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Université de Genève

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Solidarity in times of inequality: trade union politics and union membership effects

Europe has been marked by many profound changes since the 1980s. Among those prominently discussed in the political economy literature are the massive decline in trade union membership, the alarming rise in income inequality, and the increasingly disproportionate distribution of labor market risks. This thesis combines these issues and explores how unionization relates to income and...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

Short-term dynamics in issue-ownership and vote conversion

In this paper, my primary goal is to test if vote conversion is in line with voters' perceptions of parties' competence, i.e. if the competence change in favor of a party during the political campaign triggers vote conversion in favor of this same party. Then, I assess the moderating role of saliency and political knowledge and the difference between ‘valence' and...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy's functionalist hubris and political myopia

The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union's peculiar...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

The limits of governance: How far does policy analysis travel in international relations?

This article retraces the mutual rapprochement between Policy Analysis and International Relations and addresses its limits. Looking beyond the circle of advanced liberal-democratic economies, three limits are discussed: the need to specify the prerequisites of different modes of governance; to consider the relations of power and domination in these processes; and to look beyond...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

Labour rights promotion in the absence of conditionality ? How the EU and the US engage China and India

Labour standards are one of the most contested issues in economic relations between developed countries and emerging markets. As attempts to codify such standards in the WTO have failed, the EU and the US have intensified their efforts to promote them in bilateral and regional Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Whereas this practice has been quite consistent across the globe, the...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

Si l'Union européenne n'existait pas...

Quels sont les apports de l'Union européenne? Rares sont les textes qui traitent simplement à cette question. Ce texte y répond par une analyse de type contrefactuelle. Autrement dit: que serait-il passé si l'UE n'avait pas été mise en place?

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2017

Two logics of policy intervention in immigrant integration: an institutionalist framework based on capabilities and aspirations

The effectiveness of immigrant integration policies has gained considerable attention across Western democracies dealing with ethnically and culturally diverse societies. However, the findings on what type of policy produces more favourable integration outcomes remain inconclusive. The conflation of normative and analytical assumptions on integration is a major challenge for causal...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2017

Real Estate Company Reactions to Financial Market Regulation

This study investigates the impact of international financial regulation on listed real estate companies. In particular, we look at how three regulatory reforms undertaken in the aftermath of the global financial crisis have affected returns and credit default swap (CDS) spreads of real estate companies. The three reforms are aimed at regulating different segments of the market –...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2016

High Frequency House Price Indexes with Scarce Data

We show how a method that has been applied to commercial real estate markets can be used to produce high frequency house price indexes for a city and for submarkets within a city. Our application of this method involves estimating a set of annual robust repeat sales regressions staggered by start date and then undertaking an annual-to-monthly (ATM) transformation with a generalized...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2016

Real Estate Research in Europe

We investigate the evolution from 2000 to 2015 in the proportion of papers published by authors with a European affiliation in the three main international real estate journals. Then, we analyze papers with at least one European author and/or concentrating on Europe published from 2008 to 2015 in the two main European real estate journals by authors’ country of affiliation, by...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2016

Comments on : Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns and the Macroeconomy

This paper contains comments on Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns and the Macroeconomy.

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2016

Strategic Default, Debt Structure, and Stock Returns

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates how debt structure and strategic interaction among shareholders and debt holders in the event of default affect expected stock returns. The model predicts that expected stock returns are higher for firms that face high debt renegotiation difficulties and that have a large fraction of secured or convertible debt. Using a large...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2016

A diagnostic criterion for approximate factor structure

We build a simple diagnostic criterion for approximate factor structure in large cross-sectional equity datasets. Given a model for asset returns with observable factors, the criterion checks whether the error terms are weakly cross-sectionally correlated or share at least one unobservable common factor. It only requires computing the largest eigenvalue of the empirical cross-...

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Université de Genève

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