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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 ...
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    Title: Fixing the Quorum: Representation versus Abstention  Author(s): ZWART, Sanne Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The majority of the participating voters in referenda does not necessarily re°ect the majority of the whole population since voters can ab- stain. This paper shows that a quorum exists for which the outcome of the referendum ...
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    Title: Focusing the Mind? How the European Union Affects Issue Coverage in National Elections  Author(s): NANOU, Kyriaki Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: It is commonplace to assume that what determines the coverage of issues in parties’ political agendas are domestic factors such as their own issue priorities and those of their political rivals, the attention devoted by ...
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    Title: "For One More Year with You": Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe  Author(s): BRUNELLO, Giorgio; FORT, Margherita; WEBER, Guglielmo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We ...
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    Title: For One More Year with You: Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe  Author(s): FORT, Margherita; BRUNELLO, Giorgio; WEBER, Guglielmo Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: 3102 Abstract: Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We ...
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    Title: Forecasting Annual Inflation with Seasonal Monthly Data: Using Levels versus Logs of the Underlying Price Index  Author(s): LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; XU, Fang Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates whether using natural logarithms (logs) of price indices for forecasting inflation rates is preferable to employing the original series. Univariate forecasts for annual inflation rates for a number ...
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    Title: Fractional Integration and Cointegration Testing Using the Sample Mean  Author(s): DEMETRESCU, Matei Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The convergence rate of the sample mean of fractionally integrated processes is exploited to build test statistics for the fractional integration parameter d of univariate series, as well as for the rank of fractional ...
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    Title: Free Trade Agreements and WTO Law: A Perspective on the Trade in Services  Author(s): WANG, Heng Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: China’s free trade agreements in services are developing at a fast pace. This paper examines the major differences between these agreements and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and their relationship with ...
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    Title: French in the eyes of others : cultural citizenship, marginalization, and France’s middle-class North African second-generation  Author(s): BEAMAN, Jean Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, based on 45 interviews with adult children of North African immigrants in the Paris metropolitan area, I discuss those individuals who, despite their educational and professional successes, remain excluded ...
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    Title: From an Old Foe to a New Friend? Analyzing the Shift in France’s Security Policy Towards Germany after WWII from a Pragmatist Perspective  Author(s): DELORI, Mathias Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: From 1945 to 1949, France implemented a security policy towards Germany based on annexing border territories, dismantling German industry and impeding the reconstitution of German political institutions. On 9 May 1950, ...
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    Title: Funeral Oratory at the Medici Court: the Representation of the First Grand Dukes  Author(s): MENCHINI, Carmen Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Over 420 works on the Grand Dukes of the Medici family were written in the two centuries during which they ruled Florence and later all of Tuscany (1532-1737). Funeral orations and biographies can be considered the main ...
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    Title: General Husayn and his Legacy: Slavery, Manumission and Nationality in Imperial Contexts  Author(s): OUALDI, M’hamed Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP;2010/34 Abstract: In 1887, six years after the colonization of Tunisia by France, General Husayn, a former slave serving the Tunisian state died in Florence. From that moment, a legal conflict over his legacy ensued involving the Tunisian, ...
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    Title: German and British Trade Unions: Problems and opportunities after enlargement  Author(s): ZAHN, Rebecca Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines and compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the recent European enlargements in 2004 and 2007, enlargements that are unprecedented in the history of the European ...
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    Title: A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850  Author(s): GEKAS, Athanasios Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper arises from the project on "Cotton textiles as a global industry, 1200-1800", carried out at the LSE and as part of the Global Economic History Network. The paper revisits and situates the historiography of ...
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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 ...