Title:Designing the European Gas Market: More liquid & less natural?
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Designing a gas market is defining how the commodity, the transmission and ancillary services are traded. The European Union has built the commoditization of natural gas through the socialization of several costs of trade. ...
Title:The Development of Minority Legislation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine: Comparative analysis
Author(s):ULASIUK, IrynaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The question of language rights of minorities is one that used to be jealously guarded within each State’s domestic domain, since it goes, in several ways, to the heart of State sovereignty. Despite this, we have seen, in ...
Title:Di lotta e di governo: The Lega Nord and Rifondazione Comunista in Office
Author(s):ALBERTAZZI, Daniele; MCDONNELL, Duncan; NEWELL, JamesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Since 1994, Italian politics has seen a number of coalitions including parties whose identity has been strongly based on their ‘outsider’ status as uncompromising opposition movements which would not previously consider ...
Title:Differentiated Integration Revisited: EU energy policy as experimental ground for a Schengen successor?
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; DE HAUTECLOCQUE, Adrien; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:For the EU-27 the accommodation of national diversity and conflicting preferences with regard to the pace and scope of the development of the EU energy policy remains a major problem. The resulting institutional paralysis, ...
Title:Do Chinese exports crowd-out African goods? An econometric Analysis by country and sector
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Trade is one of the key channels through which Chinese economic growth affects the world economy and especially developing countries. African manufacturing sector is confined to few traditional sectors. Even if at times, ...
Title:Do Conditional Benefits Reduce Equilibrium Unemployment?
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although unconditional unemployment benefits destroy jobs in competitive and noncompetitive labor markets, conditional benefits can spur job growth in noncompetitive labor markets. Unconditional benefits reduce the penalty ...
Title:Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Author(s):BRÜCKER, Herbert; FACCHIN, Stefano; VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic ...
Title:Do Ministers Do What They Say? Ministerial Unreliability, Collegial and Hierarchical Governments
Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; MANNING, NDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper is concerned with the extent to which individual members of governments reliably implement the decisions of the governments to which they belong, a matter which is rarely discussed, if ever, and yet can be ...
Title:Do Voters Affect or Elect policies? A new perspective, with evidence from the U.S. Senate
Author(s):ALBOUY, DavidDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Using quasi-experimental evidence from close elections, – henceforth LMB – argue competition for voters in U.S. House elections does not affect policy positions, as incumbent Senate candidates do not vote more extremely ...