Title:Administrative and Judicial Collective Enforcement of Consumer Law in the US and the European Community
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In the consumer society, as it stands today in Western-type democracies, consumers
have a far larger choice of products and services originating from all over the world
than they did decades ago. Risks associated with ...
Title:Administrative and Judicial Enforcement in Consumer Protection: The Way Forward
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper analyses the relationship between administrative and judicial enforcement in Consumer Protection. It first sets out the European state of development with regard to injunctions, thereby focusing on the different ...
Title:The Adoption of Network Codes in the Field of Energy: Availability of judicial review in a multi-stage procedure
Author(s):VLACHOU, CharikleiaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The adoption of network codes is a crucial step towards the conclusion of the internal energy market by the year 2014. This paper aims to assess the availability of judicial review in the multi-stage procedure established ...
Title:Adverse selection and intermediation
Author(s):GARELLA, Paolo G.Date:1987Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI Working Papers
Title:Adverse Shocks and Social Protection in Africa: What Role for Formal and Informal Financial Institutions?
Author(s):ODURO, Abena D.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper presents evidence on the wide range of adverse shocks reported by African households.
The current financial and economic crisis adds another layer of risk to al-ready vulnerable households
and firms. In ...
Title:Africa and the Global Economic Crisis: A Risk Assessment and Action Guide
Author(s):NAUDÉ, WimDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is increasingly apparent that, despite earlier hopes, the global economic crisis will have a significant
impact on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to co-ordinate and craft the most appropriate
responses ...
Title:The African Financial Development Gap
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; SENBET, LemmaDate:2010-10-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Economic growth in Africa has long been disappointing. We document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We ...
Title:The African Financial Development Gap
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; SENBET, LemmaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economic growth in Africa has long been disappointing. We document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We ...
Title:After finalité? The Future of the European Constitutional Idea
Author(s):WALKER, NeilDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper sets out to examine the prospects for EU constitutionalism in the light of the protracted and perhaps insuperable difficulties surrounding the ratification of the 2004 Constitutional Treaty. It argues that these ...
Title:After Liberation: the Journey Home of Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-46
Author(s):CICHOPEK, AnnaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I tell the stories of Jewish survivors who made their way to their hometowns in
Poland and Slovakia between the fall of 1944 and summer 1948. I describe liberation by the
Soviet Army and attitudes toward ...
Title:Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote
Author(s):KATSANIDOU, AlexiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...
Title:Agency and the Structure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites
Author(s):DEEGAN-KRAUSE, Kevin; ENYEDI, ZsoltDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The study of cleavages focuses primarily on constraints imposed by socio-demographic factors. While
scholars have not ignored the agency of political elites, such scholarship remains fragmented among
sub-fields and lacks ...
Title:Agenda Control in Presidential Systems Measurements Alternatives to Capture Latent Variables
Author(s):AJENJO FRESNO, NataliaDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper presents alternative modeling strategies to capture latent variables such as agenda control. The methodological approach offers competing models for theory testing among institutional, partisan and procedural ...