Title:Long-run Cost Functions for Electricity Transmission
Author(s):ROSELLÓN, Juan; VOGELSANG, Ingo; WEIGT, HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Electricity transmission has become the pivotal industry segment for electricity restructuring. Yet, little is known about the shape of transmission cost functions. Reasons for this can be a lack of consensus about the ...
Title:Long-Term Capacity Adequacy in Electricity Markets: Reliability Contracts VS Capacity Obligations
Author(s):KHALFALLAH, HaikelDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we study the problem of long-term capacity adequacy in electricity markets. Two investment incentive mechanisms - Capacity obligations and Reliability contracts - are analyzed and compared to the benchmark ...
Title:L’académie européenne. Savoirs, experts et savants dans le gouvernement de l’Union européenne
Author(s):ROBERT, Cécile; VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article draws a general framework for a political sociology of “European studies” here defined as an array of academic undertakings simultaneously devoted to and built with EU political and bureaucratic actors. Studying ...
Title:Mainstreaming Gender in Global Governance
Author(s):HAFNER-BURTON, Emilie M.; POLLACK, Mark A.Date:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we seek to explain both the origins of gender mainstreaming as a 'policy frame' in International Relations, as well as the variable implementation of mainstrearning over time and across various international ...
Title:Manufacturing the EU Energy Markets: the Current Dynamics of Regulatory Practice
Author(s):HANCHER, Leigh; DE HAUTECLOCQUE, AdrienDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The constraints of the European legal and institutional structure for decision-making in energy greatly determine the quality and the dynamics of regulatory practice, in particular the legal tools we use to build markets ...
Title:Mapping Euro-Kurdistan
Author(s):BILGIN, AyataDate:2008Type of Publication:Article
Title:Mark-to-market Accounting and Liquidity Pricing
Author(s):CARLETTI, Elena; ALLEN, FranklinDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When liquidity plays an important role as in financial crises, asset prices may reflect the amount of liquidity available rather than the asset's future earning power. Using market prices to assess financial institutions’ ...
Title:Market and State in Europe
Author(s):GENSCHEL, PhilippDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:More than 40 years of European integration have led to an habituation of thinking of the European Community as something ideologically neutral, which transcends normal political debate. European issues, it seems, do not ...
Title:Market Coupling and the Importance of Price Coordination between Power Exchanges
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; VANDENZANDE, Leen; COLE, Stijn; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, market coupling stands for a further integration of wholesale trading arrangements across country borders. More specifically, it refers to the implicit auctioning of cross-border physical transmission rights via ...
Title:Market Power on the Colonial Frontier? Evidence From Sao Paulo 1800-1840
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, RicardoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Economists often assume that agricultural markets in history were competitive, and all producers received the same price. in contrast, most agricultural historians deem prices to differ among agents, according to their ...