Title:War Contexts: The Criminal Responsibility of Private Security Personnel
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:This paper explores the criminal accountability of Private Security Company (PSC) personnel in war contexts. It focuses on the legal position of PSC personnel, defined on the basis of the relationship linking PSCs to the ...
Title:Water Misallocation and Environmental Externalities in Electricity Generation
Author(s):BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR, Etienne; VINELLA, AnnalisaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We explore the interactions between environmental externalities and intertemporal market power in electricity generation industries where thermal operators imperfectly compete with operators using scarce water stored in ...
Title:Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy
Author(s):COVIELLO, Decio; BOBBA, MatteoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:American Development Bank Working PaperAbstract:Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as 'weakly exogenous' we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results ...
Title:Welfare Integration through EU Law: The Overall Picture in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty
Author(s):DAMJANOVIĆ, Dragana; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2008Series/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The authors present a synthetic view of the evolution of the impact of EU law on the provision of welfare services in the member states of the EU. They distinguish, in this regard, between the core welfare services, in ...
Title:Welfare, Resources, and Luck-Egalitarianism
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The leading discourse about luck egalitarianism has been informed by the distinction
between equality of welfare and equality of resources. This paper attempts to illuminate its
significance by focusing on the status of ...
Title:What are the Issues in M&A arising from Electricity Market Restructuring?
Author(s):NEWBERY, DavidDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The energy merger was precipitated by energy market liberalisation that was often accompanied by
restructuring and privatisation putting companies into play and creating new market risks that could be
internalised by ...