Title:Coping with Insecurity in Fragile Situations
Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, we explore the security dimension of development in fragile situations, and address how the EU can better focus on the security dimension of its policies to-wards countries facing fragility. We stress ...
Title:Corruption and Parties in Portugal
Author(s):MACEDO PINTO DE SOUSA, Luis ManuelDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:The cost of abating CO2 emissions by renewable energy incentives in Germany
Author(s):MARCANTONINI, Claudio; ELLERMAN, A. DennyDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Incentives for the development of renewable energy have increasingly become an instrument of climate policy, that is, as a means to reduce GHG emissions. This research analyzes the German experience in promoting renewable ...
Title:Creating Hindusthan: Religion and Violence in Hindu-nationalist Mobilisation
Author(s):ECKERT, JuliaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Communal group conflicts and religiously inspired violence have frequently been looked upon as reactions to experiences of alienation, states of anomy, relative deprivation. Communal violence in India has been interpreted ...
Title:The Creation of a Market for Retail Electricity Supply
Author(s):LITTLECHILD, StephenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In September 1989, as part of its privatization program, the Government laid down an eight year
timetable for opening up to retail competition the entire electricity market of England and Wales,
phased over the period ...
Title:Credit Market Competition and Capital Regulation
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:It is commonly believed that equity finance for banks is more costly than deposits. This suggests that banks should economize on the use of equity and regulatory constraints on capital should be binding. Empirical evidence ...
Title:Crime and the UK Economy
Author(s):OSBORN, Denise R.Date:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:Crisis and trust in national and European Union institutions : panel evidence for the EU, 1999 to 2012
Author(s):ROTH, Felix; NOWAK-LEHMANN D., Felicitas; OTTER, ThomasDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyses the effects of the crisis on trust in national and European Union institutions within an EU27 country sample from 1999 to 2012. The paper finds that the overall negative trends in trust throughout the ...
Title:The Crisis of the Eurozone
Author(s):BOHLE, DorotheeDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:An important tension had been underlying the first decade of the European Monetary Union. On the one hand, governments had embraced a revolutionary prospect when designing its institutions. They called on market forces and ...
Title:Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Investments
Author(s):SUPPONEN, MattiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The objective of this paper is to analyse what targets and criteria should be followed for electricity transmission investments which would be beneficial for Europe. The paper indicates that there is serious underinvestment ...
Title:CSR as a signal to inform collective action
Author(s):TZAVARA, DionisiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Collective action in the form of a boycott or a campaign or any other threat that affects the operations
of a firm is considered an instrument in the hands of organizations and consumers to control firm
behaviour and to ...