Dissertation--Fakultät der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften--Bamberg--Otto-Friedrichs-Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 447-468.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Marburg. / Issued also in "Publications de l'Institut Grand-Ducal, section historique, 1933, Bd. 65. Vita. Bibliography: p. [7].

Thesis--Leipzig. / Cover title. Vita. "Nur der zweite Teil einer grösseren Schrift, die unter dem Titel 'Die Sage vom Herzog von Luxemburg und die historische Persönlichkeit ihres Trägers', ... erscheint."

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Les archives documentaires du dentiste luxembourgeois Dr. Ernest Schneider (1885-<p>1954) constituent la base du présent travail. Ce fonds a été abordé par les sciences historiques<p>et sociales dans la première et par la discipline de l'archéologie rupestre dans<p>la seconde partie. Ces archives sont uniques au Grand-Duché dans le sens qu'il s'agit du<p>seul fonds archéologique contenant des documents épistolaires et iconographiques au lieu<p>d'artéfacts provenant de prospections. Dans un premier temps, le fonds épistolaires a été<p>abordé par une analyse de réseaux. Cette approche a permis de déterminer qu'il s'agit<p>d'un registre de contacts constitué par Schneider plutôt que d'un réseau au sens propre.<p>Schneider ne montre en effet aucune volonté à soigner ses contacts établis. Les réseaux de<p>ses alteri forment finalement la source d'informations la plus importante de Schneider :<p>ses contacts entament des recherches par eux-mêmes et dans leurs cercles de connaissances<p>afin de trouver des réponses aux requêtes du dentiste.<p>La seconde partie est consacré au travail archéologique effectué par Schneider de 1927<p>à 1954. Plus précisément les résultats publiés par Schneider en 1939 dans la monographie<p>Material zu einer archäologischen Felskunde des Luxemburger Landes sont revus et mis<p>à jour. Dans cette partie, le contenu des archives épistolaires est utilisé afin de suivre le<p>raisonnement scientifique de Schneider et afin de déterminer quelles hypothèses de quels<p>contacts sont intégrées par Schneider dans la monographie. L'influence des correspondants,<p>surtout des préhistoriens, est clairement déterminée dans cette partie, car Schneider attribue<p>la totalité des gravures aux temps pré- et protohistoriques. Lui-même qualifie son<p>travail de synthèse de la Pré- et Protohistoire du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Cette<p>hypothèse de datation est réfutée dans le présent travail. En effet, tenant compte du support<p>et de la nature des tracés gravés, les gravures figuratives ne datent pas d'au-delà de<p>l'époque médiévale tardive. La majorité des gravures ont très probablement été réalisées<p>entre le 19e et le 21e siècle, surtout lors des deux guerres mondiales lorsque les soldats<p>ennemis et alliés étaient stationnés dans les contrées de la région du Grès de Luxembourg. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Luxembourg is one of the most successful financial centers in the world. Initially associated with international syndicated loans, euro-bonds and euro-currency markets, Luxembourg has developed as a center for private banking and is currently the second largest center for the domiciliation of investment funds in the world after the US - with a portfolio equivalent to about sixty times the country’s GDP -, and the first captive reinsurance market in the European Union. As in many other financial centers, the interbank market plays an important role. This partly reflects intra-group operations of foreign banks using their Luxembourg branches and subsidiaries to adjust their liquidity position. More generally, Luxembourg has attracted foreign banks seeking to benefit from its favorable regulatory framework, political stability, language skills of the local workforce and the agglomeration of specialized skills in accounting and legal services.<p><p>The importance of the financial sector in Luxembourg implies that a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with explicit modeling of the financial sector is indispensable in order to properly take into account the interaction between the financial and the real sector in the economy and the interconnectedness between different financial institutional sectors (e.g. commercial banks and investment funds). Explicit modeling of the financial sector also allows for an analysis of how the economy might respond to financial shocks.<p><p>This dissertation contributes to the literature by developing two analytical tools:<p><p>1.\ / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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This thesis deals with member states' policy effectiveness in the European Union, using Luxembourg's capacity to get what it wanted in three crucial areas as a case study. Policy effectiveness is defined as the successful exercise of a member state's ability to include most of its policy preferences into the final legislation. The factors considered to influence policy effectiveness include the negotiation context, more specifically the decision-making procedure and time pressure. The distribution and intensity of other member states and holding the Presidency are also expected to play a role. Furthermore, individual-level factors such as experience, past relations or belonging to the same political family are rarely systematically included in research, but these are also included. Finally domestic politics, such as the approval procedure and institutional coordination are considered. The decision making process, especially within the Council, is still a black box to most scholars - a challenge which in this research is met by elite interviews with the negotiators involved, by process tracing and by document analysis. I empirically assess three cases where Luxembourg is reputed to have been policy effective: the creation of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) in 1996, the reform of the same in 2005, and the payment of unemployment benefits to frontier workers (EC Regulation 883/2004). In terms of Luxembourg's policy effectiveness, I find the following: 1) that Luxembourg was highly policy effective in the creation of the SGP, due to Jean- Claude Juncker's double hat of Finance Minister and Prime Minister, as well as his expertise and his personal relations with other Heads of State. 2) In the reform of the SGP, that Luxembourg was not policy effective despite holding the Presidency; Juncker was President of the Eurogroup and still had that same double hat. The widely distributed and intense preferences of France and Germany combined to produce an agreement which Luxembourg did not favour, but had nevertheless helped to produce. 3) Finally, that, in Regulation 883/2004, Luxembourg was medium policy effective because of domestic constraints, a low distribution and intensity of preferences of the other member states and because of unanimity. All of my case studies show evidence of two developments in terms of decision-making processes: the shift of decision-making from public to informal arenas, and the involvement of the European Council in areas which are not formally within its competence. Indeed, the compromises found were proposed in the Council of Ministers after several key member states had seen and agreed to them beforehand. Incidentally, the evidence also indicates that the European Parliament did not influence the legislative outcome at all in these cases. These results suggest several practical guidelines for member states.

Dissertation--Marburg--Philipps-Universität, 2006. / Bibliogr. p. XXIII-LV.