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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’ ...
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    Title: “Often we are deceived, and we suffer glaucoma”. Rethinking Legal Humanism in the History of the Western Rights Tradition  Author(s): LONGFIELD KARR, Susan Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This working paper argues for renewed attention by scholars of early modern political and legal thought as to how and why humanist jurists invoked the authority of rights—natural and customary—to legitimize or to critique ...
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    Title: Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 1956-1969  Author(s): BINI, Elisabetta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the ways in which U.S. oil companies transformed Libya’s economy and society between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 1969, as the country became one of the main oil ...
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    Title: On Acting and Knowing  Author(s): FRIEDRICHS, Jörg; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in epistemology and research methodology. To begin with, we show why many social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain warranted knowledge in practical ...
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    Title: On the Attribution to an International Organization of the Activity of Private Companies that Operate on its Account  Author(s): MAGI, Laura Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The increasing outsourcing of the activities of international organizations to private companies, especially in security and military fields, raises the question whether the conduct of private companies can be attributed ...
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    Title: On the Need to Regulate Competing Jurisdictions between International Courts and Tribunals  Author(s): LAVRANOS, Nikolaos Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Competing jurisdiction is a relatively new but increasingly important phenomenon in international law. The ongoing proliferation of international courts and tribunals results in a multiplication of judgments and arbitral ...
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    Title: On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
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    Title: On the Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding  Author(s): THAL, Jeanine Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: I consider an adverse selection model of product quality to analyze a firm's incentives to sell different products under an umbrella brand. My main result is that umbrella branding can signal positive quality correlation ...
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    Title: On the Strategic Use of the Preliminary Reference System: Plausible Assumptions v. Empirical Reality  Author(s): SLEPCEVIC, Reinhard Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, I examine a central assumption of the neo-functionalist theory of European integration empirically: that interest groups use the preliminary reference system strategically in order to pursue their policy ...
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    Title: Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation  Author(s): SIMON, Jenny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Optimal Public Rationing: Price response and cost effectiveness  Author(s): GRASSI, Simona; MA, Ching-to Albert Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We study optimal public rationing of an indivisible good and private sector price response. Consumers differ in their wealth and cost of provisions. Due to a limited budget, some consumers must be rationed. Public rationing ...
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    Title: The Paradoxical Masculinity of French Soldiers: Representing the Soldier’s Body in the Age of the Enlightenment  Author(s): SERIU, Naoko Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the age of Enlightment, France did not succeed in imposing its military prestige, in contrast with the preceding century. In the second half of the eighteenth century, especially at the end of the Seven Years’ War ...
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    Title: Party Competition, Corruption and Electoral Behaviour in the new EU Member States  Author(s): ZAPRYANOVA, Galina Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: What accounts for the electoral successes of Eurosceptic and populist political parties in Central and East Europe? Citizens in the region have expressed their support for these types of parties in recent elections while, ...
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    Title: Peer Effects in Free School Meals: Information or stigma?  Author(s): JAMES, Jonathan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates peer effects in the take up of a welfare programme, free school meals, using the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) which collects data on every child attending school in England. To explore ...
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    Title: The Political Effects of Becoming a Citizen: Solution or selection?  Author(s): STREET, Alex Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, ...
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    Title: Political Representation and Income Inequality  Author(s): HAKHVERDIAN, Armen Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally known as the median or mean voter, or is government policy more responsive to socio-economic elites? This paper examines ...
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    Title: Politicizing Consumption: On the Contested Role of the Consumer in the Weimar Republic  Author(s): TORP, Claudius Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the Weimar Republic, consumption served as a vanguard point from which to redefine the relation between politics and economics. This paper traces the way the figure of the consumer was conceptualized in different ...