651 research outputs found
The Politics of Antitrust and Merger Review in the European Union: Institutional Change and Decisions from Messina to 2004. CES Working Paper, no. 142, 2007
No full textAntitrust regulation and the related merger review are essential for making a market economy work. Mer-ger review is also among the most prominent powers of the European Commission in the Common Market of the EU. How did this supranational actor come to acquire such power? And what explains the variation in the Commission's decisions in some of the trans-atlantically most controversial merger review cases in recent years? In this paper, we develop a modified neofunctionalist theory as a historical institutionalist the-ory of institutional change that integrates elements of rational choice and social constructivism. We argue that it provides a superior explanation of (1) the institutional development of the European Commission’s competence over antitrust matters and merger review from the 1950s negotiations over the Treaty of Rome through the changes of 2004 and (2) the Commission’s decisions in some of the most prominent cases, where a high level of politicization makes a neofunctionalist explanation least likely
Saint Dimitri of Rostov and Dostoevsky
No full textAcademic literature until now has ignored the possibility of seeing the roots of Dostoevsky’s idea of a God-bearing people in the Saint Dimitri of Rostov’s conception of the passion bearer. But, on the contrary, obvious parallels between the two permit the author to speak of a deliberate coincidence. On the other hand, the two are divided in their conceptions of the reasons for human sufferin
Die Herkunft des byzantinischen Familiennamens Λάσκαρις
No full textIn this article, the author suggests a new etymology for the name Laskaris, born by a family that gave Byzantium one of its imperial dynasties. Older hypotheses are examined, especially the generally accepted one according to which Laskaris is a name of Persian origin meaning "warrior." The author suggests Lascaris rather comes from a Arabic word defining a physical feature: "blonde" or "red-haired.REB 62 2004 p. 269-273
Dimitri Theodorides, Die Herkunft des Byzantinischen Familiennamens Αάσκαρις. — Cet article propose une nouvelle étymologie du nom Lascaris, porté par une famille qui donna une dynastie à Byzance. L'auteur reprend les hypothèses proposées, notamment celle qui est généralement admise et qui ferait de Lascaris un nom d'origine perse, signifiant le « guerrier ». L'auteur propose plutôt d'y voir un mot arabe caractérisant un trait physique : le « blond » ou le « roux ».Theodoridis Dimitri. Die Herkunft des byzantinischen Familiennamens Λάσκαρις. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 62, 2004. pp. 269-273
Take me to church
No full textThis thesis is a narrative of masculinity and Latinx identity. More specifically, multiple generations of Puerto Ricanness.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Dimitri Reye
Book Launch | Dimitri Van Den Meerssche's The World Bank's Lawyers
No full textOn Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri van den Meerssche (Queen Mary University London).In addition to hearing from the author, discussants included Negar Mansouri (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Dr Gail Lythgoe (University of Manchester), Dr. Tommaso Soave (Central European University) and Dr. Ahmed Memon (Cardiff School of Law and Politics). Florenz Volkaert (Ghent University) moderated.<br/
Book Launch | Dimitri Van Den Meerssche's The World Bank's Lawyers
No full textOn Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri van den Meerssche (Queen Mary University London).In addition to hearing from the author, discussants included Negar Mansouri (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Dr Gail Lythgoe (University of Manchester), Dr. Tommaso Soave (Central European University) and Dr. Ahmed Memon (Cardiff School of Law and Politics). Florenz Volkaert (Ghent University) moderated.<br/
Book Launch | Dimitri Van Den Meerssche's The World Bank's Lawyers
No full textOn Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri van den Meerssche (Queen Mary University London).In addition to hearing from the author, discussants included Negar Mansouri (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Dr Gail Lythgoe (University of Manchester), Dr. Tommaso Soave (Central European University) and Dr. Ahmed Memon (Cardiff School of Law and Politics). Florenz Volkaert (Ghent University) moderated.<br/
Unemployment insurance in Algeria : implications for a labor market in transition
No full textTo predict how Algeria's unemployment crisis will evolve, the author evaluates the Algerian unemployment insurance system's ability to finance itself, to affect employment decisions, and promote enterprise restructuring. The main conclusion is that industrial restructuring has serious and persistent implications for the labor market. In an environment where many equilibria are possible, there is a real danger of reaching a high unemployment equilibrium. The big-bang experience of structural adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe transition economies resulted in large-scale unemployment. Despite considerable restructuring progress, structural rigidities still exist in the labor market, and long-term unemployment has persisted. One advantage of the big-bang approach is adjustment speed, but the resulting unemployment may be too costly for Algeria's economy, especially if it persists. A more modern mixed bang approach would incorporate active employment measures to mitigate entrenched unemployment. The policies will maintain or enhance human capital through work, so idle workers don't lose their skills. Flex-time arrangements would help workers maintain an attachment to the labor force. However minor, such work would help workers avoid the traps of long-term unemployment. Two striking conclusions emerge from the Central and Eastern European experience: a) unemployment is not essential to enterprise restructuring and labor market adjustment;and b) growing long-term unemployment is self-fulfilling and results in higher and persistence unemployment. Although active employment measures are costly and have relatively low rates of return in the short run, they can be marginally effective as part of a long-term strategy.Health Economics&Finance,Labor Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Markets,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Markets,Economic Theory&Research,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform
Emerging properties of the citations network
No full textTreballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2024, Tutor: Dimitri MarinelliThis essay presents an analysis of the American Physical Society (APS) dataset, comprising metadata and citations of APS articles. We focus on network structures behind the dataset.
We build three different networks: citation network, author citation networks, and co-author network.
We compute key network metrics such as degree distribution, clustering coefficients, and centrality measures. We expect the degree distribution of the different networks to follow a power-law distribution. Through simulations, we compare the citation network structure to randomly generated directed graphs built by the configuration model with the same degree distribution, obtaining substantially different structural configurations. The in-degree distribution of the citation network exhibited scale-free properties, compatible with the preferential attachment network development.
This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the APS citation network and emphasizes the importance of temporal and preferential attachment mechanisms in shaping real-world network
Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear investigations of colloidal systems: experiments and constitutive model predictions
No full textThis thesis features Large Amplitude Oscillatory shear (LAOS) experiments that characterize the nonlinear viscoelastic properties of dispersed systems, including suspensions, colloidal gels, polymer solutions and micellar surfactant solutions. The characterization of the nonlinear viscoelasticity of soft matter provides valuable insights into the microscopic structure of these systems and its dependence on external mechanical excitation
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