Title:International Cooperation and Environmental Security: The Worldview of Joseph Borg
Author(s):COUTTO, TatianaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article focuses on the worldview of Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Joseph Borg, former Maltese diplomat and legal practitioner whose career includes a brief incursion into academia and the holding of ...
Title:The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPRAbstract:This paper investigates the international dimension of productivity and demand shocks to US manufacturing. Identifying shocks with sign restrictions based on standard theory predictions we find that productivity gains in ...
Title:International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; PESENTI, PaoloDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides a baseline general equilibrium model of optimal monetary policy among interdependent economies with monopolistic firms and nominal rigidities. An inward-looking policy of domestic price stabilization ...
Title:International Elections Experts, Monitors, and Representations in the Arab World
Author(s):CARAPICO, SheilaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Elections are sites of festivity, celebrity, and sometimes dramatic suspense, unique occasions for the simultaneous nationwide engagement of candidates, campaign volunteers, poll-workers, voters, and even abstainers and ...
Title:International Financial Integration of South-Mediterranean Economies: A bird's-eye view
Author(s):PEETERS, Marga; SABRI, Nidal R.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Should South-Mediterranean economies continue their financial integration in the world economy, considering their current stance and in view of the experiences of developed economies with the global financial crisis? The ...
Title:International Handbook of Network Industries: The liberalisation of infrastructure
Author(s):FINGER, Matthias; KÜNNEKE, Rolf W.Date:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater ...
Title:International Law and European Nationality Laws
Author(s):PILGRAM, LisaDate:2011-03Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUDO Citizenship ObservatoryAbstract:This paper on international law and European nationality laws is based on the findings from country reports produced within the framework of the EUDO Citizenship Observatory as well as further correspondence with country ...
Title:International Lending of Last Resort and Moral Hazard: A Model of IMF’s Catalytic Finance
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; GUIMARAES, Bernardo; ROUBINI, NourielDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyzes the trade-off between official liquidity provision and debtor moral hazard in international financial crises. In the model, crises are caused by the interaction of bad fundamentals, self-fulfilling runs ...
Title:International Migration and Europe’s Demographic Challenge
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2011-06-01Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EU-US Immigration SystemsAbstract:Demography challenges Europe in three ways: 1) Europe’s size: while the population of Europe will decrease or stabilise, depending upon migration scenarios, most other regions will continue to increase so that the relative ...
Title:International Migration and State Sovereignty in an Integrating Europe
Author(s):GEDDES, AndrewDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the development of migration policy competencies of the European Union (EU) since the 1990s. It pays particular attention to pot icy framework that developed after the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties ...