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 ...
Title:The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010
Author(s):WILSON, Bruce M.; RODRÍGUEZ-CORDERO, Juan CarlosDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]
Title:Getting European Universities into Shape
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Most European universities lag behind the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. A key challenge is to raise resources per student in Europe to US levels. The Lisbon agenda demands fundamental reform of the European ...
Title:Global vs. Low Carbon Economy: The Case of the Revised European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Europe is tightening its climate change policy and with that its pollution control legislation, supposedly to lead the way towards a low carbon economy. As the rest of the world is lagging behind in greenhouse gas emission ...