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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 ...
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    Title: Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence  Author(s): CASAS, Agustin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...
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    Title: Peer Effects in Free School Meals: Information or stigma?  Author(s): JAMES, Jonathan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates peer effects in the take up of a welfare programme, free school meals, using the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) which collects data on every child attending school in England. To explore ...
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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: Acceptance and Social Rules  Author(s): PERRY, Adam Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
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    Title: Countering Authoritarian States through Public Campaigns: A post-Soviet perspective  Author(s): VARGA, Mihai Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper contributes to growing research about the emergence of the rule of law, or horizontal accountability, still the key difference between Western institutionalized democracies and the new democracies in both Latin ...
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    Title: The Structure of the Lattices of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria of Binary Games of Strategic Complements  Author(s): RODRIGUEZ BARRAQUER, Tomas Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: It has long been established in the literature that the set of pure strategy Nash equilibria of any binary game of strategic complements among a set N of players can be seen as a lattice on the set of all subsets of N under ...
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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: Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed marriage and flexibility of Shari'a in interwar Yugoslavia  Author(s): BURIC, Fedja Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper discusses the cases of pragmatic conversions to, and out of, Islam in interwar Yugoslavia. It analyzes these cases in the context of Sharia law, which, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom of ...
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    Title: Claiming Social Security Benefits Early to Retire Later  Author(s): FAWAZ, Yarine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines Social Security benefit claiming behavior in the US using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to implement a duration model. It focuses essentially on the rushing/delaying behavior of the unemployed ...
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    Title: Integration Requirements in EU Migration Law  Author(s): DE VRIES, Karin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In recent years, integration requirements have come to play a role in EU immigration law. Several directives – the Family Reunification Directive (2003/86), the Long-Term Residents Directive (2003/109) and the Blue Card ...
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    Title: The Political Effects of Becoming a Citizen: Solution or selection?  Author(s): STREET, Alex Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, ...
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    Title: Turnout and Policy: The role of candidates  Author(s): VALASEK, Justin Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Turnout is an important determinant of which candidate wins an election. Since candidates know this, it follows that they will consider turnout when choosing their policy platforms. In this paper I formally examine the ...
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    Title: Democratic Diffusion under the Magnifying Glass: A micro perspective on the change of attitudes toward democratic governance through transnational linkages in authoritarian contexts  Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Students of democratic diffusion argue that strong ties to democracies foster political transformation in non-democratic regimes. They theoretically specify a long causal chain linking the micro-phenomenon of the democratic ...
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    Title: With Strings Attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labour market outcomes  Author(s): GARCIA-MORAN, Eva; KUEHN, Zoe Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to any other form of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that ...
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    Title: Contractual Networks and the Access of Small and Medium Enterprises to Global Value Chains  Author(s): JOPPERT SWENSSON, Luana F. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the last three decades, the organisation of production has undergone major transformations, characterised by the movement from vertical integration towards de-verticalisation, with the increasing of outsourcing and ...
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    Title: Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 1956-1969  Author(s): BINI, Elisabetta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the ways in which U.S. oil companies transformed Libya’s economy and society between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 1969, as the country became one of the main oil ...
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    Title: The Covert War against Iran’s Nuclear Program: An effective counterproliferation strategy?  Author(s): MAHER, Richard Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: For nearly a decade the United States and some of its key allies have sought to disrupt, delay, and potentially reverse Iran’s nuclear program through diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and veiled threats of military ...
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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 ...
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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 ...