Title:Soft Law and the Rule of Law in the European Union: Revision or Redundancy?
Author(s):DAWSON, MarkDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The increasing use in the EU of soft law norms has created an extensive debate over the centrality of law as the principle instrument of European integration. Under a certain understanding of legality – one that sees the ...
Title:Some Business Cycle Consequences of Trade Agreements: Th e Case of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Author(s):BEJAN, MariaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates the effects of signing a trade agreement on the correlations of the business
cycle fluctuations of consumption, investment and output between two countries. We construct an
international business ...
Title:Some Policy and Research Questions Related to Energy Storage
Author(s):SIOSHANSI, RamteenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper provides a survey of the history and future of storage development in the US and policy
and analytical questions relating to storage. The paper discusses the history of storage development in
the US, and some ...
Title:Sovereignty without Borders: On Individual Rights, the Delegation to Rule, and Globalization
Author(s):SGARD, Jérôme; BROUSSEAU, Eric; SCHEMEIL, YvesDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Just as medieval municipal republics surrendered to national sovereigns in the past, incumbent states
may be replaced in the future by an alternate, global public order. Citizens and merchants would
obtain more equal ...
Title:Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009-09-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:In countries such as Germany, the legal system ensures that firms are stakeholder oriented. In others, like Japan, social norms achieve a similar effect. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented ...
Title:Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In countries such as Germany, the legal system is such that firms are necessarily stakeholder oriented. In others like Japan social convention achieves a similar effect. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of ...
Title:State Fragility, the Peacebuilder’s Contract, and the Search for the Least Bad State
Author(s):BARNETT, MichaelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper develops two claims that follow from two general conclusions from recent re-search on
peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. The first is that international peacebuilders are fairly
good at ending ...
Title:A State of Trust
Author(s):LEVI, MargaretDate:1996Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:“State-Building for Peace” – A New Paradigm for International Engagement in Post-Conflict Fragile States?
Author(s):ROCHA MENOCAL, AlinaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is intended to analyse two leading approaches that have guided international efforts to
promote peace and development in conflict-afflicted fragile states since the 1990s, namely peacebuilding
and state-building. ...
Title:State-Society Relations and Intangible Dimensions of State Resilience and State Building: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Author(s):POULIGNY, BéatriceDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Crucial social and cultural elements underpin state institutions and ensure that they function. This is
true in any context, but it is even more important to understand and truly acknowledge in “fragile”
ones. Conventional ...