Title:Vintage Capital
Author(s):BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, OmarDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Vintage Capital And the Dynamics of the AK Model
Author(s):BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A.; DEL RIO, FernandoDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The title “The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law” should make clear
what I identify to be the major gap not only in political discourse but also in legal
doctrine and in legal theory concerning European ...
Title:A Vision for the EU Gas Target Model: the MECO-S Model
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011-06-24Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The discussion on a target model for European gas network access started at the 18th Madrid Forum in
2010. This model shall provide a unifying vision on the future layout of the European gas market
architecture. That ...
Title:The Vocational School Fallacy Revised - Technical Secondary Schoold in Egypt
Author(s):ANTONINIS, ManosDate:2001Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAbstract:Egypt based its development aspirations, more than most countries in Africa and Asia, upon the expansion of an extensive system of technical schools. This policy was directly linked to the Nasser experiment of centrally ...
Title:The Volatility Costs of Procyclical Lending Standards: An Assessment Using a DSGE Model
Author(s):GRUSS, Bertrand; SGHERRI, SilviaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The ongoing financial turmoil has triggered a lively debate on ways of containing systemic risk and lessening the likelihood of future boom-and-bust episodes in credit markets. Particularly, it has been argued that banking ...
Title:Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and
growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth
independent of initial income per capita, ...
Title:A Volatility-based Theory of Fiscal Union Formation
Author(s):LUQUE, Jaime; MORELLI, Massimo; TAVARES, JoséDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In a setting where heterogeneous jurisdictions share a common policy, an increase in volatility breaks unanimous support for the status-quo and may prompt a subset of jurisdictions to favor either deepening the agreement ...
Title:Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of the Economic Crisis?
Author(s):PLEWA, PiotrDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:COMPAS Working PaperAbstract:In November 2008 the Spanish government authorized a voluntary return program for foreign workers in
order to decrease unemployment pressures in the wake of 2008/09 financial crisis. Voluntary return
programs are not ...
Title:Voting and Decisions in the ECB
Author(s):BRUECKNER, MatthiasDate:1997Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem
Author(s):LOCKWOOD, BenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of
the assumption that governments are benevolent, while retaining the assumption of
policy uniformity. If instead, decisions are made by ...
Title:The Vulnerability of Sub-Saharan Africa to the Financial Crisis: The Case of Trade
Author(s):BERMAN, Nicolas; MARTIN, PhilippeDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the early stage of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the conventional wisdom was that financial underdevelopment
of sub Saharan African economies may have been a bless-ing in disguise because it
insulated them from the ...
Title:Wage assimilation : migrants versus natives and foreign migrants versus internal migrants
Author(s):STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, ClaudiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal ...