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    Title: The Elusive Impact of Investing Abroad for Japanese Parent Firms: Can an Analysis of the Motives for FDI help?  Author(s): HERING, Laura; INNUI, Tomohiko; PONCET, Sandra Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We investigate whether previous findings of only limited effects of investing abroad on the performance of firms can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the motive for foreign direct ...
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    Title: Empathy, Situations, and an Enlarged Mentality: Iterations between Jaspers and Arendt  Author(s): GATTA, Giunia Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper has the broad goal of inquiring into the role of empathy in contemporary interpretations of judgment as enlarged mentality. Specifically, it puts Hannah Arendt in dialogue with Karl Jaspers, her mentor and friend, ...
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    Title: An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy  Author(s): BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, Dalibor Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
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    Title: The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state  Author(s): MORATTI, Sofia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
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    Title: Escaping Low-Wage Jobs: Wealth, Low Wages, and the Black-White Entrapment Gap  Author(s): MORILLAS, Juan Rafael Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze individuals’ opportunities to escape low-wage jobs. More specifically, relying on an assets or wealth (as a distinct variable from income) theoretical framework, I provide an explanation ...
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    Title: Estimating Dynamic Contracts: Risk Sharing in Village Economies  Author(s): LACZÓ, Sarolta Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies the role of preference and income risk heterogeneity when risk sharing is partial due to limited commitment. I estimate the dynamic contract determining self-enforcing insurance transfers in a structural ...
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    Title: The European Competition Network: Structure, Management and Initial Experiences of Policy Enforcement  Author(s): CENGIZ, Firat Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The European Competition Network came into life in 2004 as an atypical network with a relatively hierarchical and highly regulated structure. As a result, predictions regarding the future functioning of this network were ...
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    Title: The European Dilemma of Social-Democratic Parties. A Study of Debates at National Party Conferences of the PS, SPD and Labour Party  Author(s): GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: While the extant literature of EU politicization has revolved around parties anchored at the margins of the political spectrum, this working paper considers the political and electoral implications of European integration ...
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    Title: European Integration Without EU Membership: Models, Experiences, Perspectives  Author(s): MAIANI, Francesco; PETROV, Roman; MOULIAROVA, Ekaterina Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: At the beginning of the 1990s, the concept of “European integration” could still be said to be fairly unambiguous. Nowadays, it has become plural and complex almost to the point of unintelligibility. This is due, of course, ...
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    Title: The Europeanization of Political Parties: Influencing the Regulations on Political Finance  Author(s): WALECKI, Marcin Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Europe does matter for political parties because of the impact of its rules, directives and norms into the domestic sphere. Drawing on new evidence, this paper sheds light on largely hidden aspects of the Europeanization ...
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    Title: Evolutionary View of Human Nature and the Goals of Law  Author(s): ZALUSKI, Wojciech Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper an attempt is made to show that evolutionary theory may be used to define the goals of law. While addressing the problem of defining the goals of law, one can use evolutionary theory in two radically different ...
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    Title: Explaining Trends and Patterns of Immigrants’ Partner Choice in Britain  Author(s): MUTTARAK, Raya Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Based on the 1988–2006 General Household Survey (N=121,964), this paper investigates trends and patterns of partnership formation of immigrants in Britain and explains underlying factors influencing partner choice. The ...
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    Title: Exporter Dynamics and Productivity Growth  Author(s): BERMAN, Nicolas; REBEYROL, Vincent Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Using a large firm-level database containing information on export flows of French firms by destination, over the period 1995-2005, we study the impact of exporter dynamics on their future productivity growth. Our empirical ...
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    Title: The External Dimension of the Acquis Communautaire  Author(s): PETROV, Roman Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this article is to study the concept of the acquis communautaire in the domain of EU external relations. It is argued that the acquis communautaire varies according to the specific aims of its internal and ...
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    Title: A Farewell to Constitutional Authorship? A Critique of the Presentist Turn in the Legitimacy of Constitutional Democracy  Author(s): KUO, Ming-Sung Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: “We the People” and the corresponding concept of constitutional authorship have gripped our imagination of the legitimacy of constitutional democracy since the American and French Revolutions. In contrast to this Big ...
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    Title: Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History  Author(s): MARCUS, Nathan Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the ...
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    Title: Financial Crises and International Trade: The Long Way to Recovery  Author(s): BERMAN, Nicolas Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Standard theoretical models would predict that a currency depreciation generates an increase in net exports. However, recent emerging market crises, accompanied by sharp exchange rate devaluation, have often been followed ...
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    Title: Financial Crisis Resolution  Author(s): SCHROTH, Josef Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crises. A pecuniary ...
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    Title: Financial Factors and the Margins of Trade: Evidence from cross-country firm-level data  Author(s): BERMAN, Nicolas; HÉRICOURT, Jérôme Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Working Paper University Paris 1
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    Title: Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government  Author(s): SIMON, Jenny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: How does the presence of financial markets shape the government's ability to implement social redistribution? Individuals do not typically constrain consumption to equal their net-of-tax income every period. Instead, access ...