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    Title: Measuring Proportionality. A Systematic Approach to World Electoral Systems in Parliamentary Elections between 1946-2000  Author(s): RUIZ-RUFINO, Rubén Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper proposes a new way to measure proportionality using aggregated threshold functions. Electoral systems can be summarized by a single value that shows the necessary share of the total vote to win half of the seats ...
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    Title: Memory Politics in Western Europe  Author(s): ART, David Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines how ten West European states have dealt with the legacy of the Second World
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    Title: Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security: Political-Economy Effect  Author(s): SAND, Edith; RAZIN, Assaf Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: NBER Working Paper
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    Title: Models of the Origins of Law. An Attempt at Appraisal from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory  Author(s): ZALUSKI, Wojciech Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money  Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, Pedro Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money  Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, Pedro Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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, ...
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    Title: More Secrecy...More Knowledge Disclosure? On Disclosure Outside of Patents  Author(s): PONCE, Carlos J. Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Height  Author(s): AKACHI, Yoko; CANNING, David Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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. ...
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    Title: Motor vehicles vs. dollars: selling socialist cars in neutral markets. Some evidence from the ŠKODA Auto case.  Author(s): FAVA, Valentina Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper analyses the relationship of Škoda Auto with its dealers in the neutral countries in the years from 1948 to 1964. The takeover by the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1948 and the rising tensions of the Cold War ...
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    Title: Multilevel Judicial Governance between Global and Regional Economic Integration. Systems: Institutional and Substantive Aspects  Author(s): LAVRANOS, Nikolaos Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The Brazilian Tyres case that was adjudicated by both MERCOSUR and WTO dispute settlement bodies illustrates the issues raised by multilevel judicial governance. The relationship between regional and global trading systems ...
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    Title: National Identity and Political Identity: Resolving the Stateless Nationalists’ Dilemma  Author(s): LLUCH, Jaime Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The internal political tendencies making up national movements tend to bifurcate or, at times, trifurcate, into two or three basic nationalist orientations: independentist nationalism, autonomist nationalism, and federalist ...
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    Title: National Regulatory Models for PMSCs and Implications for Future International Regulation  Author(s): QUIRICO, Ottavio Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: What is the current state of the regulation in the matter of private military and security companies (PMSCs)? This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the existing national legislations concerning PMSCs in a number ...
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    Title: National Security – a Trump Card? The European Court of Human Rights decisions in Herri Batasuna and Batasuna v. Spain, Etxeberria and Others v. Spain and Herritarren Zerrenda v. Spain  Author(s): LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: On 30 June 2009, the European Court of Human Rights delivered three decisions deriving from the situation in the Basque country, Herri Batasuna and Batasuna v. Spain, Etxeberría and Others v. Spain and Herritarren Zerrenda ...
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    Title: Neoliberalism’s Three Faces  Author(s): LEE MUDGE, Stephanie Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Neoliberalism is oft invoked but ill-defined in the social sciences. This paper develops a tripartite definition of neoliberalism using tools from institutionalism and field theory. It argues that neoliberalism is a sui ...
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    Title: Nested Models and Model Uncertainty  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
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    Title: Nested Models and Model Uncertainty  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
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    Title: Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy  Author(s): DIAZ-GIMENEZ, Javier; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; MARIMON, Ramon; TELES, Pedro Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We characterize the optimal sequential choice of monetary policy in economies with either nominal or indexed debt. In a model where nominal debt is the only source of time inconsistency, the Markov-perfect equilibrium ...
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    Title: Non-domination and the State: A Response to the Subaltern Critique  Author(s): LAMBA, Rinku Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this paper is to create some positive conceptual space for the relevance of the instrumentalities of the state when it comes to the politics of religious and multicultural accommodation. The challenge is to steer ...
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    Title: Nuclear Weapons and Limited War: The U.S. Army in the 1950s  Author(s): TRAUSCHWEIZER, Ingo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This essay discusses how the U.S. Army proved its utility for the nuclear age in the wake of the Korean War. It specifically addresses the rationale behind the reorganization of U.S. Army formations into pentomic divisions ...
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    Title: Objective Knowledge in Social Sciences and Humanities: Karl Popper and Beyond  Author(s): VALENTINI, Chiara; MARIMON, Ramon; VALENTINI, Chiara; BLACKBURN, Simon; CLELAND, Carol; POSTEMA, Gerald; COLLINS, Harry; CRUIKSHANK, Justin; VANDENBERGHE, Frédéric Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This collection of papers addresses the issue of ‘objective vs. subjective’ knowledge in the social sciences and humanities: how we may get ‘objective’ knowledge out of ‘subjective’ perceptions; how ‘induction’ and ‘deduction’ ...