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Title:Dealing with dependency differently : the political economy of policy deviations in the Visegráds Author(s):SIMONS, Jasper Paul
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Why have the Visegráds – i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – dissimilarly deviated from the political economy status quo of the early 2000s, even though their transition to liberal market democracy and FDI-led ...


Title:Institutional dynamics in an economy seen as a complex adaptive system Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel
Date:2018Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Università Bocconi IEFE Working Papers; 2018/104; ClimateAbstract:The primary objective of this paper is to study the role of institutions evolution assuming that economies are generally out of equilibrium. The focus is developing a logical framework that allows describing economies as ...

Title:The transformation of EU external economic governance : law, practice, and institutional change in common commercial policy after Lisbon Author(s):KLEIMANN, DavidDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:The Laeken Council Declaration of 2001 committed the European Community to a constitutional reform that aimed at enhancing the legitimacy of EU governance through “more democracy, transparency, and efficiency”. In the area ...
Title:'You wouldn't steal a car' vs 'information wants to be free' : regulatory failure of copyright law through the prism of systems theory Author(s):GRACZ, Katarzyna
Date:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:The thesis aims at explaining current regulatory crisis of copyright law (understood as its inability to regulate social dynamics as regards production, reproduction, dissemination of and access to information goods) through ...

Title:The Leipzig fur industry as an industrial district : collective action, lead firms and world market transformation (1870-1939) Author(s):DECLERCQ, RobrechtDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:While it has been commonly held that both industrialisation and the emergence of modern capitalism favoured the rise of big business, regionally entrenched and decentralised modes of production have nonetheless persisted. ...
Title:Contractual Networks and the Access of Small and Medium Enterprises to Global Value Chains Author(s):JOPPERT SWENSSON, Luana F.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/28Abstract:In the last three decades, the organisation of production has undergone major transformations, characterised by the movement from vertical integration towards de-verticalisation, with the increasing of outsourcing and ...
Title:Contractual Formalization and Governance of Long-Term Relationships Author(s):GOBBATO, MarcoDate:2011-01-01Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2011/22; [REFGOV]Abstract:In this paper I discuss the relationship between contractual formalization, contractual incompleteness and the governance of long-term relationships. I analyze data on contracts for the production and distribution of goods ...
Title:Inter-Organizational Trust as a Shift Parameter in the Extended Transaction Cost Framework: A First Application to the LNG Industry Author(s):RUESTER, SophiaDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2010/18; Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy Policy; [Florence School of Regulation]; [Energy]Abstract:This paper provides an empirical analysis examining the effect of both transaction characteristics and
the institutional environment on governance choice. Using a dataset of 237 corporate-specific value
chains in the ...
Title:Institutional and regulatory competition in Europe : connecting some pieces of the puzzle on when, how and why it can work Author(s):GABOR, BarbaraDate:2010Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2010
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This thesis aims to detect and describe some determinants of the emergence, functioning and implications of institutional competition within the EU. Starting from elements in existing literature, an analytical framework ...
Title:Trade mark paradoxes in European brand competition Author(s):GRANMAR, ClaesDate:2010Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2010
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:The development of a uniform European trade mark law regime has taken so many different paths over the past decades that the state of the law is now more or less incomprehensible to everyone. The regime is primarily shaped ...