Title:The Impacts of Housing Derivatives Trading on the Housing Market
Author(s):ULUC, ArzuDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Housing is the largest asset class in the world. However, in contrast to other major asset classes, including stocks and bonds, it does not have a well-developed derivatives market. In fact, housing derivatives can provide ...
Title:The Impacts of the Current Financial and Economic Crisis on Migration in the Spain-Morocco Corridor
Author(s):ARANGO, Joaquín; GONZÁLEZ QUIÑONES, FernandoDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:Abstract
In 2009, it seems clear that the period of relatively rapid and sustained increase of international migration has come to a halt or, at any rate, slowed down as a result of the financial and economic crisis that ...
Title:Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a socialist Bucharest, reconstructing its past (1953-1968)
Author(s):GRAMA, EmanuelaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper analyzes the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of professional and political alliances in the post-war socialist bloc. I argue ...
Title:An Imperative to Adjust? Skill formation in England and Germany
Author(s):WENTZEL, JoachimDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with education systems and the change observed within them alongside changes in the wider political economy. The research is conducted by way of a comparative case study of England and Germany, two ...
Title:Imperfect Competition in Agricultural Markets: evidence from Ethiopia
Author(s):OSBORNE, TheresaDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Drawing upon unique transaction-level data from rural Ethiopia, this paper tests for general forms of imperfect competition among rural wholesale traders. These traders are key to the grain distribution system as they ...
Title:Imperfect Competition in an Open Economy.
Author(s):CHRISTODOULAKIS, Nicos; WEALE, MartinDate:1990Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Implementing Incentive Regulation and Regulatory Alignment with Resource Bounded Regulators
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; KHALFALLAH, Haikel; PEREZ, Yannick; RIOUS, Vincent; SAGUAN, MarceloDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is puzzling today to explain both the diversity and the rationale of regulators’ practice vis-à-vis network monopolies. We argue that two fundamental characteristics should be considered when defining the most appropriate ...