Title:Interest Groups, Government Spending and Italian Industrial Growth (1876-1913)
Author(s):FIORINO, Nadia; RICCIUTI, RobertoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the last two decades of the XIX century the Italian model of economic growth shifted from agricultural to industrial. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued ...
Title:The Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Education: A Comparison of Japan and France
Author(s):LEFRANC, Arnaud; OJIMA, Fumiaki; YOSHIDA, TakashiDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper compares the extent of intergenerational earnings and educational correlation in Japan and France. It uses very similar repeated surveys that provide information on educational attainment and family background, ...
Title:International Administration between the Wars: A Reappraisal
Author(s):WEISBRODE, KennethDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the chronology of the interwar decline of European influence and power, arguing that its origins outside Europe are to be found as much in the paradoxical status of inter- national administration of ...
Title:International Cooperation and Environmental Security: The Worldview of Joseph Borg
Author(s):COUTTO, TatianaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article focuses on the worldview of Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Joseph Borg, former Maltese diplomat and legal practitioner whose career includes a brief incursion into academia and the holding of ...
Title:The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPRAbstract:This paper investigates the international dimension of productivity and demand shocks to US manufacturing. Identifying shocks with sign restrictions based on standard theory predictions we find that productivity gains in ...
Title:International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; PESENTI, PaoloDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides a baseline general equilibrium model of optimal monetary policy among interdependent economies with monopolistic firms and nominal rigidities. An inward-looking policy of domestic price stabilization ...
Title:International Elections Experts, Monitors, and Representations in the Arab World
Author(s):CARAPICO, SheilaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Elections are sites of festivity, celebrity, and sometimes dramatic suspense, unique occasions for the simultaneous nationwide engagement of candidates, campaign volunteers, poll-workers, voters, and even abstainers and ...
Title:International Financial Integration of South-Mediterranean Economies: A bird's-eye view
Author(s):PEETERS, Marga; SABRI, Nidal R.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Should South-Mediterranean economies continue their financial integration in the world economy, considering their current stance and in view of the experiences of developed economies with the global financial crisis? The ...