Title:A Dynamic View on Normative Behavior: Agent-based models of law
Author(s):MAYOR, EunateDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:When dealing with norm compliance, we can talk about three different layers. First, law's addressees consider their potential legal liability in case they don't abide the norm. Monetary sanctions, incentives and other ...
Title:Abilities, Attitudes, Behaviors and their Effects on Economic Outcomes
Author(s):WEISS, ChristophDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis takes latent variables seriously. It consists of three chapters discussing the determinants of economic success for a British cohort. The evidence presented shows that abilities during childhood and adolescence ...
Title:Abuse of Union Law and Regulation of the Internal Market
Author(s):SAYDÉ, AlexandreDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Abuses of Union law can be defined as undesirable choices of law made by Union citizens. The treatment of choices of law by Union citizens has proved inconsistent under Union law, being alternatively endorsed (Centros) or ...
Title:Accounting for nationalist violence in affluent countries
Author(s):DE LA CALLE ROBLES, LuisDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis seeks to explain the determinants of resilient nationalist violence in Western Europe since World War II. Despite being one of the most affluent regions in the world, several episodes of nationalist violence ...
Title:Adapting the welfare state : privatisation in health care in Denmark, England and Sweden
Author(s):OLESEN, Jeppe DørupDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with the following question: In the past decades some of the countries most dedicated to the universal public welfare state have privatised many of their welfare service provisions. Why is this so? ...