Title:Of 'Good' and 'Bad' Subsidies: European State Aid Control through Soft and Hard Law
Author(s):BLAUBERGER, MichaelDate:2009-11-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:European state aid control, a part of competition policy, typically follows the logic of negative integration. It constrains the potential for member states to distort competition by reducing their ability to subsidise ...
Title:On the Selection of Financing Instruments to Push the Development of New Technologies: Application to clean energy technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RUESTER, Sophia; LIONG, Siok-JenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Achieving climate policy goals requires mobilizing public funds to bring still immature clean technologies to competitiveness and create new technological options. The format of direct public support must be tailored to ...
Title:'One Man Alone'? A Longue Durée Approach to Italy's Foreign Policy under Berlusconi
Author(s):BRIGHI, ElisabettaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By adopting a longue durée approach this paper aims to move the debate on Italy's foreign policy under the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi beyond the presentism and personalization currently dominating it. It argues firstly ...
Title:Openness and the Case for Flexible Exchange Rates
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Models of stabilization in open economy traditionally emphasize the role of exchange rates as a substitute for nominal price flexibility in fostering relative price adjustment. This view has been recently criticized on the ...
Title:Optimists and Skeptics: Why do people believe in the value of their single vote?
Author(s):BLAIS, André; RHEAULT, LudovicDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We investigate the origins of voters' beliefs about the value of their single vote. We construe such beliefs as a function of psychological predispositions and exposure to information about the competitiveness of the ...
Title:The Organization of Regulated Production: Complementarities, Correlation and Collusion
Author(s):JANSEN, Jos; JEON, Doh-Shin; MENICUCCI, DomenicoDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze the choice between vertical separation (VS) and vertical integration (VI) when two regulated firms produce complementary inputs with correlated costs and are protected by ex post break-even constraints. First, ...
Title:Outsider Parties in Government in Western Europe
Author(s):MCDONNELL, Duncan; NEWELL, JamesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent decades, a growing number of ‘outsider parties’ have entered governing centre-left and centre-right coalitions across Western Europe. Here the authors define outsider parties as those which – even when their ...
Title:Outward FDI from Developing Country MNEs as a Channel for Technological Catch-Up
Author(s):AMIGHINI, Alessia; RABELLOTTI, Roberta; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:One of the more recent aspects of the globalization process is the rise and the increasing outward expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from developing countries. Among the more promising effects of this phenomenon ...
Title:An Overview of the Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What caused the crisis? Initially many thought that it was due to incentive problems in the U.S. mortgage industry. However, after the large economic meltdown following Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in September 2008, it ...
Title:Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a reassessment
Author(s):GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior partisan attachments. However, the validity of ...