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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 ...
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    Title: The Post-national Constellation of Industrial Relations Systems in the European Legal Order  Author(s): COMANDÈ, Daniela Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed marriage and flexibility of Shari'a in interwar Yugoslavia  Author(s): BURIC, Fedja Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper discusses the cases of pragmatic conversions to, and out of, Islam in interwar Yugoslavia. It analyzes these cases in the context of Sharia law, which, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom of ...
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    Title: Pre-announcement and Timing - The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...
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    Title: Pre-Announcement and Timing. The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock  Author(s): KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...
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    Title: Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation  Author(s): SVETIEV, Yane Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: The Privatization of Military and Security Services and the Limits of Contract Law  Author(s): CALDERAI, Valentina Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP;2010/31 Abstract: A growing body of literature has focused in recent years on the potentialities for market mechanisms to improve the enforcement of international human rights law against the breaches committed by private military and ...
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    Title: Productivity Growth, Bounded Marginal Utility, and Patterns of Trade  Author(s): SAURE, Philip Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The workhorse model of the New Trade Theory fails to explain four strong and central patterns of postwar trade data. These patterns are, first, the massive increase in trade volumes, second, the small fraction of traded ...
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    Title: Pseudomarkets with Priorities in Large Random Assignment Economies  Author(s): MIRALLES, Antonio Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: I study large random assignment economies with a continuum of agents and a finite number of object types. I consider the existence of weak priorities discriminating among agents with respect to their rights concerning the ...
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    Title: The Public-Private Wage Differential in the West Bank and Gaza: Before and During the Second Intifada  Author(s): MIAARI, Sami H. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper measures the public-private wage differential in the West Bank and Gaza and describes its dynamics before and during the second Intifada using data from the Palestinian Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the Palestinian ...
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    Title: A Purely Formal Theory of Law – The Deontic Network  Author(s): QUIRICO, Ottavio Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: From the analytical viewpoint a norm can formally be regarded as a right-duty (or claim-obligation) relation (1) that regulates behaviour (action/inaction) (2) among subjects (3) in definite space (4) and time (5). ...