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:Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness
Author(s):BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, SofiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...
Title:Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation
Author(s):SVETIEV, YaneDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:A question that is central to current debates about the Europeanisation of private law is that of how to conceptualise the relationship between European law and national private law. And a key aspect of that question is ...
Title:Lost in transmission : evaluating internet effects on citizens’attitudes towards the European Union in times of crisis
Author(s):BACCINI, Leonardo; SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, Matthew T.Date:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Previous studies suggest that citizens' attitudes towards the European Union (EU) are influenced by media coverage of EU institutions and policies. To date, empirical studies have investigated the effects of TV and newspaper ...
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:Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
Author(s):COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, EoinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
Title:The Post-national Constellation of Industrial Relations Systems in the European Legal Order
Author(s):COMANDÈ, DanielaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper develops a new interpretation of the norms of the Treaty of Lisbon to find the juridical basis for an autonomous system of European industrial relations. In particular, the study explores the question of whether ...
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: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:Trends in Income Inequality, Intertemporal Variability, and Mobility Risk in Thirty Countries
Author(s):NICHOLS, Austin; REHM, PhilippDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We apply a novel decomposition of panel data on individual incomes in 30 countries and find the US is exceptional in its increases of income risk over the last decades. Income risk is decomposed into long-run inequality, ...
Title:WIPO and the Public-Private Web of Global Intellectual Property Governance
Author(s):WECHSLER, AndreaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has always been recognized as an important international economic institution for the global governance of intellectual property (IP) law. Moreover, its role in promoting, ...
Title:The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions
Author(s):GIANI, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
Title:Financial Crisis Resolution
Author(s):SCHROTH, JosefDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crises. A pecuniary ...
Title:Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...
Title:Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government
Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:How does the presence of financial markets shape the government's ability to implement social redistribution? Individuals do not typically constrain consumption to equal their net-of-tax income every period. Instead, access ...
Title:Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence
Author(s):CASAS, AgustinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...