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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, ...
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    Title: Sanction as a Viable Tool for Promoting Cooperation: A Cognitive and Simulation Model  Author(s): ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia; VILLATORO, Daniel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Punishment plays a crucial role in achieving and maintaining norm compliance. Several works have shown that cooperation greatly increases when punishment opportunities are allowed. However, these studies have mainly looked ...
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    Title: Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments  Author(s): GAZZINI, Claudia Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...
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    Title: Satisfaction with Democracy in Post-Communist Multi-Ethnic Countries. The Effect of Political Institutions  Author(s): RUIZ-RUFINO, Rubén Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Why are some ethnic minorities more satisfied with democracy than others in postcommunist countries? This paper explores this question by looking at the impact of political institutions on satisfaction with democracy. Using ...
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    Title: Self-fulfilling Beliefs and Bounded Bubbles in the U.S. Housing Market  Author(s): KASHIWAGI, Masanori Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper provides an equilibrium framework to organize the following empirical observations on the U.S. housing market from 1975 to 2007: (i) housing tenure and vacancies were approximately constant, (ii) rents were ...
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    Title: Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China  Author(s): HOSNE, Ana Carolina Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...
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    Title: The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia  Author(s): VULETIC, Dean Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...
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    Title: Size Matters: Why not for contemporary empirical democratic theory?  Author(s): KLINE, Reuben Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The question of how the size of a polity and the functioning of its democracy is curiously understudied, especially in a cross-national, empirical fashion. After introducing the issue, this survey offers an overview of the ...
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    Title: Skills and Recruitment in Flexible Work Settings  Author(s): APITZSCH, Birgit Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Over recent decades, we have witnessed profound changes in labour markets with an increase in flexible forms of work and employment, driven by organizational restructuring and institutional change at the macro- and at the ...