Title:Quantitative analysis of energy markets
Author(s):GIANFREDA, Angelica; GROSSI, LuigiDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:The papers included in this special issue have been selected among those independently submitted and those presented at the International Workshop QAoEM “Quantitative Analysis of Energy Markets” held in Verona (Italy) in ...
Title:Network analysis to detect common strategies in the Italian foreign direct investment
Author(s):DE MASI, Giulia; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; RICCHIUTI, GiorgioDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we reconstruct and discuss the network of Italian firms investing abroad, exploiting information from complex network analysis. This method, detecting the key nodes of the system (both in terms of firms and ...
Title:Location, internationalization and performance of firms in Italy : a multilevel approach
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; RICCHIUTI, Giorgio; VELUCCHI, MargheritaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Competition is increasingly global. However, location still matters: often firms cluster in the same geographic areas in order to exploit locational externalities and improve their competitiveness. This article analyses ...
Title:Embedded Bilateralism : Deutsch-französische Beziehungen in der europäischen Politik
Author(s):KROTZ, Ulrich; SCHILD, JoachimDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Die zentrale Rolle Deutschlands und Frankreichs in der Geschichte der europäischen Integration und in der Politik der Europäischen Union (EU) ist längst zur Binsenweisheit geworden. Passend dazu hat der politische, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Title:Zehn Jahre Flugsicherungsreform: Reformstau oder Kompetenzgerangel am Europäischen Himmel?
Author(s):BAUMGARTNER, Marc; FINGER, MatthiasDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Die Europäische Kommission hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren schrittweise als zentraler Akteur in der europäischen Flugsicherung etabliert. Mit der Schaffung eines einheitlichen europäischen Luftraumes, des Single ...
Title:The EMU’s legitimacy and the ECB as a strategic political player in the crisis context
Author(s):TORRES, Francisco S.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The sovereign debt crisis made it clear that, to be sustainable and serve its initial purpose (notably price stability), EMU would require enhanced policy coordination, increased sovereignty- and risk-sharing and further ...
Title:Crossing the border : self selection, earnings and international migration decisions
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, FrancescoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze an international migration episode for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic ...
Title:Challenges and opportunities of online collective action for policy change
Author(s):CALDERARO, Andrea; KAVADA, AnastasiaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Internet has multiplied the platforms available to influence public opinion and policymaking. It has also provided citizens with a greater capacity for coordination and mobilization, which can strengthen their voice ...
Title:Institutional Change in Europe: Co-decision and comitology transformed
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explains how institutional rules change after they have been established in two important areas of European decision-making: co-decision and comitology. It shows how legislation under co-decision was transformed ...
Title:Building Gas Markets: US versus EU, market versus market model
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:The liberalization process of the gas sector has showed that the reasoning to introduce competition in gas industries separates the services in at least two groups: commodities with relatively low transaction costs, and ...
Title:Product Replacement Bias in Inflation and its Consequences for Monetary Policy
Author(s):WEBER, HenningDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper examines a New Keynesian model with product entry and exit and with two types of households. Households consume different product baskets, and therefore, face different inflation rates. The statistical bureau ...
Title:Deeper and Wider than a Common Space: European Union–Russia cooperation on migration management
Author(s):KORNEEV, OlegDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Works that address European Union (EU)-Russia cooperation within the overarching project of the common space of freedom, security and justice (FSJ) often look at this ‘space’ as if it were regarded by both parties as a ...
Title:On the Selection of Financing Instruments to Push the Development of New Technologies: Application to clean energy technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RUESTER, Sophia; LIONG, Siok-JenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Achieving climate policy goals requires mobilizing public funds to bring still immature clean technologies to competitiveness and create new technological options. The format of direct public support must be tailored to ...
Title:Differentiated Integration Revisited: EU energy policy as experimental ground for a Schengen successor?
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; DE HAUTECLOCQUE, Adrien; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:For the EU-27 the accommodation of national diversity and conflicting preferences with regard to the pace and scope of the development of the EU energy policy remains a major problem. The resulting institutional paralysis, ...
Title:The Transformation of the Arab World
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Something irreversible happened in the Arab Spring. Whatever ups and downs may follow, we are witnessing the beginning of a process by which democratization is becoming rooted in Arab societies.The article explores the ...
