Title:Heterogeneous Individuals in the International Economy
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Does financial globalisation increase inequality? Should households with little financial wealth still hold foreign assets? Are consumption patterns of low income earners more dispersed than those of the rich? Do aggregate ...
Title:Heterogeneous switching costs and vertical mergers : cases for state intervention?
Author(s):WIENRICH, UlrikeDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last months economic discussions have been as intense as rarely before, questioning the foundations of economic theory as well as practice. The financial and economic crisis has had a strong impact on economic ...
Title:HIV, mortality and the self
Author(s):RINKEN, SebastianDate:1996Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:The Holocaust in German and Polish cinema after 1989 and European processes of remembrance
Author(s):PAKIER, MalgorzataDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation examines the role of German and Polish feature films in the Europeanization of the construction of the Holocaust memory. The role of the global media representations in providing foundations for a ...
Title:How Caste Works: Forging new identities in a Punjabi ex-untouchable community in Catalonia, Spain
Author(s):LUM, KathrynDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is an ethnographic study of an ex-untouchable group from the Punjab region of India known as the Ravidassias. Its aim is twofold: on the one hand to elucidate the mechanisms of caste in social life and in ...
Title:How International Actors Interact: Explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007
Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...
Title:How voters process information: an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences
Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:L'aumento dell'astensionismo elettorale, fenomeno oggi attuale in Italia così come in molti altri paesi occidentali, e più in generale lo scarso interesse dei cittadini verso la politica generano dubbi e perplessità ...
Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the political and legal dimensions of human rights policies enacted by cities in order to respond to one main research question: how are these policies enacted and what is their outcome? Drawing ...
Title:Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: For a multi-level governance approach
Author(s):O'BRIEN, ClaireDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues for adoption of a multi-level governance perspective with regard to the problematic of the regulation the human rights impacts of transnational business, on three main grounds. First, that the multi-level ...
Title:Human Rights as the Business of Business: The application of human rights standards to the oil industry
Author(s):HERNANDEZ URIZ, GenovevaDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the challenges posed by greater public demands placed upon transnational corporations to improve their human rights records. Its focus is placed on the oil industry because it epitomises the archetypical ...