Title:Herding in a Shifting Mediterranean Changing agro-pastoral livelihoods in the Mashreq & Maghreb region
Author(s):NORI, Michele; EL MOURID, Mohamed; GIORGI, Pamela; NEFZAOUI, AliDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Pastoralism is a characteristic livelihood system for the whole Mediterranean basin. From Morocco to Turkey, from Sardinia to Libya, herding societies are a common feature of all countries and civilisations that have ...
Title:How Can the ECB be Credible?
Author(s):BINI SMAGHI, LorenzoDate:1996Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market
Author(s):MCRAE, Shaun D.; WOLAK, Frank A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper uses the framework in Wolak (2003a,b and 2007) and data on half-hourly offer curves and market-clearing prices and quantities from the New Zealand wholesale electricity market over the period January 1, 2001 to ...
Title:How Illiberal are Citizenship Rules in European Union Countries?
Author(s):DUMBRAVA, CosticaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper proposes an assessment of citizenship rules in European Union countries. First, it designs an
analytical framework in order to evaluate the rules of political membership from a liberal-democratic
perspective. ...
Title:How Liberal are Citizenship Tests?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:A significant number of –mostly Western European– countries have recently newly introduced
citizenship tests or have added stricter requirements of civic knowledge to previously existing
language tests. This working paper ...
Title:How the European Union is preparing the "Third Industrial Revolution" with an innovative energy policy
Author(s):PIEBALGS, AndrisDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is clear that we are at the beginning of what has correctly been called the "third industrial revolution" - the rapid development of an entirely new energy system. We can expect a massive shift towards a carbon-free ...
Title:How to rationalize the debate about 'EU Energy Third Package'? Revisiting criteria to compare electricity transmission organizations
Author(s):LÉVÊQUE, François; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; SAGUAN, Marcelo; DE MUIZON, GildasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article develops a theoretical framework to rank different electricity transmission organizations according five criteria (transaction cost saving, performance based regulation implementation, conflicts of interest, ...