Testing Mundell's Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory

Moral Intuition, Moral Theory, and Practical Ethics

OCA theory and EMU Eastern enlargement - An empirical application -

Already before the final introduction of the single European currency there have been negotiations on a further enlargement of the Eurozone to the East. The accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) to Euroland is likely to be realised within the next 10 years and it is an important issue to assess whether these candidates are better or worse suitable for EMU membership than...

Research Notes Working Paper Series Managing Director Oca Theory and Emu Eastern Enlargement -an Empirical Application - Oca Theory and Emu Eastern Enlargement -an Empirical Application

The accession of several Central and Eastern European Countries to Euroland is likely to be realised within the next years. Some studies aim at analysing the suitability of these Euro aspirants for currency union with EMU by evaluating the related macroeconomic costs. Still, they are prone to the Lucas critique since they do not consider endogeneity of the relevant criteria. We build on methodo...

The Value of the Intuition ( on an Intuitive Set Theory

Title: Fernán: The value of the intuition (On an intuitive set theory without antinomies). Hereby it is presented a new set theory (generalized as the so-called system theory, fully respectful with the dictates of intuition (including the existence and numerability of the universal set, of which all beings are elements) and capable to overcome all the logical difficulties that forced logicians ...

Ethnography, theory and systems design: from intuition to insight

The idea for this paper came from a debate at the 1998 ISCRAT conference in Denmark on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). A leading activist in the movement to bring CHAT into systems design, Bonnie Nardi, asked the question; would design not bene"t more from training better ethnographers than from burdening them with such a complex set of theoretical concepts and debates as CHAT? This...