Title:A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)
Author(s):LEVMORE, SaulDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
Title:Public debates on integration and immigration in six West European countries
Author(s):HELBLING, MarcDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:By analyzing public debates on integration and immigration and issues this paper investigates to what
extent citizenship models can be considered a broader societal phenomenon. Do these models exist
beyond legal regulations? ...
Title:Public Spending Interactions and Local Politics. Empirical Evidence From French Municipalities
Author(s):FOUCAULT, Martial; MADIES, Thierry; PATY, SoniaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper aims at testing whether there exist spending interactions between French municipalities by estimating a dynamic panel data model. Our results suggest that there are some interactions between neighbouring ...
Title:Public Support for the Financing of RD&D Activities in New Clean Energy Technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RUESTER, Sophia; LIONG, Siok Jen; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Florence School of RegulationAbstract:Substantial investments in RD&D in new low-carbon technologies are required to reach the EU climate objectives. Given existing market failures affecting clean innovation, developing a balanced portfolio of existing and new ...
Title:Public Support for the Financing of RD&D Activities in New Clean Energy Technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RÜSTER, Sophie; LIONG, Siok Jen; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Several market failures, as well as other technical, economic and regulatory barriers to the market
penetration of clean energy technologies result in under-investment of private innovators in RD&D.
Therefore, public ...
Title:Public Support to Low-Carbon Innovation: Grants for all?
Author(s):RUESTER, Sophia; OLMOS, LuisDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:Sophia Ruester and Luis Olmos focus on research, development and demonstration activities that belong to the early, highly risky stages of innovation and, thus, need direct public support.
Title:Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge
Author(s):TÓKA, Gábor; POPESCU, MarinaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines cross-national variance in the impact of public and commercial television on
citizens’ political knowledge level and whether and how that variance may be related to differences in
the content of public ...
Title:Public v. Private Enforcement in the Electronic Communications Sector
Author(s):STOYANOVA, MilenaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 2002 Common Regulatory Framework diversifies remedies to competition problems according to the market strength of telecoms providers. One set of remedies is particularly targeted at posing constraints on (pre-)existing ...
Title:Public v. Private Enforcement in the Electronic Communications Sector
Author(s):STOYANOVA, MilenaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The 2002 Common Regulatory Framework diversifies remedies to competition problems according to the market strength of telecoms providers. One set of remedies is particularly targeted at posing constraints on (pre-)existing ...
Title:Putting All One's Eggs in One Basket: Relational Contracts and the Provision of Local Public Services
Author(s):DESRIEUX, Claudine; CHONG, Eshien; SAUSSIER, StéphaneDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The provision of local public services is increasingly being contracted out to private companies. We observe that local governments regularly choose the same private operator for a range of different services, and develop ...
Title:Qualitative Research in Migration Studies
Author(s):DÜVELL, FranckDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Migration Policy CentreAbstract:Remittances flowing from Ukrainian migrants working in high-income countries to Ukraine are an increasingly important source of extra income for migrants’ families. Given the increasing size of aggregate remittance inflows, ...