Title:Marco Polo y la Cruzada: Historia de la literatura de viajes a las Indias en el siglo XIV
Author(s):GARCIA ESPADA, AntonioDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:La aparición del libro de Marco Polo está relacionada con un renovado interés por la Cruzada, la posibilidad de establecer contacto con la retaguardia del Islam y la obtención así de la supremacía del Occidente latino sobre ...
Title:The ‘Marco Polo’ Effect: Chinese FDI in Italy
Author(s):PIETROBELLI, Carlo; RABELLOTTI, Roberta; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Chatham House International Economics Programme PaperAbstract:The study investigates the motivations driving Chinese outward direct investment to Italy. The analysis is based on secondary sources and in-depth interviews with key informants and senior managers of Chinese affiliates ...
Title:The “Marco Polo” Effect: Chinese FDI in Italy
Author(s):PIETROBELLI, Carlo; RABELLOTTI, Roberta; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:PRIN 2007 Working PaperAbstract:This study investigates the motivations driving Chinese outward direct investment to Italy. The analysis is based on secondary sources and in-depth interviews with key informants and senior managers of Chinese affiliates ...
Title:Mark-to-market Accounting and Liquidity Pricing
Author(s):CARLETTI, Elena; ALLEN, FranklinDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When liquidity plays an important role as in financial crises, asset prices may reflect the amount of liquidity available rather than the asset's future earning power. Using market prices to assess financial institutions’ ...
Title:Market and State in Europe
Author(s):GENSCHEL, PhilippDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:More than 40 years of European integration have led to an habituation of thinking of the European Community as something ideologically neutral, which transcends normal political debate. European issues, it seems, do not ...
Title:Market behaviour with large amounts of intermittent generation
Author(s):GREEN, Richard; VASILAKOS, NicholasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper evaluates the impact of intermittent wind generation on hourly equilibrium prices and output, using data on expected wind generation capacity and demand for 2020. Hourly wind data for the period 1994-2005 are ...
Title:Market Coupling and the Importance of Price Coordination between Power Exchanges
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; VANDENZANDE, Leen; COLE, Stijn; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, market coupling stands for a further integration of wholesale trading arrangements across country borders. More specifically, it refers to the implicit auctioning of cross-border physical transmission rights via ...
Title:Market Design with Wind: Managing low-predictability in intraday markets
Author(s):HENRIOT, ArthurDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper evaluates the benefits for wind power producers to trade in the intraday electricity markets in a context of massive penetration of intermittent renewables. Using a simple analytical model we find out that there ...
Title:Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market, 1800-2000
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PERSSON, Karl GunnarDate:2007Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This paper argues that the conventional view which sees international transport costs reductions as the major force in price convergence cannot be upheld when the period under scrutiny is extended to the last two centuries. ...
Title:Market integration and market efficiency. The case of 19th century Italy
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines market integration in Italy in the 19th century, focusing on wheat. Wheat prices converged well before political Unification (1859–1861) but the process halted during the 1860s only to resume in the ...
Title:Market Integration and Public Services in the European Union
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2011Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Collected Courses of the Academy of European LawAbstract:In a period when the nature and scope of the European internal market is hotly contested, this collection offers a topical analysis of the most pressing issues relating to market integration and public services in the EU. ...