Title:A European answer to the Spanish Question: the SPD and the end of the Franco dictatorship
Author(s):MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ, AntonioDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article deals with the position of the SPD vis-à-vis Franco's Spain since the mid 1960s, and explains it in the context of the party's foreign policy agenda aimed at promoting European détente. It is argued that SPD ...
Title:A feminist approach to citizenship
Author(s):BUBECK, DiemutDate:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:European Forum
Title:A Functional Coefficient Model View of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; XU, FangDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What does the saving-investment (SI) relation really measure and how should the SI relation be measured? These are two of the most discussed issues triggered by the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Based on panel data ...
Title:A Gas Target Model for the EU: Florence School Proposes MECO-S
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Florence School of RegulationAbstract:The discussion about the need for and the pros and cons of a gas target model started around the beginning of 2010 and found its first point of culmination in the conclusions of the 18th Madrid Forum in September 2010 which ...
Title:A Gas Target Model for the European Union: Contrasting MECOS and EURAM Proposal
Author(s):ASCARI, Sergio; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Florence School of RegulationAbstract:At the 18th Madrid Forum (2010) the discussion of an EU gas target model was officially launched. It aims at defining a non-binding vision giving coherence to the coming set of European gas framework guidelines and grid ...
Title:A general test for distortions in performance measures
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Results from the incentive literature suggest that performance measures are often distorted, eliciting dysfunctional and unintended responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in ...
Title:À la carte - Die Ukraine und der Freihandel mit der EU
Author(s):LANGBEIN, JuliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Die Ukraine verhandelt mit der EU über ein umfassendes Freihandelsabkommen. Das osteuropäische Land soll die Regelungen des EU-Binnenmarkts übernehmen, im Gegenzug werden tarifäre Handelsbarrieren abgebaut. Dagegen sperren ...
Title:A la carte: Ukrainian positions on free trade with the EU
Author(s):LANGBEIN, JuliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ukraine is negotiating with the EU on a comprehensive free-trade agreement. The east European country is to adopt the regulations of the EU internal market; in exchange, trade barriers such as tariffs will be dismantled. ...
Title:A Markup Model for Forecasting Inflation for the Euro Area
Author(s):RUSSELL, Bill; BANERJEE, AnindyaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We develop a small model for forecasting inflation for the euro area using quarterly data over the period June 1973 to March 1999. The model is used to provide inflation forecasts from June 1999 to March 2002. We compare ...
Title:A Matter of Dependency - Gender in British Income-Maintenance Provision
Author(s):DALY, Mary E.Date:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The welfare state has fostered a large volume of academic investigation but the core of its scholarship has been on the relationship between class forces and different systems of welfare. The possibility of a gender effect ...