Title:Implicit Auctioning on the Kontek Cable: Third Time Lucky?
Author(s):MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Cross-border capacities in Europe are currently inefficiently used. Implicit auctioning is about
eliminating these cross-border trade inefficiencies by internalizing the arbitrage into the auction
procedures of the Power ...
Title:Incentive Regulation and Network Innovations
Author(s):BAUKNECHT, DierkDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Smart Grids require innovations in the electricity networks, mainly on the level of the distributed
system operator (DSO). A main objective is to increase the share of distributed generation (DG)
connected to that network ...
Title:Independence, Investment and Political Interference: Evidence from the European Union
Author(s):CAMBINI, Carlo; RONDI, LauraDate:2011-07-07Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines the implications of “modern” regulatory governance - i.e. the inception of
Independent Regulatory Authorities (IRAs) - for the investment decisions of a large sample of EU
publicly traded regulated ...
Title:Industry Compensation under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level analysis of the EU emissions trading scheme
Author(s):MARTIN, Ralf; MUULS, Mirabelle; DE PREUX, Laure B.; WAGNER, Ulrich J.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:When industry compensation is offered to prevent relocation of regulated firms, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage ...
Title:The Influence of Educational Segregation on Educational Achievement
Author(s):ROBERT, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper investigates the impact of homogeneous vs. heterogeneous grouping of students with respect to their social origin on the differences in educational achievement. There are two competing hypotheses in this respect: ...
Title:The Influence of Shale Gas on U.S. Energy and Environmental Policy
Author(s):JACOBY, Henry D.; O'SULLIVAN, Francis M.; PALTSEV, SergeyDate:2011-10-06Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The emergence of U.S. shale gas resources to economic viability affects the nation’s energy outlook
and the expected role of natural gas in climate policy. Even in the face of the current shale gas boom,
however, questions ...
Title:Innovative Features in Conditional Cash Transfers: The impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children
Author(s):MARTORANO, Bruno; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:UNICEF Innocenti Working PaperAbstract:Social protection represents an important tool to mitigate poverty and to promote adequate living standards and conditions. In Latin America social protection has largely taken the form of large scale implementation of ...
Title:Institution [Un]Building: Decentralising Government and the Case of Rwanda
Author(s):MCCONNELL, JesseDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The challenge of institution building in African countries remains a major threat to the establishment
of peace and justice, and the entrenchment of sustainable social and economic development. This may
be attributed ...
Title:Institutional Change in Advanced European Democracies: An exploratory assessment
Author(s):BEDOCK, Camille; MAIR, Peter; WILSON, AlexDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Recent decades have seen a wave of institutional changes of the core democratic rules in advanced democracies. These changes include reforms of electoral systems; decentralization of power to subnational governments; the ...
Title:Institutional Corruptions
Author(s):LESSIG, LawrenceDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The concept of "institutional corruption" as developed by Professor Dennis Thompson is a critically important way to understand the failings of a modern democratic state. In this paper, Professor Lessig advances one way ...