Title:Unique Authoritarianism: Shifting Fortunes and the Malleability of the Salih Regime in Yemen, 1990-Present
Author(s):BLUMI, IsaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Ever since the political elite of the two Yemeni states agreed to unify in 1989, the dynamics of the newly created country's sociopolitical development has been co-opted by a diverse group of local actors. In the process ...
Title:The use of economics in WTO Appellate Body decisions
Author(s):PRUSA, Thomas J.Date:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:While WTO disputes involve legal rights and obligations, economics often can help the Appellate Body (AB) make sense of the dispute and the implications of ambiguous language in the Agreements. This paper reviews three ...
Title:Using Rights to Re-invent Secularism in France and Turkey
Author(s):BARRAS, AmélieDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:For the last two decades the human rights' discourse has been increasingly used across the world - one could argue that there has even been a globalization of human rights. This discourse has also, been intrinsically linked ...
Title:The value of social networks in financial markets
Author(s):RANCAN, MichelaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Social contacts influence decisions and economic outputs in a variety of contexts. Does social network matter also in financial markets? In this paper I investigate the effect of social networks on mutual funds performance ...
Title:Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MARTIN, Philippe; PESENTI, PaoloDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Most analyses of the macroeconomic adjustment required to correct global imbalances ignore net exports of new varieties of goods and services and do not account for firms'net entry in the product market. In this paper we ...
Title:Varieties of Cooperation: Government Networks in International Security
Author(s):EILSTRUP-SANGIOVANNI, MetteDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:A growing literature touts the prominence of international cooperation among substate officials
through so-called transgovernmental networks (TGNs). These networks are allegedly faster, cheaper
and more flexible than ...
Title:The Very British Worldview of Chris Patten, External Relations Commissioner 1999-2004
Author(s):MCCOURT, DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines the worldview of Chris Patten, EU Commissioner for External Relations between September 1999 and 2004. It forms part of a collective project designed to offer insights into the ‘operational codes’ EU ...