Title:Banking across Borders: Evidence and implications
Author(s):NIEPMANN, FriederikeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis sheds light on the motives, the nature and the implications of banking across borders. In Chapter 1, co-authored with Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, I examine the challenges that increased financial integration presents ...
Title:Bayesian Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Author(s):MARKUN, MichalDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation investigates various aspects of Bayesian inference in time series econometrics. It consists of one expository chapter and two research papers. The first chapter presents on an easy example of a production ...
Title:Becoming a subject : political prisoners in Greece in the Civil War, 1945-1950
Author(s):VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Voglis examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what ...
Title:Being Moral: Moral competence and the limits of reasonable doubt
Author(s):HERMANN, JuliaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I argue that we should conceive of morality as a set of overlapping practices and of moral knowledge first and foremost as the competence to participate in these practices. On the basis of a Wittgensteinian ...
Title:Beneath Moral Economy: Informal assistance in early 20th century Finland
Author(s):SAARITSA, SakariDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study concerns informal assistance between households as a form of social security in early 20th century Finland. Its sources consist of oral histories, tax, demographic and welfare records and household budgets. ...