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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, ...
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    Title: The Role of Intellectual Property in Joint Innovation and Development  Author(s): SVETIEV, Yane Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of intellectual property (IP) in structuring and governing innovative ventures between independent firms. The issue is particularly important given the tendency towards vertical disintegration ...
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    Title: The Role of log Transformation in Forecasting Economic Variables  Author(s): LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; XU, Fang Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: For forecasting and economic analysis many variables are used in logarithms (logs). In time series analysis this transformation is often considered to stabilize the variance of a series. We investigate under which ...
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    Title: The “Rougemarine Dilemma”: how much Trust does a State Deserve when it Subsidises Cultural Goods and Services?  Author(s): GERMANN, Christophe Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper focuses on the way welfare states distribute subsidies to cultural industries. It takes the example of the film industry and analyses jurisprudence which addresses socalled “selective state aid” schemes based ...
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    Title: Rule Application in EU and US Conciliation Committees  Author(s): RASMUSSEN, Anne Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Important rules regulating conciliation committees in the EU and the U.S. look similar but are applied very differently in practice. This article examines why rule application is different in the two systems. In accordance ...
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    Title: Rural Communities and the Reformation: Social discipline and the process of confessionalization in Montbéliard, 1524-1660  Author(s): DERMINEUR, Elise Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the sixteenth century, the dukes of Württemberg, also sovereigns of Montbéliard, enforced Lutheranism as the new faith in the city and its surrounding dependent villages. The dukes sought to convert the French-speaking ...
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    Title: Sample Kurtosis, GARCH-t and the Degrees of Freedom Issue  Author(s): HERACLEOUS, Maria S. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Econometric modeling based on the Student's t distribution introduces an additional parameter -- the degree of freedom. In this paper we use a simulation study to investigate the ability of (i) the GARCH-t model (Bollerslev, ...