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    Title: The Global Order as a Potential Case of Background Injustice  Author(s): RONZONI, Miriam Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Is the global order unjust? And if so, why? The paper argues that the central question to be asked within the debate on global distributive and economic justice is not whether the global order is characterized by the ...
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    Title: Globalization and the Politics of Subsidies  Author(s): AYDIN, Umut Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: State subsidies to attract investment have proliferated since the 1980s, yet we know little about the factors that influence governments’ subsidy policies. In this paper, I propose that in making subsidy policies, governments ...
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    Title: A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions  Author(s): GATEJEL, Luminita Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
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    Title: Good Luck or Good Policy? An expectational theory of macro volatility switches  Author(s): GABALLO, Gaetano Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In an otherwise unique-equilibrium model, agents are segmented into a few informational islands according to the signal they receive about others' expectations. Even if agents perfectly observe fundamentals, rational-exuberance ...
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    Title: The Greater and Lesser Nobility in Early Modern Europe: Poland-Lithuania and England and Wales in the Sixteenth Century  Author(s): GROMELSKI, Tomasz W. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper comparatively discusses the relationship between the greater and lesser nobilities in two contrasting polities - sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania and Tudor England. It argues that the szlachta’s and the gentry’s ...
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    Title: Habermas’s Notion of a Post-Secular Society. A Perspective from International Relations  Author(s): BARBATO, Mariano; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: How can secular Western IR theory deal with religion? Bringing in the debates on religion in the public sphere, the paper’s goal is to foster a deeper understanding of the nexus between religion and international relations. ...
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    Title: The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions  Author(s): GIANI, Leonardo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
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    Title: Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity  Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
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    Title: The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia  Author(s): LE NORMAND, Brigitte Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...
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    Title: How to Attain Minimax Risk with Applications to Distribution-Free Nonparametric Estimation and Testing  Author(s): SCHLAG, Karl H. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We show how to a derive exact distribution-free nonparametric results for minimax risk when underlying random variables have known finite bounds and means are the only parameters of interest. Transform the data with a ...
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    Title: Identifying outsiders across countries: similarities and differences in the patterns of dualisation  Author(s): HAEUSERMAN, Silja; SCHWANDER, Hanna Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Recwowe Working Paper
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    Title: The Impact of “Regional Blindness” on the Italian Regional State  Author(s): MARTINICO, Giuseppe Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: IDEIR Working paper Abstract: To what extent do Italian courts adapt the national legal instruments (principles, rules and legal techniques) regarding state structure to the requirements of EU law? This paper aims to give an answer to this question by ...
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    Title: Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a socialist Bucharest, reconstructing its past (1953-1968)  Author(s): GRAMA, Emanuela Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper analyzes the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of professional and political alliances in the post-war socialist bloc. I argue ...
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    Title: Improving the EU Immigration System: Reflections in the Light of the Return Directive  Author(s): OLMOS GIUPPONI, Maria Belen Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper focuses on the current state of EU immigration legislation and aims to provide a critical analysis and suggestions for improvement in the future. Over the past ten years, EU Summits have emphasized the need for ...
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    Title: In Search of Gender Differences in Access to Continuing Training: Is There a Gender Gap and If Yes, Why?  Author(s): DIECKHOFF, Martina; STEIBER, Nadia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: WZB Discussion Paper Abstract: Gender differences in access to continuing training are often argued to be a central cause of persisting gender inequalities in occupational attainment. Yet, existing empirical work has presented rather mixed evidence ...
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    Title: Incomplete Markets and the Evolution of the US. Consumer Wealth Distribution  Author(s): HINTERMAIER, Thomas; KOENIGER, Winfried Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We use a buffer-stock saving model to explain the evolution of the consumer net-worth distribution in the US between 1983 and 2004. We focus on net-worth up to the 90th percentile due to the well-known problem of matching ...
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    Title: Indirect Estimation of Elliptical Stable Distributions  Author(s): LOMBARDI, Marco J.; VEREDAS, David Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We present an indirect estimation approach for elliptical stable distributions which relies on the use of a multivariate Student-t distribution as auxiliary model. This distribution is also elliptical and we show that ...
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    Title: The informal communication network built by Domingo del Monte from Havana between 1824 and 1845  Author(s): AGUILERA-MANZANO, José María Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The aim of this research is to study the informal channels of communication built by Domingo del Monte, and the circle of authors around him, during the transition from the Ancien Régime to liberalism, in order to spread ...
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    Title: Information Disclosure and the Equivalence of Prospective Payment and Cost Reimbursement  Author(s): MA, Ching-to Albert; MAK, Henry Y. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: A health care provider chooses medical service quality and cost-reduction effort. Both choices are non-contractible. An insurer observes both quality and cost effort, and may credibly disclose them to consumers. In prospective ...
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    Title: Innocent Victims of Red KZs? West German Representations of Soviet Internment 1945-55  Author(s): BEATTIE, Andrew Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on Soviet internment camps established in eastern Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Since 1990 there has been heated debate about who was in the camps and ...