Title:Exclusion Through Speculation
Author(s):ARGENTON, Cédric; WILLEMS, BertDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Many commodities are traded on both a spot market and a derivative market. We show that an incumbent producer may use purely financial derivatives to extract rent from a potential entrant. It can do so by selling derivatives ...
Title:Exogenous Pressures and Social Policy: Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective
Author(s):TSAROUHAS, Dimitris; BOLUKBASI, H. TolgaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper looks at contemporary social policy developments in Greece and Turkey in light of exogenous economic pressures in the period 1980s-2000s. Three sources of exogenous pressures, which allegedly lead to a reduction ...
Title:Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
Author(s):CLIFTON, Judith; DIAZ-FUENTES, Daniel; REVUELTA LOPEZ, JulioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:One consequence of the liberalization of certain services in the European Union was that a number of
formerly inward-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed
themselves into some of ...
Title:Extending Health Insurance: Effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Author(s):BRUGIAVINI, Agar; PACE, NoemiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:There is considerable interest in exploring the potential of health insurance to increase the access to, and the affordability of, health care in Africa. We focus on the recent experience of Ghana, where a National Health ...
Title:The Fabric of International Jurisprudence: An interdisciplinary encounter
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; SOLANKE, Iyiola; DALLARA, Cristina; PETKOVA, Bilyana; PORTA, Jérome; VAN BOCKEL, BasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Bringing together a variety of outlooks from comparative law, legal theory, organizational sociology, socio-legal studies or political science, this Joint Working Papers explores the cognitive equipment through which ...
Title:Factors that Influence the Targets and Criteria for Electricity Interconnector Investments
Author(s):SUPPONEN, MattiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analysis various factors that influence electricity interconnector investments. It shows that several features linked to zonal market design, in particular the possibility to favour market participants in the ...
Title:Fairness in Risky Environments: Theory and evidence
Author(s):BABICKÝ, Vitezslav; ORTMANN, Andreas; VAN KOTEN, SilvesterDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CERGE-EI Working PaperAbstract:Theories of fairness have typically used the assumption of ex-ante known pie size. Pie size, however, is rarely known ex ante. Using three simple allocation problems generally known as dictator, ultimatum and trust games, ...
Title:Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan
Author(s):OJIMA, Fumiaki; VON BELOW, SusanneDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper investigates why the effect of family background on student’s educational achievement is so different in Germany and in Japan in spite of their similarity over a huge variance of student performance scores in ...
Title:The Family Rights of European Children: Expulsion of non-European parents
Author(s):DAVIES, Gareth T.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In Ruiz Zambrano and Dereci the Court found that the Treaty prohibits expulsion of a family member of a Union citizen if that expulsion would force the Union citizen to leave the Union too. This is of particular importance ...
Title:Festivalising Difference: Privatisation of Culture and Symbolic Exclusion in Istanbul
Author(s):YARDIMCI, SibelDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Material equality is necessary but not sufficient for social integration within the city. Cultural
recognition is equally important in assuring comprehensive participation of marginal groups. The issue
is complicated in ...
Title:Final Instance: World Trade Organization - Unilateral Trade Measures in EU Climate Change Legislation
Author(s):AHNER, NicoleDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Can the European Union (EU) introduce trade restrictive border measures under the auspices of environmental protection, whose purpose is at least inter alia to ‘level the competitive playing field’ for the European ...