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 ...
Title:Regional Initiative: Which Appropriate Market Design?
Author(s):MOEN, JanDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The European Union has a long experience and many success stories when it comes both to build a
borderless Europe and to ensure that benefits are fairly distributed among producers and end-use
customers. In some sectors ...
Title:Regional Integration, Fragility and Institution Building: An Analytical Framework Applied to the African Context
Author(s):VERDIER, ThierryDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to discuss how regional integration processes may contribute to statebuilding
and promote exit from fragility for countries characterised by weak state institutions. After
presenting a simple ...