Title:Dealing with the Past: Memory and European Integration
Author(s):CLOSA, CarlosDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Jean Monnet Working PapersAbstract:Memory has become an object of dispute in the EU. Different groups and states do not have a full convergence of views and this raises the question as to whether the EU should or should not be involved. A pluralist conception ...
Title:Debt Consolidation and Fiscal Stabilization of Deep Recessions
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; KUESTER, Keith; MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The global financial crisis of 2008–09 has sent public debt on sharply
higher trajectories. With the economic recovery gradually taking hold, the
focus is now shifting to fiscal “exit” strategies. Medium-term ...
Title:Decarbonizing the European Electric Power Sector by 2050: A tale of three studies
Author(s):DELARUE, Erik; MEEUS, Leonardo; BELMANS, Ronnie; D'HAESELEER, William; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:If Europe is serious about climate change, it has to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by
80% by 2050, thereby effectively going to a (near-) zero carbon energy and thus, electricity system.
The European Climate ...
Title:Degree of Coordination in Market-coupling and Counter-trading
Author(s):OGGIONI, Giorgia; SMEERS, YvesDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Cross-border trade remains a contentious issue in the restructuring of the European electricity market.
Difficulties stem from the lack of a common market design, the separation between energy and
transmission markets ...
Title:Delegation of Power and Agency Losses in EU Trade Politics
Author(s):DA CONCEICAO-HELDT, EugeniaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper addresses the problem of agency losses (agency shirking and agency slippage) in the process of power delegation in EU trade policy. The central question is whether a conflictual situation exists between the ...
Title:Deregulating Telecommunications in Europe: Timing, Path-Dependency, and Institutional Complementarities
Author(s):BELLOC, Filippo; NICITA, Antonio; PARCU, Pier LuigiDate:2011-09-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We investigate institutional and policy drivers of telecommunications deregulation in Europe. In
particular, we focus on those determinants which received so-far a comparatively little attention:
policy speed and timing, ...
Title:Design of Auctions for Short-Term Allocation in Gas Markets Based on Virtual Hubs
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, MichelleDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Gas markets based on virtual hubs has been the preferred EU design. Such market designs are based on socializing network flexibility services. Nonetheless, shippers have different preferences about the network flexibility, ...
Title:The Design of the Internal Energy Market in Relation to Energy Supply Security and Climate Change
Author(s):RIOUS, VincentDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP), the Loyola de Palacio Chair on EU Energy Policy of the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (European University Institute), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei ...