Title:Acceptance and Social Rules
Author(s):PERRY, AdamDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
Title:Access Regulation, Entry, and Investment in Telecommunications
Author(s):MANENTI, Fabio; SCIALÀ, AntonioDate:2011-06-24Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in
telecommunications. The entrant has the option to enter the market with or without having preliminary
invested in its own infrastructure; ...
Title:Access Regulation, Financial Structure and Investment in Vertically Integrated Utilities:Evidence from EU Telecoms
Author(s):CAMBINI, Carlo; RONDI, LauraDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We examine theoretically and empirically the relationship between access regulation, financial
structure and investment decisions in network industries, analyzing if financial variables can be
used as a strategic device ...
Title:Accounting for the Changing Role of Family Income in Determining College Entry
Author(s):WINTER, ChristophDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Assessing the importance of borrowing constraints for college entry is key for education
policy analysis in the U.S. economy. I present a computable dynamic general
equilibrium model with overlapping generations and ...
Title:The Achievement of the EU Electricity Internal Market through Market Coupling
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The achievement of the internal market for energy is going ahead in the EU 15 since a model is
emerging for “coupling the national markets for electricity”.
For about 15 years the EU 15 was made up of national markets ...
Title:Acquisition of Information and Share Prices: An Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Dissonance
Author(s):ARGENTESI, Elena; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; MOTTA, MassimoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper deals with the determinants of agents’ acquisition of information.
Our econometric evidence shows that the general index of Italian
share-prices and the series of Italy’s financial newspaper sales are ...
Title:Adapting the Litterman prior for cointegrated VARs
Author(s):MARKUN, MichalDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The paper presents a novel prior for Bayesian VAR models, characterized by explicit modelling of cointegration that avoids certain unattractive restrictive properties of the priors used previously. The potential of the ...
Title:Addressing Liability of Automated Systems in Air Traffic Management
Author(s):CONTISSA, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the current operational scenario of Air Traffic Management (ATM), liability is mainly allocated to the operators who are responsible for air traffic control and air navigation. However, this scenario will rapidly change: ...