Title:Market behaviour with large amounts of intermittent generation
Author(s):GREEN, Richard; VASILAKOS, NicholasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper evaluates the impact of intermittent wind generation on hourly equilibrium prices and output, using data on expected wind generation capacity and demand for 2020. Hourly wind data for the period 1994-2005 are ...
Title:Market Design with Wind: Managing low-predictability in intraday markets
Author(s):HENRIOT, ArthurDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper evaluates the benefits for wind power producers to trade in the intraday electricity markets in a context of massive penetration of intermittent renewables. Using a simple analytical model we find out that there ...
Title:Mass Media and Contested Meanings: EU Constitutional Politics after Popular Rejection
Author(s):LIEBERT, Ulrike; TRENZ, Hans-JörgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper applies a normative democratic perspective on European constitutional politics to the analysis of discursive practices related to the crisis of the "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" (TCE), in the ...
Title:Measuring Media Plurality in the United Kingdom: Policy choices and regulatory challenges
Author(s):CRAUFURD SMITH, Rachael; TAMBINI, Damian AngeloDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article considers the rationales for, and techniques used to promote, media pluralism. It examines why structural regulation is so controversial, with specific reference to the uncertainties surrounding cause and ...
Title:Merchant interconnector projects by generators in the EU: Effects on profitability and allocation of capacity
Author(s):VAN KOTEN, SilvesterDate:2011-02-25Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:When building a cross-border transmission line (a so-called interconnector) as a for-profit (merchant)
project, where the regulator has required that capacity allocation be done non-discriminatorily by
explicit auction, ...
Title:Mevrouw de Jong Gaat Eten: EU Citizenship and the Culture of Prejudice
Author(s):KOCHENOV, DimitryDate:2011-02-21Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This essay discusses the dubious premises of ‘repressive liberalism’ underlying the policies of cultural
‘integration’ that have been adopted by a number of otherwise liberal democracies around the world.
The author uses ...
Title:Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Author(s):MARCHETTA, FrancescaDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The return of temporary migrants represents a key channel through which migration exerts an
economic influence upon origin countries. The literature has shown that returnees tend to opt for
entrepreneurial activities and ...
Title:Military Class and Perpetual State Control in Turkey
Author(s):KARABELIAS, GerassimosDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Although Turkey has, for more than eighty years, given the impression of a Middle Eastern country eager to apply liberal western institutional structures into its own political life and even join the European Union, it has ...