Title:Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; WILSON, AlexDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Edinburgh Europa Paper SeriesAbstract:The reform of regional government has been a key element in efforts to reform the Italian state. The aims are administrative modernization; national integration; coherent regional development; fiscal responsibility and ...
Title:The Reframing of Law’s Imperial Frame: An Analysis of Jim Tully’s Theory of Post-Colonial Empire
Author(s):WALKER, NeilDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper provides a constructive critique of Jim Tully's innovative body of work on
the juridical nature of 'empire' in its contemporary post-colonial phase. Tully's work
emphasizes the high degree of continuity between ...
Title:Regime Switching Interest Rates and Fluctuations in Emerging Markets
Author(s):GRUSS, Bertrand; MERTENS, KarelDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We estimate regime switching models for emerging market interest rates and embed the obtained nonlinear dynamics in a small open economy model with a financial friction. We show that the presence of an infrequent regime ...
Title:Regional Initiative: Which Appropriate Market Design?
Author(s):MOEN, JanDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The European Union has a long experience and many success stories when it comes both to build a
borderless Europe and to ensure that benefits are fairly distributed among producers and end-use
customers. In some sectors ...
Title:Regional Integration, Fragility and Institution Building: An Analytical Framework Applied to the African Context
Author(s):VERDIER, ThierryDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to discuss how regional integration processes may contribute to statebuilding
and promote exit from fragility for countries characterised by weak state institutions. After
presenting a simple ...
Title:Regional Sustainable Development in the European Alps
Author(s):BALSIGER, JörgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whereas transboundary regionalism has become a dominant trend in European and international economic and political integration, contemporary earth system governance continues to be characterized by functionally separated ...
Title:Regulating Future Offshore Grids: Economic impact analysis on wind parks and transmission system operators
Author(s):KITZING, Lena; SCHRÖDER, Sascha T.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The increasing development of offshore wind parks in the European offshore territory may lead to meshed offshore grids in which each wind park might be connected to several countries. Such offshore grids could be subject ...
Title:Regulating Networks in the New Economy
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The regulation of network industries has undergone profound transformation in the past twenty years. The regulated industry is no longer the same, being exposed to new competitive dynamics having revolutionized their ...
Title:Regulating Private Military and Security Companies: A Multifaceted and Multilayered Approach
Author(s):CUSUMANO, EugenioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:Private military and security companies do not operate in a complete legal vacuum. The inherently transnational nature of the so called market for force, however, makes traditional single state regulation insufficient. ...