Title:Partial Regulation in Vertically Differentiated Industries
Author(s):BERGANTINO, Angela S.; BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR, Etienne; VINELLA, AnnalisaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IDEI Working PaperAbstract:In this paper we provide theoretical foundations for a price-and-quality cap regulation of recently liberalized utilities. We model a partially regulated oligopoly where vertically differentiated services are provided by ...
Title:Partisan Liberalizations. A New Puzzle from OECD Network Industries?
Author(s):BELLOC, Filippo; NICITA, AntonioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We investigate the political determinants of liberalization in OECD network industries, performing a
panel estimation over thirty years, through the largest and most updated sample available. Contrary to
traditional ...
Title:Partition of Palestine and Political Stability: Ottoman Legacy and International Influences (1922 – 1948)
Author(s):ROSSI, ChristianDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Political stability in the Middle East seems an illusion, particularly in Palestine. This paper compares
three variables (religious, political and international interests) that, through a four-period partition (the
fall ...
Title:Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices
Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is based on the concluding chapter of a forthcoming volume reporting the results of a
research project that has investigated the principles and practices of party patronage in contemporary
European democracies ...
Title:The Perception of the EU as an Emerging Security Actor in Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2006)
Author(s):KANTNER, Cathleen; KUTTER, Amelie; RENFORDT, SwantjeDate:2008-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:RECON Online Working PaperAbstract:Next to states and established international organisations, the European Union is emerging as an actor in the realm of international conflict management. Has the media in the EU Member States reflected this change? Our ...
Title:Performance Informed Budgeting in Europe: The Ends Justify the Means, Don't They?
Author(s):VAN NISPEN, Frans; POSSETH, JohanDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The last few decades a revival of the performance budgeting generating a complete performance industry. Initiated by the Anglo-Saxon countries, notably New Zealand, the performance movement is widespread today. In this ...
Title:Personalization and the Future of News
Author(s):HINDMAN, MatthewDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Over the past two decades, much scholarship has theorized about how highly personalized news media might change the public sphere. But even as algorithmic content filtering has become widespread, social science research ...
Title:Play Money? Contemporary Perspectives on Monetary Sovereignty
Author(s):HERRMANN, Christoph W.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Money has always been a difficult and complex concept and the views about what money actually is
could hardly be more diverse. This is all the more true in the times of completely manipulated
irredeemable paper currencies, ...