Title:Money in the Middle East and North Africa: Monetary Policy Frameworks and Strategies
Author(s):COBHAM, David; DIBEH, GhassanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Monetary policy in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries remains an understudied area; this book fills an important gap by examining monetary policy frameworks and monetary policy strategies in the region. ...
Title:Money, Financial Stability and Efficiency
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2011-01-16Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in
practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. We consider a standard
banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate ...
Title:Money, Financial Stability and Efficiency
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. We consider a standard banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate ...
Title:Montenegro’s Minorities in the Tangles of Citizenship, Participation, and Access to Rights
Author(s):DZANKIC, JelenaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the relationship between citizenship, participation, cultural and socio-economic rights of minorities in Montenegro by focusing on the divergence between policies and their implementation. Taking an ...
Title:Moral Hazard in Hierarchies and Soft Information
Author(s):ANGELUCCI, Charles; RUSSO, AntonioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We investigate the scope for supervisory activities in organizations in which information is non-verifiable (i.e. soft) and opportunism severe. A principal-supervisor agent hierarchy is considered. Side-contracts between ...
Title:The Moroccan Party of Justice and Development in Local Government: Do Islamists Govern Differently?
Author(s):PELLICER, Miquel; WEGNER, EvaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates local government practices during the first tenure of office of the Islamist
Moroccan Party of Justice and Development (PJD). We consider three cases of PJD governance, the
towns of Ksar al-Kebir, ...
Title:Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity
Author(s):RODRÍGUEZ-POSE, Andrés; CRESCENZI, RiccardoDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Thomas Friedman (2005, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) argues that the expansion of trade, the internationalization of firms, the galloping process of ...
Title:Much Ado about Pluto? The ‘Unity of the Legal Order of the European Union’ Revisited
Author(s):HERRMANN, Christoph W.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The European Union is commonly described as a temple-like construction resting upon three pillars. Whereas the first pillar, Community law, constitutes a “new legal order” of supranational character, the second and third ...
Title:Multi-level Governance and Security: The Security Sector Reform Process in the Central African Republic
Author(s):BAGAYOKO-PENONE, NiagaléDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Analysing how the SSR process in CAR has been defined and then implemented, this article puts emphasis on the international interactions between institutional actors who may be geographically/territorially situated at ...
Title:Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach
Author(s):MODOOD, Tariq; TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Anna; ZAPATA-BARRERO, RicardDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This informative collection investigates the European dimension of multiculturalism and immigration. It argues that political theory discourse of multiculturalism and resulting EU policies assume an interpretation of ...