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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). ...
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    Title: Putting Direct Perpetrators on Trial: the Ovcara Massacre Trial in Belgrade  Author(s): MAHIEU, Stephanie Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper is based on ethnographical fieldwork conducted in The Hague, Croatia and Serbia. It addresses the distinction between command and individual responsibility on the one hand, and between individual responsibility ...
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    Title: Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?  Author(s): COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, Eoin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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? ...
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    Title: Rating Politics: The political economy of increased rating scrutiny over domestic politics and policy-making in developed economies since the economic and financial crisis  Author(s): BARTA, Zsofia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Rating agencies have played a prominent role in the sovereign debt crisis currently besetting Europe. Sovereign rating downgrades contributed to the fall of the first domino, Greece, and have since continued to fuel anxiety ...
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    Title: The Reasonable Adjustment of Basic Liberties. Liberalism and Judicial Balancing  Author(s): VALENTINI, Chiara Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper focuses on the “balancing” model of constitutional adjudication, conceived as a decisionmaking approach aimed to establish a “reasonable” equilibrium among conflicting norms of constitutional rank, so as to ...
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    Title: Recursive Contracts  Author(s): MARCET, Albert; MARIMON, Ramon Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We obtain a recursive formulation for a general class of contracting problems involving incentive constraints. These constraints make the corresponding maximization sup problems non-recursive. Our approach consists of ...
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    Title: Reflections on the Legal Role of the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) in EU Affairs After Lisbon  Author(s): FAHEY, Elaine Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The process of the first failed referendum in 2008 on the Treaty and the extensive political campaign to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon a second time around brought with it a tremendous period of reflection not merely for ...
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    Title: Regional Sustainable Development in the European Alps  Author(s): BALSIGER, Jörg Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Whereas transboundary regionalism has become a dominant trend in European and international economic and political integration, contemporary earth system governance continues to be characterized by functionally separated ...
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    Title: Religious Diversity and the Divergence of Secular Trajectories: Comparing secularization practices in Quebec and France  Author(s): KOUSSENS, David Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this working paper, I propose to analyze the treatment of the wearing of religious symbols in the public sphere in Quebec and France as political and juridical events that have crystallized, in different moments, certain ...
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    Title: Responding to Crimes against Humanity committed in Slovenia after the Second World War  Author(s): LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Law Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Abstract: This article explores responses to crimes against humanity committed on the Slovenian territory in the months following the end of the Second World War. As many as one hundred thirty thousands person are estimated to have ...
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    Title: Richelieu. A Role of Action and its Legacy  Author(s): D'ALBIS, Cécile Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Biography, a difficult and ambiguous genre, the most popular in all of literature, has played such an important role in the meaning of the individual self in western civilization. Its history has also followed the main ...
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    Title: The Role Of Constitutional Justice in Russia in the Process of Interpretation of European Values and the Promotion of European Constitutionalism  Author(s): MOULIAROVA, Ekaterina Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper conducts a critical analysis of selected cases of the Russian Constitutional Court and High Arbitration Court involving the interpretation of constitutional values underlying the Russian legal order, in this ...
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    Title: The Role of Curvature in the Transformation Frontier for Measuring Technology Shocks  Author(s): MENNUNI, Alessandro Date: 2010-10-28 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the usual version of the neoclassical growth model used to identify neutral (N-Shock) and investment shocks (I-Shock), a linear transformation frontier between consumption and investment goods is assumed. This paper ...
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    Title: The Role of Institutions in Cosmopolitan Justice  Author(s): MIKLOS, Andras Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of theories about the role of institutions in cosmopolitan justice. Some philosophers claim that principles of egalitarian justice apply to institutional schemes only, ...