Title:Can Stabilization Policies Be Efficient?
Author(s):SAIDI, AurélienDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper makes use of optimal control relaxed problems to prove the absence of optimal trajectory in continuous time models with social increasing returns to scale where indeterminacy occurs. Although an efficient optimal ...
Title:Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions
Author(s):AREZKI, Rabah; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We criticise existing empirical results on the detrimental effects of natural resource
dependence on the rate of economic growth after controlling for institutional quality,
openness and initial income. These results do ...
Title:Can the Threat of Costly Litigation be Incentive Enough for Companies to Engage in CSR?
Author(s):TZAVARA, DionisiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In 1970 Milton Friedman wrote “[t]he social responsibility of business is to increase profits” (p. 122). Today there are voices advocating that engaging in CSR is in the direction of increasing profits. It is also argued ...
Title:The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots
Author(s):LAUKYTE, MigleDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
Title:Capacity to Compete: Recent Trends in Access Regimes in Electricity and Natural Gas Networks
Author(s):DE HAUTECLOCQUE, Adrien; TALUS, KimDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Ensuring access to a truly ‘European’ energy grid for every consumer and supplier in the European
Union is a core objective of the single market project. From the first wave of liberalization directives
up until the ...
Title:Carbon Price as Renewable Energy Support? Empirical analysis on wind power in Denmark
Author(s):GAVARD, ClaireDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract: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 ...
Title:The Career Costs of Children
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; DUSTMANN, Christian; STEVENS, KatrienDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more ...
Title:Cartography and Production of Space: a Challenge for the Historian
Author(s):PANSINI, ValeriaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Cartographic sources have been used to support the role of “imagination” and “invention” in the production of spaces and locality. Their role as instruments of power and producers of order has been underlined inside the ...
Title:Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Author(s):BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, KjetilDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the ...