Title:War, Diplomacy and Social Mobility: The Casali family in the service of Henry VIII
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By employing Gregorio Casali as his permanent representative at the curia from 1525, King Henry VIII of England acquired a diplomatic structure not uncommon in sixteenthcentury Europe: the family consortium. This article ...
Title:Judging in the Multilevel Legal Order: Exploring the Techniques of ‘Hidden Dialogue’
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this paper is to focus on that particular form of judicial conversation represented by what I have endeavoured to call the techniques of 'hidden dialogue' between the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the ...
Title:Does Europeanisation Weaken the Left? Changing coalitions and veto power in Swiss decision-making processes
Author(s):AFONSO, Alexandre; FONTANA, Marie-Christine; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses how Europeanisation affects the power resources of social democratic forces in Switzerland. Whereas political economy arguments would assume that processes of internationalisation invariably weaken ...
Title:Protecting European law from international law
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution analyses the relationship between international law and Community law in the light of two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases on Article 307 EC, that is, the Kadi and bilateral investment treaties ...
Title:Begrenzte Wahl: Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Erwerbsmuster in Paarhaushalten im europäischen Vergleich
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates employment patterns in couple households - and in particular their variability according to the presence and age of children. The aim of the comparative analysis of ten European countries, using ...
Title:Shifting from Academic ‘Brain Drain’ to ‘Brain Gain’ in Europe
Author(s):GRIGOLO, Michele; LIETAERT, Matthieu; MARIMON, RamonDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Many researchers trained in Europe leave to work abroad, particularly in the USA. This brain drain phenomenon is the result of a lack of openness and competition in European academic systems. Some changes relating to the ...
Title:WTO Origin Rules for Services and the Defects: Substantial Input Test as One Way Out?
Author(s):WANG, HengDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The origin of services is often one of the issues that regulators have to address to determine whether there is trade in services. It is also indispensable for the application of preferential trade commitments including ...
Title:Corporate Human Rights Obligations Under Stabilization Clauses
Author(s):LETNAR CERNIC, JernejDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Lawyers, economists and social scientists alike have for a number of years agreed that foreign investment has the potential to act as a catalyst for the enjoyment of an individual's fundamental human rights, particularly ...
Title:Modeling and Forecasting Stock Return Volatility Using a Random Level Shift Model
Author(s):LU, Yang K.; PERRON, PierreDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We consider the estimation of a random level shift model for which the series of interest is the sum of a short-memory process and a jump or level shift component. For the latter component, we specify the commonly used ...
Title:Cohousing's Relevance to Degrowth Theories
Author(s):LIETAERT, MatthieuDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In a context of ever faster globalisation, citizens and their environment are clearly put under pressure. This article introduces the cohousing movement as a model to make life more social and greener in an urban context. ...
Title:A Functional Coefficient Model View of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; XU, FangDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What does the saving-investment (SI) relation really measure and how should the SI relation be measured? These are two of the most discussed issues triggered by the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Based on panel data ...