Title:Omitted Encounters: The early political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Author(s):KEEDUS, LiisiDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is my contention that a historically and thus philosophically accurate understanding of Arendt’s and Strauss’s projects cannot be gained without knowledge of the debates and controversies that shaped their early thought. ...
Title:On asymmetric information and health
Author(s):KARLSSON, MartinDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:no abstract available
Title:On Finland's Economic Growth and Convergence with Sweden and the EU15 in the 20th Century
Author(s):KOKKINEN, ArtoDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Finland is one of the few examples of poor countries’ absolute GDP per capita convergence in the 20th century: One hundred years ago it was a poor agrarian country with GDP per capita less than half of that of the United ...
Title:On international business cycles
Author(s):UBIDE, Angel J.Date:1995Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:On Sanctions and Signals: How formal and informal mechanisms produce compliance
Author(s):VAN DER WEELE, JoelDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why people comply with rules, why they contribute to public goods and why they behave prosocially in general is a fundamental question of social science. In the tradition of Gary Becker and the chicago school, economists ...
Title:On the macroeconomics of firm entry and exit
Author(s):GABLER, AlainDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis straddles two seemingly quite distinct fields within macroeconomics, namely endogenous growth and business cycle theory. The unifying element of the thesis is the fundamental role played by firm entry and exit ...
Title:On the Measurement of Welfare, Happiness and Inequality
Author(s):RYNKO, MajaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses welfare measurement issues, with an emphasis on the measurement of happiness and inequality. It contributes to the economic literature in both methodological and empirical terms, with the empirical ...