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 ...
Title:The Institutional Design of European Competition Policy
Author(s):MANGANELLI, Antonio; NICITA, Antonio; ROSSI, Maria AlessandraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyzes the institutional design of the European competition policy system. Besides the
multi-level public enforcement, the paper describes other two fundamental dimensions of the
European competition policy ...
Title:The Institutional Economics of Reflexive Governance in the Area of Utility Regulation
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Regulation of utilities in the XXI Century is challenged by the fast pace of change notably the
acceleration of innovation, the restructuring of industry as sets of modular chains and the spreading of
new information and ...