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Title:How China built the world's biggest patent office : the pressure driving mechanism Author(s):CHENG, Wenting; DRAHOS, Peter

Date:2018Citation:International review of intellectual property and competition law, 2018, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 5–40Type:ArticleAbstract:In 2011 China’s patent office received more patent applications than any other patent office in the world. While explanations for this patent surge focus on some relevant factors such as the use of subsidies for application ...

Title:How consumer law travels Author(s):SVETIEV, Yane

Date:2013Citation:Journal of Consumer Policy, 2013, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 209-230Type:ArticleAbstract:This article synthesizes a number of the findings and themes emerging from the various case studies presented about the efficacy of the transplantation process of the EU consumer acquis in some of the EU accession and new ...

Title:How COVID-19 is altering our conception of citizenship Author(s):DZANKIC, Jelena

; PICCOLI, Lorenzo

Date:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:LSE; EUROPP; Blogpost; 2020; [RSCAS]Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency, but it also has the potential to impact on many other elements of European societies beyond health services. Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli write on the effect the ...

Title:How crises shape circles of solidarity : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy Author(s):FERWERDA, Jeremy; MAGNI, Gabriele; HOOGHE, Elisabeth

; MARKS, Gary

Date:2023Citation:Comparative political studies, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected boundaries of solidarity? Human-induced crises that impose asymmetric costs tend to sharpen pre-existing divides, but natural disasters often strengthen solidarity. The pandemic ...

Title:How democratic elections differ Author(s):ROSE, Richard

Date:2020Citation:Richard ROSE (ed.), How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 1-18Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:When democracy is defined as government by the people, for the people and of the people, a great deal of ambiguity is packed into eleven words. Government by the people is literally impossible in any political system larger ...

Title:How did the COVID-19 pandemic change citizens’ attitudes towards the EU, towards national governments and towards each other? Author(s):HEMERIJCK, Anton

; NASR, Mohamed

Date:2021Type:VideoSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2021; Public HealthAbstract:This presentation will report on the results of the April 2021 wave of the EUI-YouGov European Solidarity Survey and compare them to previous years. Did COVID-19 enhance or erode trust in national governments? Did it boost ...

Title:How did the latest increase in fees in England affect student enrolment and inequality? Author(s):GEVEN, Koen

Date:2015Citation:Adrian CURAJ, Liviu MATEI, Remus PRICOPIE, Jamil SALMI and Peter SCOTT (eds), The European higher education area : between critical reflections and future policies, Dordrecht ; Cham : Springer, 2015, pp. 479-500Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This paper presents a first analysis of the increase of undergraduate tuition fees to £9,000 (€11.000) in English higher education in 2012. I use a semi-experimental research design to estimate the effect of the reforms, ...

Title:How did trade in GVC-based products respond to previous health shocks? : lessons for COVID-19 Author(s):SHINGAL, Anirudh

; AGARWAL, PrachiDate:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2020/68; Global Governance Programme-415; [Global Economics]Abstract:Using difference-in-difference analysis, we examine how trade in GVC-based products may have responded to two previous health shocks - SARS and MERS. Our identification strategy exploits differences in the time period of ...

Title:How different is Yugoslavia? Author(s):UVALIC, Milica

Date:1991Citation:Commission of the European Communities (ed.), European economy : the path of reform in Central and Eastern Europe, Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1991, European economy. Special edition ; 2, pp. 199-213Type:Contribution to book

Title:How do business interest groups respond to political challenges? : a study of the politics of German employers Author(s):PASTER, ThomasDate:2018Citation:New political economy, 2018, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 674-689Version:Based on parts of EUI PhD thesis, 2009Type:ArticleAbstract:Social scientists dealing with business and politics have tended to focus mostly on the power of business and less on the political challenges and constraints that business interest groups face. This paper analyses how ...

Title:How do Candidates Spend Their Money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification Author(s):SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, MatthewDate:2011Citation:Electoral Studies, 2011, 30, 1, 91-101, Special Symposium on Electoral Democracy in the European UnionType:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We present a novel approach to the study of campaign effectiveness using disaggregated spending returns from the 2007 Irish general election. While previous studies have focused on overall levels of expenditure as a predictor ...

Title:How do cross-pressures affect immigration attitudes? : party and educational influences Author(s):VRÂNCEANU, Alina

Date:2022Citation:West European politics, 2022, Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 1433-1461Type:ArticleAbstract:Immigration has become an increasingly politicised issue in many European countries. While prior research emphasises the role of party cues and education in shaping public attitudes to immigration, we know less about the ...

Title:How do established voters react to new parties? : the case of Italy, 1985-2008 Author(s):FRANKLIN, Mark N.; VAN SPANJE, JoostDate:2012Citation:Electoral studies, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 297-305Type:ArticleAbstract:The Italian party system largely collapsed in the early 1990s, providing us with a natural experimental situation in which voters were confronted with new parties - indeed, with an entirely new party system. How did they ...

Title:How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market Author(s):MCRAE, Shaun D.; WOLAK, Frank A.Date:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2009/36; Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy PolicyAbstract:This paper uses the framework in Wolak (2003a,b and 2007) and data on half-hourly offer curves and market-clearing prices and quantities from the New Zealand wholesale electricity market over the period January 1, 2001 to ...

Title:How do governments justify their budgets? A comparative dataset Author(s):KARREMANS, Johannes

Date:2023Version:Data sources for this dataset: 1) Collection and elaboration of data from stenographic protocols from national parliaments: Bundestag (Germany); Nationalrat (Austria); Assemblée Générale (France); Congreso (Spain). 2) Collection and elaboration of data from the annual official economic plans published by the Italian Finance Ministry: Documento di Economia e Finanza.3) Data on govenrments' annual surplus/deficit retrieved from Eurostat (European Commission). 4) Data on countries' annual credit ratings retrieved from tradingeconomics.com (Trading Economics).Type:DatasetSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; Research Data; 2023Abstract:This dataset contains policy justifications from the annual budget plans that governments have presented to their parliaments in five eurozone countries ranging from autumn 2007 to autumn 2020. More specifically, the dataset ...

Title:How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? : studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations Author(s):EGE, Jörn; BAUER, Michael W.

; WAGNER, NoraDate:2021Citation:International review of administrative sciences, 2021, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 737-754Type:ArticleAbstract:The article investigates how international public administrations, as corporate actors, influence policymaking within international organizations. Starting from a conception of international organizations as political-ad ...

Title:How do multiproduct exporters react to a change in trade costs Author(s):BERTHOU, Antoine; FONTAGNÉ, LionelDate:2013Citation:Scandinavian journal of economics, 2013, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 326–353Type:ArticleAbstract:We use data on individual French exporters to document how a change in trade costs, following the introduction of the euro, affected the export margins of firms in relation to export decisions, the number of products ...

Title:How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? Author(s):FASSIO, Claudio; MONTOBBIO, Fabio; VENTURINI, Alessandra

Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis Working Papers; 2015/20

Title:How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK Author(s):FASSIO, Claudio; MONTOBBIO, Fabio; VENTURINI, Alessandra

Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:IZA Discussion Papers; 2015/9062Abstract:This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors ...

Title:How do people choose their commuting mode? : an evolutionary approach to travel choices Author(s):CALASTRI, Chiara; BORGHESI, Simone

; FAGIOLO, GiorgioDate:2019Citation:Economia politica, 2019, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 887-912Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[Florence School of Regulation]; [Climate]Abstract:A considerable amount of studies in the transport literature is aimed at understanding the behavioural processes underlying travel choices, like mode and destination choices. In the present work, we propose the use of ...