Granola Nazis and Neoliberal Mystics

in Bruno, Valerio Alfonso (Ed.) Polidemos (in press)

Regional variation, internal change and language contact in Luxembourgish_ Results from an app-based language survey

in Taal en Tongval (in press)

Like many other small languages in Europe, Luxembourgish is embedded in a specific multilingual situation, which is leading to intricate patterns of language variation. While language contact - here: with ... [more ▼]

Like many other small languages in Europe, Luxembourgish is embedded in a specific multilingual situation, which is leading to intricate patterns of language variation. While language contact - here: with German and French - is clearly one of the main factors in language variation, Luxembourgish is furthermore characterized by regional variation within the country and internal changes, both related to the mainly spoken status of Luxembourgish and ongoing language standardization. In order to address language variation from a broad perspective, in this article a crowd-sourcing approach for data collection and several case studies for linguistic variables are going to be presented. For data collection a novel smartphone application has been developed which allows to elicit variable linguistic phenomena in a coherent way and which is at the same time easy to use for the participants. This technique allowed to collect audio speech data for over 3700 speakers, which permits to analyze variation on the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and lexical level on a hitherto unachieved quantitative level. The aims of this long-term project are thus to document spoken Luxembourgish and its variation and to develop a new kind of linguistic atlas, in which variation is not only illustrated as a geographical phenomenon but further correlated with several social and demographic factors. Data analyses will then provide a comprehensive picture of language variation and general trends in Luxembourgish. [less ▲]

The Legality of EU Sanctions under International Investment Agreements

in European Foreign Affairs Review (in press)

Constitutive Powers and Justification: The Duty to Give Reasons in EU Monetary Policy

in Dawson, Mark; Bobic, Ana (Eds.) Substantive Accountability in Europe’s New Economic Governance (in press)

The transformation of the ECB powers in the last decade opened fundamental questions pertaining to the judicial review of monetary policy decisions and, more deeply, to the role of law in the government ... [more ▼]

The transformation of the ECB powers in the last decade opened fundamental questions pertaining to the judicial review of monetary policy decisions and, more deeply, to the role of law in the government of money. This chapter characterizes the powers of the ECB as constitutive and traced in this constitutive nature the roots for the difficulties of judicial review over monetary policy decisions. It argues that constitutive powers justify a shift in understanding the role of law in relation to the action of executive bodies. Law can and must operate in the absence (or irrespective) of judicial review, and support accountability outside of the courtroom. This last point is demonstrated through the analysis of the legal and constitutional scope of the duty to give reasons in EU law [less ▲]

Well-being and working from home during COVID-19

in Information Technology and People (in press)

Purpose – The authors track the well-being of individuals across five European countries during the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and relate their well-being to working from ... [more ▼]

Purpose – The authors track the well-being of individuals across five European countries during the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and relate their well-being to working from home. The authors also consider the role of pandemic-policy stringency in affecting well-being in Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have four waves of novel harmonised longitudinal data in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Sweden, covering the period May–November 2020. Well-being is measured in five dimensions: life satisfaction, a worthwhile life, loneliness, depression and anxiety. A retrospective diary indicates whether the individual was working in each month since February 2020 and if so whether at home or not at home. Policy stringency is matched in per country at the daily level. The authors consider both cross- section and panel regressions and the mediating and moderating effects of control variables, including household variables and income. Findings – Well-being among workers is lower for those who work from home, and those who are not working have the lowest well-being of all. The panel results are more mitigated, with switching into working at home yielding a small drop in anxiety. The panel and cross-section difference could reflect adaptation or the selection of certain types of individuals into working at home. Policy stringency is always negatively correlated with well-being. The authors find no mediation effects. The well-being penalty from working at home is larger for the older, the better-educated, those with young children and those with more crowded housing. Originality/value – The harmonised cross-country panel data on individuals’ experiences during COVID-19 are novel. The authors relate working from home and policy stringency to multiple well-being measures. The authors emphasise the effect of working from home on not only the level of well-being but also its distribution. [less ▲]

Introduction

in Water and Sea in Word and Image / L'Eau et la mer dans les textes et las images (in press)

De la nudité au dénuement

in Mode modeste : entre éthique et esthétique (in press)

Enhancing reading and digital competencies: Leveraging Instagram Literature Reviews to Increase Learners' Reading Motivation

in andererseits (in press), 11/12

Diskurs-Figuren. Wie Politik und Öffentlichkeit in Luxemburg über Sprache sprechen

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (in press)

Splitting fields of X^n-X-1 (particularly for n=5), prime decomposition and modular forms

in Expositiones Mathematica (in press)

We study the splitting fields of the family of polynomials $f_n(X)= X^n-X-1$. This family of polynomials has been much studied in the literature and has some remarkable properties. Serre related the ... [more ▼]

We study the splitting fields of the family of polynomials $f_n(X)= X^n-X-1$. This family of polynomials has been much studied in the literature and has some remarkable properties. Serre related the function on primes $N_p(f_n)$, for a fixed $n \leq 4$ and $p$ a varying prime, which counts the number of roots of $f_n(X)$ in $\mathbb F_p$ to coefficients of modular forms. We study the case $n=5$, and relate $N_p(f_5)$ to mod $5$ modular forms over $\mathbb Q$, and to characteristic 0, parallel weight 1 Hilbert modular forms over $\mathbb Q(\sqrt{19 \cdot 151})$. [less ▲]