Title:The Pros and Cons of Ius Pecuniae: Investor citizenship in comparative perspective
Author(s):DZANKIC, JelenaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The aim of this paper is to look at economic aspects of citizenship and compare states offering naturalisation to investors. By analysing different investor citizenship programs, the paper highlights the normative tension ...
Title:Protection of Minors Online: Available Regulatory Approaches
Author(s):CASAROSA, FedericaDate:2011-03-28Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:If the second half of the 20th century saw the flourishing of a wide range of new technologies, the 21st
century is the time in which such technologies become ubiquitous. In particular, the Internet,
originally designed ...
Title:Public debates on integration and immigration in six West European countries
Author(s):HELBLING, MarcDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:By analyzing public debates on integration and immigration and issues this paper investigates to what
extent citizenship models can be considered a broader societal phenomenon. Do these models exist
beyond legal regulations? ...
Title:Public Support for the Financing of RD&D Activities in New Clean Energy Technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RÜSTER, Sophie; LIONG, Siok Jen; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Several market failures, as well as other technical, economic and regulatory barriers to the market
penetration of clean energy technologies result in under-investment of private innovators in RD&D.
Therefore, public ...
Title:Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge
Author(s):TÓKA, Gábor; POPESCU, MarinaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines cross-national variance in the impact of public and commercial television on
citizens’ political knowledge level and whether and how that variance may be related to differences in
the content of public ...
Title:Public v. Private Enforcement in the Electronic Communications Sector
Author(s):STOYANOVA, MilenaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The 2002 Common Regulatory Framework diversifies remedies to competition problems according to the market strength of telecoms providers. One set of remedies is particularly targeted at posing constraints on (pre-)existing ...
Title:Putting All One's Eggs in One Basket: Relational Contracts and the Provision of Local Public Services
Author(s):DESRIEUX, Claudine; CHONG, Eshien; SAUSSIER, StéphaneDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The provision of local public services is increasingly being contracted out to private companies. We observe that local governments regularly choose the same private operator for a range of different services, and develop ...
Title:Quality and Environmental Regulation: Verifying Compliance along the Supply Chain
Author(s):TZAVARA, Dionisia; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2010-03-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Among the factors providing incentives to monitor the behaviour of input suppliers are the regulatory requirements to which downstream firms are subject. We develop a formal economic model to examine the relationship between ...
Title:The Quest for Intercultural Dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Opportunities and Challenges
Author(s):KHALIFA ISAAC ATWAN, SallyDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper tackles the question of intercultural dialogue in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean
partnership. It focuses mainly on a fundamental point in the now persistent intercultural swing that the
Euro-Mediterranean ...
Title:Re-Imagining the Nation
Author(s):ZOLNER, MetteDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:A Real Options Model for Electricity Capacity Expansion
Author(s):GAHUNGU, Joachim; SMEERS, YvesDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper proposes a real option capacity expansion model for power generation with several technologies that differ in operation and investment costs. The economy is assumed perfectly competitive and the instantaneous ...
Title:Reconciling WTP to actual adoption of green energy tariffs: A diffusion model of an induced environmental market
Author(s):DIAZ-RAINEY, Ivan; TZAVARA, DionisiaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper develops a formal model that links the willingness to pay (WTP) literature with the established innovation diffusion literature. This concern arises from an attempt to reconcile the large disparities that have ...