Title:Early conclusion in the co-decision legislative procedure
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:There are broader democratic implications in whether legislative deals are concluded between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers in the co-decision procedure at first reading, as the potential of different ...
Title:The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Integration Outcomes
Author(s):AVITABILE, Ciro; CLOTS-FIGUERAS, Irma; MASELLA, PaoloDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides empirical evidence on whether child legal status at birth affects the level of
cultural integration of immigrant parents with native community. We consider the 1999 reform of the
German nationality ...
Title:The Effect of Capital Controls on Exchange Rate Risk
Author(s):VERSTEEG, Roald; STRAETMANS, StefanDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP;2010/33Abstract:Many countries try to smooth their exchange rate movements by means of capital controls or otherwise. By the use of statistical extreme value analysis, we investigate if capital controls succeed in lowering foreign exchange ...
Title:The Effect of Language at School on Identity and Political Outlooks
Author(s):ASPACHS-BRACONS, Oriol; CLOTS-FIGUERAS, Irma; MASELLA, PaoloDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The process of individual identity formation is still an enigma, as it is the capacity of public bodies to intervene in it. In 1983 the Catalan education system became bilingual, and Catalan, together with Spanish, was ...
Title:Eight Degrees of Separation
Author(s):PIN, PaoloDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We present a network formation game whose equilibria are undirected networks. Every connected couple contributes to the aggregate payoff by a fixed quantity, and the outcome is split between players according to the Myerson ...
Title:The Elusive Impact of Investing Abroad for Japanese Parent Firms: Can an Analysis of the Motives for FDI help?
Author(s):HERING, Laura; INNUI, Tomohiko; PONCET, SandraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We investigate whether previous findings of only limited effects of investing abroad on the
performance of firms can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the
motive for foreign direct ...
Title:Embedding "political consumerism" : a conceptual critique
Author(s):BALSIGER, PhilipDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper develops a theoretically and empirically founded critique of the concept of political consumerism. In the course of the last decade, political consumerism was “discovered” as a new form of political participation, ...
Title:Empathy, Situations, and an Enlarged Mentality: Iterations between Jaspers and Arendt
Author(s):GATTA, GiuniaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper has the broad goal of inquiring into the role of empathy in contemporary interpretations of judgment as enlarged mentality. Specifically, it puts Hannah Arendt in dialogue with Karl Jaspers, her mentor and friend, ...
Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy
Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
Title:The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state
Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
Title:The Epilogue in the MOX Plant Dispute: An end without findings
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyses the end of the MOX plant dispute, which was recently terminated by the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal. It is demonstrated that neither the ECJ nor the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal discussed the substance of the ...