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Standards of Proofs in Sequential Merger Control Procedures

In Concurrences Review, Damien Neven et al. model merger control procedures as a process of sequential acquisition of information in which mergers can be cleared after a first phase of investigation.
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WORKING PAPER

Distance(s) and the Volatility of International Trade(s)

In this International Economics Working Paper, Cédric Tille et al. evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks –arising from deposits outflow at the bank level– and of the aggregate liquidity shock related to the US tapering observed between May and September of 2013.
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WORKING PAPER

Smart Development Banks

The conventional paradigm about development banks is that they exist to target well-identified market failures. However, market failures are not directly observable and can only be ascertained with a suitable learning process. How, then, can policymakers know what activities should be promoted? Ugo Panizza et al. analyse this question in their International Economics Working Paper.
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WORKING PAPER

Greening the WTO: EGA, Tariff Concessions and Policy Likeness

This paper by Petros Mavroidis and Damien Neven (RSCAS, 2019) considers the APEC and EGA agreements which grant tariff concession through HS classifications beyond the six digit level (“ex outs”) in favour of “green” goods and discusses how these initiatives fit into the WTO legal regime.
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EDITED BOOK

The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity, and the New Health Economy

Edited by Ilona Kickbusch et al., this volume (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) focuses on the new health economy and the sometimes controversial dimensions of the private sector helping countries achieve UHC. Includes

• a chapter by Ilona Kickbusch and Christian Franz: “Conceptualizing the Health Economy”
• and another by Jean-Louis Arcand et al.: “The Relationship between Health Employment and Economic Growth” , which notably finds that the role of healthcare employment in terms of its impact on economic growth turns out to be larger in magnitude than that of the other usual suspects, such as financial development.
  

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PAPER

Strengthening Public Health Leadership in Africa

The Ebola virus disease crisis in West Africa revealed critical weaknesses in health policy and systems in the region. This paper by Michaela Told et al. (in Academic Medicine) analyses the West African Global Health Leaders Fellowship, a new programme to help develop a next generation of public health leaders in West Africa.
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ARTICLE

Can Multifunctional Livelihoods Including Recreational Ecosystem Services (RES) and Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) Maintain Biodiverse Forests in the Brazilian Amazon?

In Ecosystem Services, Susanna Hecht et al. use large scale spatially explicit modelling and case study based analyses to assess the links between RES and the benefits for wellbeing of traditional livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Global Climate Policy: Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges

This volume edited by Urs Luterbacher and Detlef Sprinz (MIT Press, 2018) offers a fresh analyses of the current international climate change regime that considers both the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for new forms of international cooperation. Includes

• a chapter with Thierry Bréchet: “Computational Models, Global Climate Change, and Policy” 
• and another with Carla Norrlof and Jorge E. Viñuales: “Environmental Protection, Differentiated Responsibility, and World Trade: Making Room for Climate Action”

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ARTICLE

Building an Effective Coalition to Improve Forest Policy: Lessons from the Coastal Tripa Peat Swamp Rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia

This paper by Denis Ruysschaert and Marc Hufty (in Land Use Policy) seeks to understand the enabling factors which have made possible the halting and reversing deforestation of the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest.
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PHD THESIS

Beyond the North: The Diffusion of Private Sustainability Governance in China

Over the last two decades, non-state actors have launched many governance initiatives to reduce negative environmental and social impact of global markets. To what extent, and under what conditions, can private sustainability governance gain traction in China, a country known for the scale of its economy and for its authoritarian regime? Yixian Sun explored this surprisingly understudied issue in his recent PhD thesis.
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ARTICLE

The Folk Theorem of Decreasing Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: What Do the Data Say?

It is increasingly claimed that unconventional monetary policies are subject to decreasing effectiveness in supporting growth and raising the inflation rate. There are good reasons to believe that the effects of further asset purchases by central banks and of moving the interest rate deeper in negative territory progressively decline. But has it been happening? This paper by Ugo Panizza and Charles Wyplosz (in Russian Journal of Money and Finance) attempts to provide an answer by looking at the Eurozone, the UK, the US and Japan.
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WORKING PAPER

At Your Service! Liquidity Provision and Risk Management in 19th Century France

This paper (in CEPR Publications) by Maylis Avaro, PhD Candidate in Economic History, and Vincent Bignon uses a historical study to show a solution to the trade-off faced by central banks between providing liquidity to a broad group of financial intermediaries and the risk that this easy access may fuel moral hazard.
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How to Solve the Greek Debt Problem

Greece’s debt currently stands at close to EUR 330 billion, over 180% of GDP, with almost 70% owed to European official creditors. The fact that Greece’s public debts must be restructured is by now widely accepted. What remains controversial is the extent of debt relief needed to make Greece’s debt sustainable. This PIIE Policy Brief by Ugo Panizza, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Charles Wyplosz et al. argues that the debt relief measures outlined by the Eurogroup will not be sufficient to restore the sustainability of Greece’s debt.
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The Cyclicality of International Public Sector Borrowing in Developing Countries: Does the Lender Matter?

The paper by Arturo Galindo and Ugo Panizza (in World Development) shows that international government borrowing from multilateral development banks is countercyclical while international government borrowing from private sector lenders is procyclical.
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CHAPITRE D’OUVRAGE COLLECTIF

Les entreprises agricoles neuchâteloises

L'ouvrage Entreprises neuchâteloises: entre continuité et renouvellement (dir. F. Courvoisier et L. Tissot, Éditions G d’Encre) présente un panorama diversifié des entreprises familiales neuchâteloises. La contribution d'Yvan Droz et Jérémie Forney porte sur celles du secteur agricole.
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WORKING PAPER

The Political Economy of Change in MENA

In this paper (in The Politics of Change in the Middle East, Durham Middle East Papers), Giacomo Luciani observes that we can understand the wave of popular uprisings and protest movements across the region since 2011 – possibly the most large-scale and visible evidence of change for a generation – as being essentially the result of the diminished circulation of oil rent that has marked the region since the early 1990s.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

Conceptualizing Militias in Africa

This piece by Rebecca Tapscott in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics (OUP) sketches a possible approach to organise the field of militia studies around the institutionalisation of violence, such that militias would be understood as a product of the arrangement of violence.
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Making Markets Responsible: Revisiting the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Force

The normalization of commercial security epitomised by the disappearance of the term mercenary has gone so far that the main significance of the state monopoly on the legitimate use of force (SMLF) has become one of obscuring the ongoing transformations towards ever-increasing commercial authority over the use of force. It is the main argument of Anna Leander in The Sociology of Privatized Security (Palgrave Macmillan).
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PHD THESIS

The Perilous Reconciliation Journey between the United States of America and Japan

How did these two historical enemies manage to shape and mould a strong political community setup from the ashes of WWII, and maintain peaceful bilateral relations? Chanaka Jun Takazawabuilds on the existing PSC framework and conceptualisations, but also offers deeper perspectives and mindfulness about transforming past dehumanising attitudes into inclusive, humanising behaviours of peaceful change.
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PHD THESIS

The Politics of Intervention: The Role of Psychological Distance in Foreign Policy Decision Making

Sorina Ioana Crisan develops a new theory to help understand why and when junior allies choose to support a superpower’s military intervention.
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PHD THESIS

International Organizations in the Crosshairs: Protecting Civilians in South Sudan

This doctoral research by Hannah Dönges aims to understand the protection of civilians in the rather understudied setting of the armed conflicts in South Sudan and generate a policy-relevant framework that grasps the agency of international organisations.
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GLOBAL CHALLENGES

New Grammars of War: Conflict and Violence in the 21st Century

A research dossier produced by the Graduate Institute’s Research Office, in collaboration with the CCDP, explores the role played in contemporary armed conflict by factors such as military technologies (killer robots), sexual violence, migration, gangs’ criminality, attacks on humanitarians, urban warfare, or the privatisation of security.
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ARTICLE

Beyond Issue Diversification: N-VA and the Communitarisation of Political, Economic and Cultural Conflicts in Belgium

Providing an in-depth analysis of the multi-dimensional ideology of Flemish nationalist party New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), this article by Emmanuel Dalle Mulle et al. (in West European Politics) contributes to the literature on stateless nationalist and regionalist parties (SNRPs) by arguing that N-VA has gone beyond issue diversification through a strategy of “issue communitarisation”.
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ARTICLE

Pour une «ethnographie délinquante»: vingt ans avec les gangs au Nicaragua

Dans Cultures & Conflits, l’article de Dennis Rodgers explore les  nombreux dilemmes inhérents à la méthode ethnographique en se basant sur des recherches sur les dynamiques de gangs au Nicaragua, entamées en 1996 et toujours en cours, afin de plaider pour une «ethnographie délinquante».
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Policy Learning in Norwegian School Reform: A Social Network Analysis of the 2020 Incremental Reform

This policy study by Gita Steiner-Khamsi et al. (in Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy) examines how policymakers and policy experts in Norway made us of research and studies – produced in Norway, in the Nordic countries and outside the Nordic region – to explain the 2020 incremental school reform.
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WORKING PAPER

Firm Decisions under Jump-Diffusive Dynamics

Neha Deopa and Daniele Rinaldo present in this paper (International Economics Department Working Paper HEIDWP04-2019) a model of firm investment under uncertainty and partial irreversibility in which uncertainty is represented by a jump diffusion. This allows to represent both the continuous Gaussian volatility and the discontinuous uncertainty related to information arrival, sudden changes and large shocks.
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OUVRAGE COLLECTIF

Normer l’oubli

Sous la direction de Vincent Négri et Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire (IRJS Editions, 2018) posent des jalons pour analyser les parcours, spontanés ou contraints, de l'oubli et explorer les asymétries entre mémoire et oubli, les deux notions n'étant pas le miroir l'un de l'autre. Avec les chapitres suivants:

• Le devoir d’oubli: notes de lecture, de Vincent Négri et Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
• Les hétérochronies de la mémoire, de Jean-François Bayart
• Le droit (international), vestale au Temple de l’oubli? d'Éric Wyler
• Naufragés et rescapés, fantômes et statues, oubliés et oublis dans les archives des institutions humanitaires, de Davide Rodogno
• Le pouvoir d’oublier, de Pierre-Marie Dupuy
• Contre l’oubli? Cinéma et disparitions forcées au Liban (1990-2015), de Riccardo Bocco

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ARTICLE

Transnational Accreditation for Public Schools: IB, PISA and Other Public–Private Partnerships

This article by Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Leonora Dugonjić-Rodwin (in Journal of Curriculum Studies) examines a particular type of public–private partnership (PPP) that is rarely studied in comparative educational policy studies: one in which a government funds privately run international schools.
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Paul Guggenheim Prize 2017 attributed to Alumnus Vladyslav Lanovoy 

On 15 April, Vladyslav Lanovoy was awarded this prize for his study Complicity and Its Limits in the Law of International Responsibility (Hart Publishing, 2016).
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