Title:Minorities and Networking: The Way to Entrepreneurial Success
Author(s):ABDULHAQ-EFFENBERG, NajatDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The entrepreneurs of the Jewish and Greek minorities successfully dominated a significant portion of
the economic activities in Egypt, 1860-1960.
The tide of events in the mid twentieth century Middle East, especially ...
Title:Mirage or Reality: Post-National Turkey and its Implication for Immigration
Author(s):KIRIŞCI, KemalDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:This research paper aims to explore to what extent Turkey has overcome its resistance to recognizing the multicultural reality of Turkish society, and whether the state in Turkey is indeed becoming multicultural and ...
Title:Mixed Migrant Ties Social Networks and Social Capital in Migration Research
Author(s):MOROSANU, LauraDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:Abstract
Social network and social capital theories have gained substantial ground in migration research in recent years. While existing scholarship documents a vast array of resources, and indeed constraints, generated ...
Title:The Mobile Broadband and Fixed Broadband Battle in Swedish Market: Complementary or substitution?
Author(s):SRINUAN, Pratompong; SRINUAN, Chalita; BOHLIN, ErikDate:2011-06-26Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper aims to investigate the current broadband situation in Swedish market, in particular
whether the mobile broadband (MBB) is a complementary or substitute service to fixed broadband
(FBB) by using multinomial ...
Title:Mobile Phones and the Rise of Neo-Liberal Consumer Subjectivity in Palestine
Author(s):JUNKA-AIKIO, LauraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Despite the abundance of research on Palestine, studies of Palestinian political subjectivity and agency
tend to adhere to the dominant analytical frames of Nationalism and/or Islamism. This has led to the
neglect of a ...
Title:Mobility from India to Selected European Countries: The case of Germany and France
Author(s):MUKHERJEE, Shahana; CHANDA, RupaDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Migration Policy CentreAbstract:The development of European policies on higher education in the last two decades has facilitated and encouraged (inward) non-European student mobility. This paper examines the issue of student mobility between two European ...
Title:Mobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticks
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; DELARUE, ErikDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the transition towards a decarbonized energy system, we need city authorities to lead by example as
public actors, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive
and manage ...
Title:Modeling the Cost of Achieving a Renewable Energy Target: Does it Pay to Cooperate Across Borders?
Author(s):SAGUAN, Marcelo; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011-09-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Electricity markets are increasingly integrated across borders, but transmission and renewable energy
policies often remain local and uncoordinated. In this paper, we analyze how cooperative behavior in
developing renewable ...
Title:Modelling the effects of nuclear fuel reservoir operation in a competitive electricity market
Author(s):LYKIDI, Maria; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; GOURDEL, PascalDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In many countries, the electricity systems are quitting the vertically integrated monopoly
organization for an operation framed by competitive markets. In such a competitive regime one
can ask what the optimal management ...
Title:A Modern Reconsideration of the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:What can be learnt from revisiting the Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) theory 50
years from its birth, in light of recent advances in open economy macro and monetary
theory? This paper presents a stylized micro-founded model ...
Title:A modern reconsideration of the theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can be learnt from revisiting the Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) theory 50 years from its birth, in light of recent advances in open economy macro and monetary theory? This paper presents a stylized micro-founded model ...