, the European Union (EU) intensified functional cooperation in a wide range of sectors. This contribution investigates whether this kind of transnational exchange can trigger subtle ...

Title: Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland Author(s): NYGÅRD, Stefan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...

Title: Transnational Employer Lobbying when one Size does not fit all: Anglo-German Wrangles under the UNICE Umbrella, 1970-2003 Author(s): CALLAGHAN, Helen Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Transnational interest groups can lobby forcefully if and only if national member associations agree on a policy stance. This paper explores the conditions for transnational cohesion by examining German and British employer ...

Title: Transnational spaces in history Author(s): JONES, Heather; STEFFEN, Katrin; KOHLRAUSCH, Martin; TOKIĆ, Mate Nikola; LEBOUTTE, Rene; MULLER, Michael; TORP, Cornelius; GRELL, Ole Peter; TERRASA-LOZANO, Antonio; CRANG, Philip; ASHMORE, Sonia; LINDNER, Ulrike Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Trends in Income Inequality, Intertemporal Variability, and Mobility Risk in Thirty Countries Author(s): NICHOLS, Austin; REHM, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We apply a novel decomposition of panel data on individual incomes in 30 countries and find the US is exceptional in its increases of income risk over the last decades. Income risk is decomposed into long-run inequality, ...

Title: Turnout and Policy: The role of candidates Author(s): VALASEK, Justin Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Turnout is an important determinant of which candidate wins an election. Since candidates know this, it follows that they will consider turnout when choosing their policy platforms. In this paper I formally examine the ...

Title: The Two Sides of Functional Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes: A multi-level perspective on the conflict of objectives between political stability and democratic change Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Development cooperation exemplifies the conflict of foreign policy objectives between short-term political stability and long-term democratic change that international actors face in their relations with authoritarian ...

Title: Una Conciliazione Impossibile? Famiglia e Lavoro nell’Inghilterra del Secondo Dopoguerra Author(s): BERNINI, Stefania Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism Author(s): GUARDIANCICH, Igor Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and Eastern Europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party ...

Title: Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals Author(s): COMAROFF, Jean Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS

Title: Understanding ‘Chance and Uncertainty’ in Clausewitz’s On War: Reflections on the Balkan Wars (1991-1995) Author(s): FLEMING, Colin M. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the opening chapter of Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War (1831), he explains to readers that ‘only one more element is needed to make war a gamble 'chance'. No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up ...

Title: Unemployment Insurance and Home Production Author(s): TASKIN, Temel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...

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