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    Title: Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money  Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; NICOLINI, Juan Pablo; TELES, Pedro Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancingmechanims in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, ...
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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: 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: On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
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    Title: "Those Who Give Are Not All Generous": Tips and bribes at the sixteenth-century papal court  Author(s): FLETCHER, Catherine Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Ambassadors in early modern Europe were frequent disbursers of tips, rewards and bribes, and usually expected something in return for their liberality. This paper considers the conventions, both written and unwritten, that ...
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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: State and Civil Society as defined by the Muslim Brothers in Europe  Author(s): LARISE, Dunja Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the last ten years political Islam, as well as its aims and strategies, has developed into one of the most discussed political issues in Europe. Nevertheless scant attention has been paid to the concrete theoretical ...
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    Title: Addressing Liability of Automated Systems in Air Traffic Management  Author(s): CONTISSA, Giuseppe Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the current operational scenario of Air Traffic Management (ATM), liability is mainly allocated to the operators who are responsible for air traffic control and air navigation. However, this scenario will rapidly change: ...
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    Title: Legal Conflicts and Subnational Constitutionalism  Author(s): DELLEDONNE, Giacomo; MARTINICO, Giuseppe Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper analyses the increasing use of the concept of subnational identity, understood as a peculiar (to some extent) category that is opposed to the State or federal identity. References to it are included in the ...
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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: State Discretion as a Paradox of EU Evolution  Author(s): FOROWICZ, Magdalena Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The notion of State discretion is a fundamental concept for the determination of powers and the effective functioning of regional and international legal systems. It is an inherently controversial notion in a system such ...
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    Title: Social Class, Employment Contracts and Economic Security in the Russian Labour Market  Author(s): BESSUDNOV, Alexey Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper I explore occupational class differences in employment contracts, fringe benefits and unemployment risks in Russia. Using panel data, I provide both a descriptive account of class differentials in these labour ...
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    Title: States and Migration Industries in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea  Author(s): SURAK, Kristin Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Among the crescendo of calls for “systemic” approaches to the study of international migration, a small body of literature has emerged around what might be termed the migration industry, or the matrix of border-spanning ...
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    Title: DGSE Model Evaluation and Hybrid Models: A Comparison  Author(s): PACCAGNINI, Alessia Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper discusses the estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models using hybrid models. These econometric tools provide the combination of an atheoretical statistical representation and the theoretical ...
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    Title: Sunspots and Multiplicity  Author(s): HOELLE, Matthew Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper proves that a multiplicity of certainty equilibria is not necessary for the existence of sunspot effects in two-period general equilibrium models with incomplete markets. Sunspot effects are present, by definition, ...
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    Title: Unemployment Insurance and Home Production  Author(s): TASKIN, Temel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...
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    Title: Lexicographic Voting  Author(s): KLINGELHÖFER, Jan Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper reconsiders the division of the literature on electoral competition into models with forwardlooking voters and those with backward-looking voters by combining ideas from both strands of the literature. As long ...
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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: Spinster, Prostitute or Pioneer? Images of Refugee Women in Post-Partition Calcutta  Author(s): SEN, Uditi Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper explores the various images or stereotypes regarding Bengali middle-class refugee women that circulated in post-partition West Bengal. It identifies four main discursive images or constructions of refugee women: ...
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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 ...