Title:The Globalization of Steam Coal Markets and the Role of Logistics: An empirical analysis
Author(s):ZAKLAN, Aleksandar; CULLMANN, Astrid; NEUMANN, Anne; VON HIRSCHHAUSEN, ChristianDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:In this paper, we provide a comprehensive multivariate cointegration analysis of three parts of the steam coal value chain - export, transport and import prices. The analysis is based on a rich dataset of international ...
Title:Globalization, Empire and Natural Law
Author(s):JAMES, HaroldDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Three controversial concepts are central to discussion on how international order originates, how it operates, and ultimately how we should respect it: globalization, empire and natural law. Each of these is examined in ...
Title:"Going Local" as a Strategy to Enter Arab National Television Markets: Examples from Lebanon and Jordan
Author(s):NÖTZOLD, Katharina; PIES, JudithDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Nascent Jordanian television stations want to distinguish themselves from state-owned Jordan TV and pan-Arab satellite channels by announcing their intention to broadcast mostly 'local' items of interest. In Lebanon, several ...
Title:Greek Education Policy and the Challenge of Migration: An 'intercultural' view of assimilation
Author(s):GROPAS, Ruby; TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the policy responses and conceptual underpinnings of intercultural education in Greece. In the past two decades, and as a result of migration, Greece has seen its demography significantly and irreversibly ...
Title:Growth and Finance, European Integration and the Lisbon Strategy
Author(s):PADOAN, Pier Carlo; MARIANI, FabioDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article considers the relationship between financial and technological integration in Europe. It finds that market-based financial systems support output growth, investment and total factor productivity (TFP) more ...
Title:Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna Agreement and the ambitions ...
Title:High exchange-rate volatility and low pass-through
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Two specifications of an open-economy model are shown to generate high exchange-rate volatility and low exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT). In the model, price discrimination causes ERPT to be incomplete in both the short ...
Title:How do Candidates Spend Their Money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification
Author(s):SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, MatthewDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We present a novel approach to the study of campaign effectiveness using disaggregated spending returns from the 2007 Irish general election. While previous studies have focused on overall levels of expenditure as a predictor ...
Title:'I have a Child and a Garden': Young people’s experiences of care giving in transnational families
Author(s):PANTEA, Maria-CarmenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article concerns young people's experiences with care giving when their parents migrate. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 21 young people from Transylvania (Romania), the article examines their accounts of living ...
Title:Ideology and History
Author(s):STRATH, BoDate:2006Type of Publication:Article