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 ...
Title:Acceptance and Social Rules
Author(s):PERRY, AdamDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
Title:Action publique et partis politiques
: l’analyse de l’agenda législatif français entre 1981 et 2009
Author(s):PERSICO, Simon; FROIO, Caterina; GUINAUDEAU, IsabelleDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Competition among partisan projects is often cited as a constitutive element of all representative democracies. While the Francophone and English-medium research literature have viewed the link between partisan competition ...
Title:Addressing Liability of Automated Systems in Air Traffic Management
Author(s):CONTISSA, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the current operational scenario of Air Traffic Management (ATM), liability is mainly allocated to the operators who are responsible for air traffic control and air navigation. However, this scenario will rapidly change: ...
Title:After Liberation: the Journey Home of Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-46
Author(s):CICHOPEK, AnnaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I tell the stories of Jewish survivors who made their way to their hometowns in
Poland and Slovakia between the fall of 1944 and summer 1948. I describe liberation by the
Soviet Army and attitudes toward ...
Title:"Against Accountability"
Author(s):MANSBRIDGE, JaneDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LS;Abstract:Although relatively corrupt regimes require citizen monitoring and accountability enforced by the threat of sanction, this kind of relationship between citizens and their agents is inefficient and normatively unsatisfying. ...
Title:Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote
Author(s):KATSANIDOU, AlexiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...
Title:Air Traffic Management in the Single European Sky: Standardisation of safety and liability issues
Author(s):SIMONCINI, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper aims to analyse the European system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a specific case study of risk regulation in the framework of the European integration process. At the present, the implementation of the ...
Title:Algeciras Revisited: European Crisis and Conference Diplomacy,16 January - 7 April 1906
Author(s):JONES, HeatherDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In 1905, Europe was faced with a serious diplomatic crisis over Morocco. In fact, the tensions this crisis unleashed were so significant that to this day it is constantly cited as one of the factors that led to the outbreak ...
Title:'All’s well that ends well' : the strategy of electoral (mis)behavior in competitive-authoritarian regimes
Author(s):LEVIN, InesDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions and periodic elections are sponsored by the authoritarian ruler, but voting outcomes are sometimes manipulated to prevent government turnover. In this ...
Title:Appetite for Beef: How much meat did early New Yorkers consume?
Author(s):BAICS, GergelyDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Drawing on new archival data for the period from 1790 to 1818, this paper documents how much red meat per capita was consumed by an average New Yorker in the early Republican era, a period for which no systematic figures ...
Title:The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to “Transnational” Armed Conflicts
Author(s):VASHAKMADZE, MindiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:States are increasingly involved in violent conflicts with non-state actors. This new situation
challenges the classical distinction of international humanitarian law (IHL) between international and
non-international ...
Title:Are Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality Greater in a more Equal Society?
Author(s):HOFFMANN, RasmusDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The magnitude of socioeconomic mortality differences changes between countries. This could be attributed to the level of social inequality and explicit policy interventions to address social inequality
in health. However, ...