Title:Fixing the Quorum: Representation versus Abstention
Author(s):ZWART, SanneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The majority of the participating voters in referenda does not
necessarily re°ect the majority of the whole population since voters can ab-
stain. This paper shows that a quorum exists for which the outcome of the
referendum ...
Title:Fleshing Out the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Output Composition and the Role of Financial Frictions
Author(s):MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Financial frictions affect the way in which different macroeconomic series respond to a monetary policy shock. We embed the financial accelerator of Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) into a medium-scale DSGE model ...
Title:Flexibility and European Unification: The logic of differentiated integration
Author(s):KOLLIKER, AlkuinDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Flexibility and European Unification identifies legal differentiation (flexibility) as the European Union's key mechanism for overcoming deadlock during the past two decades. Based on a newly developed theory of differentiated ...
Title:Flexible Contracts
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; TALLON, Jean Marc; GHIRARDATO, PaoloDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of rigid, non discretionary contracts. The main focus of the paper lies in the analysis of the costs of ...
Title:Flexible Contracts
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; TALLON, Jean Marc; GHIRARDATO, PaoloDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of rigid, non discretionary contracts. Delegation grants some flexibility in the choice of the action by ...
Title:Flexible Global Carbon Pricing: A Backward-Compatible Upgrade for the Kyoto Protocol
Author(s):STOFT, StevenDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The Kyoto Protocol’s approach of assigning emission targets, or “caps,” promises certainty that it cannot deliver, because it exacerbates problems with international cooperation and commitment. Global carbon pricing addresses ...
Title:Flying Tiger: International Relations theory and the politics of advanced weapons
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode—the joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger Helicopter (used in the James Bond film Goldeneye, incidentally)—to ...
Title:Focusing the Mind? How the European Union Affects Issue Coverage in National Elections
Author(s):NANOU, KyriakiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:It is commonplace to assume that what determines the coverage of issues in parties’ political agendas are domestic factors such as their own issue priorities and those of their political rivals, the attention devoted by ...