Title:First or Second Order Referendums? Understanding the votes on the EU constitutional treaty in four EU member states
Author(s):GLENCROSS, Andrew; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO]Abstract:This article uses post-referendum Flash-Eurobarometer surveys to analyse empirically voter attitudes towards the EU Constitution in four member states. The theoretical model used incorporates first and second order variables ...
Title:Fiscal Imbalances and the Dynamics of Currency Crises
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MACKOWIAK, BartoszDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyzes links between the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) and the first generation models after Krugman (Journal of Money Credit and Banking 11 (1979), 311–325), exploring the idea that a synthesis ...
Title:For a few cents less'? Nested games in German broadcasting regulation
Author(s):MEIER, Henk ErikDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the fact that the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) has always tried to strengthen the political independence and autonomy of public service broadcasting (PSB), German media regulation has witnessed an extended ...
Title:For a few Cents less? Nested games in German broadcasting regulation
Author(s):MEIER, Henk ErikDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the fact that the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) has always tried to strengthen the political independence and autonomy of public service broadcasting (PSB), German media regulation has witnessed an extended ...
Title:The Force of a Weak Field. Law and Lawyers in the Government of Europe
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The idiom of exception is again central to the politics of insecurity in Europe, the United States, and Australia. One of the key characteristics of the jargon of exception is its suppression of political renditions of the ...
Title:Forecasting EU-Romania Trade by Gravity Analysis
Author(s):FERRANGINA, Ana; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; PASTORE, FrancescoDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper attempts to forecast the EU-Romania trade using the gravity approach developed in Ferragina, Giovannetti and Pastore (2005). The trade potential of Romania with five EU members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and ...
Title:Forecasting Italian Electricity Zonal Prices with Exogenous Variables
Author(s):GIANFREDA, Angelica; GROSSI, LuigiDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:In the last few years we have observed the deregulation in electricity markets and an increasing interest in price dynamics has been developed especially to consider all stylized facts shown by spot prices. Only few papers ...
Title:Forum "Convergence in the EU"
Author(s):HEFEKER, Carsten; TORRES, Francisco S.; BONGARDT, Annette; WUNSCH, Pierre; HERMANN, ChristophDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The EU has long viewed economic and institutional convergence as important goals, but the results thus far have been decidedly mixed, and there remain several open questions: How exactly should convergence be defined? How ...
Title:A Fragile Guideline to Development Assistance
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; TICCI, ElisaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The concept of fragility has gained an increasing relevance in development discourse. Nevertheless, it remains a fuzzy and elusive concept. This article presents a review of the literature, and identifies two main sets of ...
Title:Free Lunches? WTO as public good, and the WTO’s view of public goods
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The WTO can be viewed as a public good in that it provides a forum for negotiations which also produces the necessary legal framework to act as a support for agreed liberalization. To avoid any misunderstandings, in this ...
Title:Fundamental Rights in the EU after Kadi and Al Barakaat
Author(s):ISIKSEL, N. TurkulerDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article takes stock of the emerging scholarship on the European Court of Justice's 2008 Kadi decision and seeks to make sense of the court's apparent evasiveness towards international law. The article argues that Kadi ...