Title:'Integration-through-Law.' Contribution to a Socio-history of EU Political Commonsense
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article tracks the genesis of one of the EU's most established meta-narratives, that of Europeanization-through-case-law. Instead of studying this theory of European integration as an explanatory frame, I consider it ...
Title:Intellectual Property, innovation and the governance of the internet
Author(s):LEVINE, David K.Date:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:I discuss both the causes and consequences of the Internet being squeezed by copyright proponents. The striking fact is that while this squeeze has a broad and negative impact on society broadly, it brings very little ...
Title:The interaction between emissions trading and energy and competition policies
Author(s):GULLÌ, FrancescoDate:2011-03-31Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Emissions trading is a “cap and trade” regulation aimed at reducing the cost of meeting environmental
targets. This paper studies how this regulation interacts with energy and competition policies. Two
vertically related ...
Title:Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a simple model of the interbank market where banks trade a long term, safe asset. We show that when there is a lack of opportunities for banks to hedge aggregate and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks, the interbank ...
Title:Interest Groups, Government Spending and Italian Industrial Growth (1876-1913)
Author(s):FIORINO, Nadia; RICCIUTI, RobertoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the last two decades of the XIX century the Italian model of economic growth shifted from agricultural to industrial. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued ...
Title:The Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Education: A Comparison of Japan and France
Author(s):LEFRANC, Arnaud; OJIMA, Fumiaki; YOSHIDA, TakashiDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper compares the extent of intergenerational earnings and educational correlation in Japan and France. It uses very similar repeated surveys that provide information on educational attainment and family background, ...
Title:International Cooperation and Environmental Security: The Worldview of Joseph Borg
Author(s):COUTTO, TatianaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article focuses on the worldview of Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Joseph Borg, former Maltese diplomat and legal practitioner whose career includes a brief incursion into academia and the holding of ...
Title:The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPRAbstract:This paper investigates the international dimension of productivity and demand shocks to US manufacturing. Identifying shocks with sign restrictions based on standard theory predictions we find that productivity gains in ...
Title:International Elections Experts, Monitors, and Representations in the Arab World
Author(s):CARAPICO, SheilaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Elections are sites of festivity, celebrity, and sometimes dramatic suspense, unique occasions for the simultaneous nationwide engagement of candidates, campaign volunteers, poll-workers, voters, and even abstainers and ...
Title:International Financial Integration of South-Mediterranean Economies: A bird's-eye view
Author(s):PEETERS, Marga; SABRI, Nidal R.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Should South-Mediterranean economies continue their financial integration in the world economy, considering their current stance and in view of the experiences of developed economies with the global financial crisis? The ...