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 ...
Title:Econometric Models for Mixed-Frequency Data
Author(s):FORONI, ClaudiaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses different issues related to the use of mixed-frequency data. In the first chapter, I review, discuss and compare the main approaches proposed so far in the literature to deal with mixed-frequency data, ...
Title:An Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Pharmaceutical Markets
Author(s):SAURÍ, LluísDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Regulation in pharmaceutical markets is pervasive in most countries, especially in Europe. The nature of existing regulations is diverse, as they serve a number of purposes: guaranteeing safety, efficacy and security of ...
Title:Economic Disadvantage in Central and Eastern Europe: What difference does social assistance make?
Author(s):AVRAM, SilviaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present study analyses the impact of social assistance programs on poverty, broadly construed as economic disadvantage, in eight Central and East European countries during the mid-2000s. It does that by examining ...
Title:Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Author(s):KITZMUELLER, MarkusDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and how can we explain the phenomenon from an economic perspective? Is there a business case for CSR and was Milton Friedman right when writing in the New York Times in 1970 ...
Title:The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Author(s):LANCEE, BramDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at analyzing to what extent different forms of social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany to make headway on the labour market. Two forms of social capital are identified. Bonding ...