Title:Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?
Author(s):FAINI, Riccardo; STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, ClaudiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IZA Discussion PapersAbstract:The novelties of the paper are two. First the paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. ...
Title:An Argument for Leverage-Based Business Responsibility for Human Rights
Author(s):WOOD, StepanDate:2011-09-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Recent debates about “spheres of influence” in the context of the corporate responsibility to respect
human rights raised the question of whether companies’ human rights responsibilities arise, in part,
from their ...
Title:Asset Commonality, Debt Maturity and Systemic Risk
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; BABUS, Ana; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2010-11-20Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:We develop a model where financial institutions swap projects in order to diversify their individual risk. This can lead to two dfferent asset structures. In a clustered structure groups of financial institutions hold ...
Title:The Atlantic Alliance after Iraq
Author(s):ANDREWS, David M.Date:2004Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:Attempting the Impossible? The Prospects and Limits of Mobility Partnerships and Circular Migration
Author(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:ELIAMEP ThesisAbstract:In ELIAMEP Thesis 1/2009 Anna Triandafyllidou, Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that mobility partnerships and circular migration as proposed by the Commission in its respective Communication are not likely to ...
Title:Back to the ‘Future of Europe’: A Political Sociology of EU Constitutional Saga
Author(s):COHEN, Antonin; VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Looking back at eight years of controversies over Europe’s future, this paper develops a new research agenda towards a political sociology of EU constitutional politics. As a preliminary step, we make the case for reflexivity, ...
Title:Bank Market Structure, Systemic Risk, and Interbank Market Breakdowns
Author(s):LUCCHETTA, MarcellaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper explores theoretically the implications of bank market structure and banking system risks
concentration for the functioning of interbank markets. It employs a simple model where banks are
exposed to both credit ...
Title:The Banking and Distribution Sectors in a Small Open Economy DSGE Model
Author(s):DEÁK, Szabolcs; FONTAGNE, Lionel; MAFFEZZOLI, Marco; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The recent crisis has emphasized the role of financial - macroeconomic interactions, and international trade in goods and services, in the transmission of the shocks. Both phenomena, closely related to the higher degree ...
Title:The (Beginning of the) End of the Political Unity of the West? Four Scenarios of North Atlantic Futures
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Will future historians write about the last half-decade of the twentieth and the first half-decade of the twenty-first century as the beginning of the end of political unity of the West? If it will not be a more or less ...