Title:Ex Ante Regulation and Co-Investment in the Transition to Next Generation Access
Author(s):BOURREAU, Marc; CAMBINI, Carlo; HOERNIG, SteffenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Investments in Next Generation Access Networks (NGANs) ask for a new set of regulatory remedies. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing on three issues: the migration from the legacy copper network to the NGA ...
Title:Exchange Market Pressure: Some Caveats in Empirical Applications
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; GALLO, Giampiero M.; RICCHIUTI, GiorgioDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Exchange Market Pressure (EMP) index, developed by Eichengreen et al. (1994), is widely used as a tool to signal whether pressure on a currency is softened or warded off through monetary authorities' interventions or, ...
Title:Exclusion Through Speculation
Author(s):ARGENTON, Cédric; WILLEMS, BertDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Many commodities are traded on both a spot market and a derivative market. We show that an incumbent producer may use purely financial derivatives to extract rent from a potential entrant. It can do so by selling derivatives ...
Title:Existe-t-il une discrimination religieuse en France
Author(s):AMIRAUX, ValerieDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:9/11 has affected in ambiguous ways the public perceptions and representations of Muslims and Islam in European Union member-states. A double dynamics started. On the one hand, it created new space for public discussions ...
Title:Exogenous Pressures and Social Policy: Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective
Author(s):TSAROUHAS, Dimitris; BOLUKBASI, H. TolgaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper looks at contemporary social policy developments in Greece and Turkey in light of exogenous economic pressures in the period 1980s-2000s. Three sources of exogenous pressures, which allegedly lead to a reduction ...
Title:Experience with electricity market test suite : students versus computational agents
Author(s):TRINH, Quynh Chi; SAGUAN, Marcelo; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:This paper applies two experimental economics methods (i.e., agent-based modeling and laboratory experiment) to a market test suite that is based on a fictional European wholesale electricity market. Quantitative results ...