Title:Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IMF working paper
Title:Fiscal Stimulus with spending reversals
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPR discussion paperAbstract:The impact of fiscal stimulus depends not only on short-term tax and spending policies, but also on expectations about offsetting measures in the future. This paper analyzes the effects of an increase in government spending ...
Title:Flexible Global Carbon Pricing: A Backward-Compatible Upgrade for the Kyoto Protocol
Author(s):STOFT, StevenDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The Kyoto Protocol’s approach of assigning emission targets, or “caps,” promises certainty that it cannot deliver, because it exacerbates problems with international cooperation and commitment. Global carbon pricing addresses ...
Title:Flying Tiger: International Relations theory and the politics of advanced weapons
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode—the joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger Helicopter (used in the James Bond film Goldeneye, incidentally)—to ...
Title:For a few cents less'? Nested games in German broadcasting regulation
Author(s):MEIER, Henk ErikDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the fact that the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) has always tried to strengthen the political independence and autonomy of public service broadcasting (PSB), German media regulation has witnessed an extended ...
Title:For a few Cents less? Nested games in German broadcasting regulation
Author(s):MEIER, Henk ErikDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the fact that the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) has always tried to strengthen the political independence and autonomy of public service broadcasting (PSB), German media regulation has witnessed an extended ...
Title:The Force of a Weak Field. Law and Lawyers in the Government of Europe
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The idiom of exception is again central to the politics of insecurity in Europe, the United States, and Australia. One of the key characteristics of the jargon of exception is its suppression of political renditions of the ...
Title:Forced Migration of Syrians to Jordan: An exploratory study
Author(s):OLWAN, Mohamed Y.; SHIYAB, AhmadDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Migration Policy Centre Research ReportAbstract:The study attempts to identify the economic, social and legal conditions of Syrian refugees residing in Jordan, subsequent to the events of March 2011 in Syria. The study sample consists of 105 interviews, which were ...
Title:Forecasting EU-Romania Trade by Gravity Analysis
Author(s):FERRANGINA, Ana; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; PASTORE, FrancescoDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper attempts to forecast the EU-Romania trade using the gravity approach developed in Ferragina, Giovannetti and Pastore (2005). The trade potential of Romania with five EU members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and ...
Title:Forecasting Italian Electricity Zonal Prices with Exogenous Variables
Author(s):GIANFREDA, Angelica; GROSSI, LuigiDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:In the last few years we have observed the deregulation in electricity markets and an increasing interest in price dynamics has been developed especially to consider all stylized facts shown by spot prices. Only few papers ...
Title:Forecasting with Factor-augmented Error Correction Models
Author(s):MASTEN, Igor; BANERJEE, Anindya; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As a generalization of the factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) and of the Error Correction Model (ECM), Banerjee and Marcellino (2009) introduced the Factor-augmented Error Correction Model (FECM). The FECM combines error-correction, ...
Title:Forum "Convergence in the EU"
Author(s):HEFEKER, Carsten; TORRES, Francisco S.; BONGARDT, Annette; WUNSCH, Pierre; HERMANN, ChristophDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The EU has long viewed economic and institutional convergence as important goals, but the results thus far have been decidedly mixed, and there remain several open questions: How exactly should convergence be defined? How ...