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    Title: The European Dilemma of Social-Democratic Parties. A Study of Debates at National Party Conferences of the PS, SPD and Labour Party  Author(s): GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: While the extant literature of EU politicization has revolved around parties anchored at the margins of the political spectrum, this working paper considers the political and electoral implications of European integration ...
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    Title: Providers’ Liabilities in the New EU Data Protection Regulation: A threat to internet freedoms?  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: In this paper I shall consider certain aspects of the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation recently advanced by the EU Commission, which is meant to substitute the existing Data Protection Directive as well as the ...
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    Title: Areas of Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Fields of conflict?  Author(s): SAFJAN, Marek Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Although the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has already became a fully binding act of primary EU law, the controversies concerning the area of Charter's application do not seem to cease. Nevertheless, ...
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    Title: Methodology in the New Legal World  Author(s): VAN GESTEL, Rob; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Law is a discipline in transition moving, among others, from a predominantly monodisciplinary dogmatic tradition towards more and more attention for multidisciplinary and empirical legal research, from a national to a more ...
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    Title: Bringing EU Migration Cooperation to the Eastern Neighbourhood: Convergence beyond the acquis communautaire?  Author(s): HERNÁNDEZ I SAGRERA, Raül; KORNEEV, Oleg Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The European Union (EU) external cooperation in the migration field has been mostly developed in Eastern Europe. Indeed, the EU migration cooperation with Russia and Eastern Partnership countries has so far had outcomes ...
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    Title: The EUI Goes East: Perspectives for research on Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe  Author(s): TRIPKOVIC, Boško Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The paper examines the capacities for research on Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE) at the EUI. It consists of two layers of inquiry. The first part presents the subject-field analysis of research related ...
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    Title: CO2 Abatement from RES Injections in the German Electricity Sector: Does a CO2 price help?  Author(s): WEIGT, Hannes; DELARUE, Erik; ELLERMAN, A. Denny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The overlapping impact of the Emission Trading System (ETS) and renewable energy (RE) deployment targets creates a classic case of interaction effects. Whereas the price interaction is widely recognized and has been ...
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    Title: Emerging Normative Frameworks on Transnational Human Rights Obligations  Author(s): VANDENHOLE, Wouter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Human rights problems and issues have become global, but human rights law has continued to focus primarily or exclusively on the domestic or territorial State. Given the multiplicity of State and non-state actors with ...
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    Title: Europe and the Mediterranean: When obsession for security misses the real world  Author(s): ROY, Olivier Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Security (fear of immigration, Islamism and terrorism) has been the main factor in the European decision to launch a protracted and complex program of cooperation and development with the Arab Mediterranean countries. The ...
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    Title: Material Deprivation and the Outcomes of Elections  Author(s): GUGUSHVILI, Alexi Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Center for Social Sciences, Applied Social Research Programme Working Paper Abstract: This study shows that the district level outcomes in the 2012 parliamentary elections in Georgia are significantly associated with the mean household deprivation levels. This effect is statistically significant after ...
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    Title: Carbon Price as Renewable Energy Support? Empirical analysis on wind power in Denmark  Author(s): GAVARD, Claire Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Empirical analysis on wind energy in Denmark is used to quantify the impact of the various support policies in place in the last decade and infer the carbon price that would lead to the same level of deployment under the ...
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    Title: Air Traffic Management in the Single European Sky: Standardisation of safety and liability issues  Author(s): SIMONCINI, Marta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the European system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a specific case study of risk regulation in the framework of the European integration process. At the present, the implementation of the ...
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    Title: The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state  Author(s): MORATTI, Sofia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
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    Title: Egypt in 2011: A regime that no longer knows how to adapt? Fluid conjunctures and regime transformations in perspective  Author(s): COLLOMBIER, Virginie Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The popular uprising that took place in Egypt in January and February 2011 may eventually lead to regime change. Whatever the end result of the ongoing process, however, the theories of authoritarian consolidation – which ...
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    Title: Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-country comparisons and a within-country study of Kenya  Author(s): ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun; SENBET, Lemma; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We ...
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    Title: Post-liberal Regionalism in South America: The case of UNASUR  Author(s): SANAHUJA, José Antonio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper examines the formal features, the political rationale, distinctiveness, potential, and difficulties of post-liberal regionalism, with a particular focus on the case of UNASUR. Through this organization, traditional ...
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    Title: Analysis of the Strategic Use of Forward Contracting in Electricity Markets  Author(s): VAZQUEZ, Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Absence of arbitrage is one of the fundamental tools to describe financial markets. The no-arbitrage price of any financial contract represents players’ valuation of the uncertain future income stream that will result from ...
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    Title: Financial Intermediation, Markets, and Alternative Financial Sectors  Author(s): ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We provide a comprehensive review of firms’ financing channels (internal and external, domestic and international) around the globe, with the focus on alternative finance—financing from all the nonmarket, non-bank external ...
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    Title: Deconstructing EU Federalism through Competences  Author(s): AZOULAI, Loic; BOUCON, Lena; ENGEL, Annegret; KOCHAROV, Anna; MANN, Dennis-Jonathan; MILLET, François-Xavier; ÖBERG, Jacob; AZOULAI, Loic; BOUCON, Lena; MILLET, François-Xavier Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper is a collective endeavour to depart from the traditional view that a clear-cut separation of powers between the European Union and its Member States is one of the main features and one of the main safeguards of ...
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    Title: Being Close to Grow Faster: A network-based empirical analysis of economic globalization  Author(s): DUERNECKER, Georg; MEYER, Moritz; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Globalization features one of the major global trends which shape economic outcomes in developing and developed countries. Standard results from the empirical growth literature suggest that participation in worldwide trade ...