Title:FDIs and Growth: What cross-country industry data say
Author(s):CIPOLLINA, Maria; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; PIETROVITO, Filomena; POZZOLO, Alberto F.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The theoretical literature has discussed different channels through which foreign direct investments (FDI) promote host country’s economic growth, but empirical analyses have so far been rather inconclusive. In this paper, ...
Title:La femme dans les pays arabes: vers une remise en cause du système patriarcal?
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The stark picture of human development in the Arab world painted in a report written for the United Nations by leading Arab researchers became the subject of impassioned debate in late summer 2002. They found that it was ...
Title:Financial Crises and the Balance of Power in International Finance, 1890-2010
Author(s):CASSIS, YoussefDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Has the centre of gravity of international finance irreversibly started to shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific since the financial debacle of 2007-2008? This article discusses this highly topical question in a historical ...
Title:Finanziamento pubblico e mutamenti organizzativi nei partiti italiani
Author(s):PIZZIMENTI, Eugenio; IGNAZI, PieroDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Political Parties and Representation Observatory]Abstract:In the last decade, one of the major veins in political science has been the development of empirical researches on the impact of public funding on political competition. To a lesser extent, academic debate has focused on ...
Title:The Firm as an Inspector: Private Ordering and Political Rules
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MUELLER-DEBUS, Anna Kristin; THAUER, Christian R.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:With increasing fragmentation of worldwide production chains and the corresponding contracting relations between companies, the “firm as an inspector" has become a frequent phenomenon. Buyer firms deploy supervising ...
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 ...