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    Title: European networking and training for national competition enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011) : selected case notes  Author(s): MONTI, Giorgio; PARCU, Pier Luigi Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The working paper includes a collection of the case notes written by the national judges who attended the European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011). The training program was organized ...
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    Title: A concept of the global to conceive global governance : four metaphorical proposals  Author(s): INNERARITY, Daniel Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper suggests four metaphors to correct our habitual way of thinking about globalization. It begins with the idea that the world can be understood more effectively based on the properties of gases, rather than liquids; ...
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    Title: A survey of econometric methods for mixed-frequency data  Author(s): FORONI, Claudia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The development of models for variables sampled at different frequencies has attracted substantial interest in the recent econometric literature. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common techniques, including ...
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    Title: Short-term allocation of gas networks in the EU and gas-electricity input foreclosure  Author(s): VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Strategic interaction between gas and electricity sectors is a major issue in the implementation of competitive energy markets. One relevant aspect of the problem is the potential for input foreclosure between gas and power ...
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    Title: Financing investment in the European electricity transmission network : consequences on long-term sustainability of the TSOs financial structure  Author(s): HENRIOT, Arthur Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This article focuses on the ability of European TSOs to meet the demand for substantial investments in the electricity transmission grid over the next two decades. We employ quantitative analysis to assess the impact of ...
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    Title: The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots  Author(s): LAUKYTE, Migle Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
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    Title: French in the eyes of others : cultural citizenship, marginalization, and France’s middle-class North African second-generation  Author(s): BEAMAN, Jean Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, based on 45 interviews with adult children of North African immigrants in the Paris metropolitan area, I discuss those individuals who, despite their educational and professional successes, remain excluded ...
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    Title: Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian north-south divide  Author(s): BIGONI, Maria; BORTOLOTTI, Stefania; CASARI, Marco; GAMBETTA, Diego; PANCOTTO, Francesca Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that ...
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    Title: Interaction between gas and electricity market-based trading in the short run  Author(s): VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Gas-fired power plants are increasingly used in the production of electricity, which in turn makes them a relevant part of the gas demand. In this paper, we investigate whether the current designs of gas and power markets ...
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    Title: Risk-sharing and contagion in networks  Author(s): CABRALES, Antonio; GOTTARDI, Piero; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate how the capacity of an economic system to absorb shocks depends on the specific pattern of interconnections established among financial firms. The key trade-off at work is between ...
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    Title: Multilevel judicial governance in European and international economic law  Author(s): PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Law and governance need to be justified vis-à-vis citizens in order to be accepted as legitimate and supported by civil society. This contribution argues that the legal and judicial methodologies of multilevel governance ...
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    Title: Financial intermediation, house prices, and the distributive effects of the U.S. great recession  Author(s): MENNO, Dominik; OLIVIERO, Tommaso Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper quantifies the effects of credit spread and income shocks on aggregate house prices and households’ welfare. We address this issue within a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households ...
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    Title: Bite the bullet : trade retaliation, EU jurisprudence and the law and economics of ‘taking one for the team’  Author(s): HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper discusses the Fedon case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which involved a claim for compensation by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized ...
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    Title: Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland  Author(s): NYGÅRD, Stefan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...
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    Title: Labor force composition and aggregate fluctuations  Author(s): MENNUNI, Alessandro Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Labor composition by gender, age, and education has undergone dramatic changes over the last forty years in the United States. Furthermore, the volatility of total market hours differs systematically between genders, age ...
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    Title: 'All’s well that ends well' : the strategy of electoral (mis)behavior in competitive-authoritarian regimes  Author(s): LEVIN, Ines Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions and periodic elections are sponsored by the authoritarian ruler, but voting outcomes are sometimes manipulated to prevent government turnover. In this ...
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    Title: Subnational parliaments in EU policy control : explaining the variations across Europe  Author(s): BORONSKA-HRYNIEWIECKA, Karolina Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The inclusion of subnational parliaments into the Early Warning System for subsidiarity control has generated transforming dynamics in the parliamentary modus operandi in EU decentralized systems. The empirical findings ...
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    Title: Prince or pariah? : the place of freedom of religion in a system of international human rights  Author(s): ZUCCA, Lorenzo Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The human right to freedom of religion (HRFR) at the international level is a deeply contested concept and is interpreted in radically different ways in the respective historical constitutional instruments of the US and ...
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    Title: Human rights require ‘cosmopolitan constitutionalism’ and cosmopolitan law for democratic governance of public goods  Author(s): PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The more ‘globalization’ transforms ‘national public goods’ demanded by citizens into transnational ‘aggregate public goods’, the stronger becomes the need for reviewing ‘Westphalian governance failures’ and related ‘legal ...
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    Title: The Lisbon moment : challenges and innovations for EU diplomacy  Author(s): SABATHIL, Gerhard; SHEN, Wenwen Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The increasing complexity, interdependence and acceleration of global developments, digital media and the growing share of global public goods, have all contributed to the publicitisation, sectoralisation and summitization ...