Title:The Creation of a Market for Retail Electricity Supply
Author(s):LITTLECHILD, StephenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In September 1989, as part of its privatization program, the Government laid down an eight year
timetable for opening up to retail competition the entire electricity market of England and Wales,
phased over the period ...
Title:Credibilty Concerns in Optimal Policy Design
Author(s):LU, Yang K.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides a transparent framework for thinking about optimal investment in reputation by a trustworthy government. This topic has been neglected by the existing literature on reputation games but is potentially ...
Title:Credit Market Competition and Capital Regulation
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:It is commonly believed that equity finance for banks is more costly than deposits. This suggests that banks should economize on the use of equity and regulatory constraints on capital should be binding. Empirical evidence ...
Title:Credit Market Competition and Liquidity Crises
Author(s):CARLETTI, Elena; LEONELLO, AgneseDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a two-period model where banks invest in reserves and loans, and are subject to aggregate liquidity shocks. When banks face a a shortage of liquidity, they can sell loans on the interbank market. Two types of ...
Title:Credit within the Firm
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; PISTAFERRI, Luigi; SCHIVARDI, FabianoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We exploit time variation in the degree of development of local credit markets and matched employer-employee data to assess the role of the firm as an internal credit market. In less developed local credit markets firms ...
Title:Creditor’s Fault: In Search of a Comparative Frame
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In this chapter, I compare the role of the creditor’s (promisee’s) conduct in contractual relationships in
US and European legal systems. Different approaches to comparative negligence and mitigation are
first considered, ...
Title:Crime and the UK Economy
Author(s):OSBORN, Denise R.Date:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:Crime sans châtiment ou mission accomplie?"
Author(s):DUPUY, Pierre-MarieDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:On 26 February 2007, the International Court of Justice delivered a judgment without
any precedent. For the first time in the history of international adjudication, a sovereign
State was condemned on the basis of the ...
Title:Crisis and trust in national and European Union institutions : panel evidence for the EU, 1999 to 2012
Author(s):ROTH, Felix; NOWAK-LEHMANN D., Felicitas; OTTER, ThomasDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyses the effects of the crisis on trust in national and European Union institutions within an EU27 country sample from 1999 to 2012. The paper finds that the overall negative trends in trust throughout the ...
Title:The Crisis of the Eurozone
Author(s):BOHLE, DorotheeDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:An important tension had been underlying the first decade of the European Monetary Union. On the one hand, governments had embraced a revolutionary prospect when designing its institutions. They called on market forces and ...
Title:Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Investments
Author(s):SUPPONEN, MattiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The objective of this paper is to analyse what targets and criteria should be followed for electricity transmission investments which would be beneficial for Europe. The paper indicates that there is serious underinvestment ...
Title:CSR as a signal to inform collective action
Author(s):TZAVARA, DionisiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Collective action in the form of a boycott or a campaign or any other threat that affects the operations
of a firm is considered an instrument in the hands of organizations and consumers to control firm
behaviour and to ...
Title:Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question
by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First,
we document that this trust is affected not ...