Title:Credibilty Concerns in Optimal Policy Design
Author(s):LU, Yang K.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides a transparent framework for thinking about optimal investment in reputation by a trustworthy government. This topic has been neglected by the existing literature on reputation games but is potentially ...
Title:The Crisis in Context: Democratic capitalism and its contradictions
Author(s):STREECK, WolfgangDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:The “financial crisis” and its sequel, the current sovereign debt crisis, appear to be the latest permutations of an old conflict between capitalism and democracy that forcefully reasserted itself after the end of the ...
Title:Dating Cinderella: On subsidiarity as a political safeguard of federalism in the European Union
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of the debate on the subsidiarity principle. Subsidiarity is one of the most ambiguous and debated notions in law, and it definitively belongs to all the legal ...
Title:Decentralising the Active Welfare State: The relevance of intergovernmental structures in Italy and Spain
Author(s):LÓPEZ-SANTANA, Mariely; MOYER, RossellaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures ...
Title:Decision Makers Facing Uncertainty: Theory versus Evidence
Author(s):GIORDANI, Paolo; SCHLAG, Karl H.; ZWART, SanneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We consider three competing normative theories of how to make choices when facing
uncertainty: subjective expected utility, maximin utility and minimax regret. In simple
decision problems, we compare how decision makers ...
Title:The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: Obama's Libyan Intervention
Author(s):ACKERMAN, BruceDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:The lecture traces a series of political, bureaucratic, and military transformations that have, over the
past forty years, transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for charismatic
extremism and ...
Title:Democracy Promotion through Functional Cooperation? The case of the European neighbourhood policy
Author(s):FREYBURG, Tina; LAVENEX, Sandra; SCHIMMELFENNIG, Frank; SKRIPKA, Tatiana; WETZEL, AnneDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution explores whether and under what conditions functional sectoral cooperation between the EU and the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) promotes democratic governance. In an analysis of ...
Title:Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective
Author(s):POMERANZ, KennethDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Looked at in comparative perspective, among the most striking features of Qing political economy are the combination of highly commercialized agriculture with the strength of peasant land use rights – both through smallholding ...
Title:DGSE Model Evaluation and Hybrid Models: A Comparison
Author(s):PACCAGNINI, AlessiaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper discusses the estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models using hybrid models. These econometric tools provide the combination of an atheoretical statistical representation and the theoretical ...
Title:Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities
Author(s):WALDRON, JeremyDate:2010-10-28Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ...