Title:The duty to deal in the biopharmaceutical industry : a follow-on innovation perspective
Author(s):HARACOGLOU, IrinaDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Using the example of research tools in biopharmaceutical research and innovation, this book examines the complexities of the relationship two fundamental areas of law and policy - intellectual property rights and competition ...
Title:Dynamic factor models in estimation and forecasting
Author(s):BYSTROV, VictorDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses the issue of the relative performance of dynamic factor models in finite samples in the presence of structural breaks. It extends an existing literature by considering new data sets and evaluating ...
Title:Dynamic Factor Models in Macro-finance
Author(s):SCHERRER, DavidDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Macroeconomic concepts such as inflation and real economic activity are not directly observed. Researchers often use factor models in order to measure these unobserved concepts. The underlying view is that a small number ...
Title:E Pluribus Europa? Assessing the Viability of the EU
Author(s):GLENCROSS, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:As a novel and complex polity, also subject to endless proposals for institutional reform, the viability of the EU is an open but under-theorized question. This thesis conceptualizes EU viability from an internal perspective, ...
Title:Eating the Last Seed: Famine, empire, survival and order in Ottoman Anatolia in the late 19th century
Author(s):ERTEM, ÖzgeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation explores the social and cultural history of two Anatolian famines in the late-Ottoman Empire, situating them in the economic and political environment of the 1870s. It focuses on the central Anatolian ...