Title:Macroeconomic Policy, Evolution, and Self-Confirming Equilibrium
Author(s):SARGENT, Thomas J.Date:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper uses policy disputes about centuries of experience with commodity money
systems and US monetary policy in the 1970s and 1980s to illustrate macroeconomists'
enduring struggles with Hume's induction problem and ...
Title:Making Sense of Judicial Lawmaking: a Theory of Theories of Adjudication
Author(s):DYEVRE, ArthurDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Engaging with the literature on courts and judicial politics, this article argues that one
should distinguish between three theoretical approaches to adjudication and,
correspondingly, three families of theories of ...
Title:Marcel Mauss — Durkheimien oder eigenständiger Klassiker der französischen Soziologie?
Author(s):ADLOFF, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Seit etwa Mitte der 1990er Jahre wird in Frankreich eine intensive Debatte über den eigenständigen Beitrag
Marcel Mauss’ zur soziologischen Theorie geführt. An diese Debatte anschließend zeigt der Aufsatz,
dass Mauss, ...
Title:Matching Theory and Data: Bayesian Vector Autoregression and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper shows how to identify the structural shocks of a Vector Autoregression (VAR) while simultaneously estimating a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model that is not assumed to replicate the data-generating ...
Title:Matching Theory and Data: Bayesian Vector Autoregression and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper shows how to identify the structural shocks of a Vector Autoregression (VAR) while simultaneously estimating a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model that is not assumed to replicate the data-generating ...
Title:Max Weber in the 21st Century: Transdisciplinarity within the Social Sciences
Author(s):ADLOFF, Frank; BORUTTA, ManuelDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Table of Contents
Foreword
Ramon Marimon
I. Max Weber in the 21st Century or: how is
Transdisciplinarity within the Social Sciences
Possible Today? 01
by Frank Adloff and Manuel Borutta
II. Max Weber between ‘Eruptive ...
Title:Memory Politics in Western Europe
Author(s):ART, DavidDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper examines how ten West European states have dealt with the legacy of the Second World
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:Models of the Origins of Law. An Attempt at Appraisal from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory
Author(s):ZALUSKI, WojciechDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this article I make an attempt at evaluating in the light of evolutionary theory various
models of the origins of law proposed in philosophical literature. I start by presenting a
classification of the models. As a ...
Title:Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, PedroDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancingmechanims in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, ...
Title:Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money
Author(s):MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, PedroDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanisms in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without ...
Title:More Secrecy...More Knowledge Disclosure? On Disclosure Outside of Patents
Author(s):PONCE, Carlos J.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:It is an important concern that innovators by waiving their patent rights might obstruct
the disclosure of knowledge and therefore retard progress. This paper explores this
concern by using a simple model of two innovators ...
Title:Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Height
Author(s):AKACHI, Yoko; CANNING, DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In most developing countries, rising levels of nutrition and improvements in public health have led to declines in infant mortality and rising adult height. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, we see a different pattern. ...