Title:Wage assimilation : migrants versus natives and foreign migrants versus internal migrants
Author(s):STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, ClaudiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal ...
Title:Water Misallocation and Environmental Externalities in Electricity Generation
Author(s):BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR, Etienne; VINELLA, AnnalisaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We explore the interactions between environmental externalities and intertemporal market power in electricity generation industries where thermal operators imperfectly compete with operators using scarce water stored in ...
Title:What are the Issues in M&A arising from Electricity Market Restructuring?
Author(s):NEWBERY, DavidDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The energy merger was precipitated by energy market liberalisation that was often accompanied by
restructuring and privatisation putting companies into play and creating new market risks that could be
internalised by ...
Title:What Do Ads Buy? Daily Coverage of Listed Companies on the Italian Press
Author(s):GAMBARO, Marco; PUBLISI, RiccardoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We match data on the daily newspaper coverage of a sample of Italian listed companies with Nielsen
data on the monthly amount of advertising that a given company has purchased on a given newspaper.
Controlling for newspaper ...
Title:What Does the European Union Do?
Author(s):ALESINA, Alberto; ANGELONI, Ignazio; SCHUKNECHT, LudgerDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:What is Systemic Risk and what can be done about it? A Legal Perspective
Author(s):GRAY, JoannaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The global financial crisis challenges scholars from across many different disciplines to think about causes, immediate consequences and long term responses from the perspective of their particular disciplinary standpoint. ...
Title:What is the digital internal market and where the European Union should intervene?
Author(s):DEFRAIGNE, Philippe; DE STREEL, AlexandreDate:2011-06-20Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyses the digital internal market and when EU intervention is needed to achieve this
internal market. It sets legal and economic criteria to determine the appropriate scope of the EU
intervention. It applies ...
Title:What shapes local public transportation in Europe? Economics, Mobility, Institutions, and Geography
Author(s):ALBALATE, Daniel; BEL, GermàDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyzes the factors that explain supply and demand of local public transportation. Together with variables related to economics and mobility, we consider variables reflecting institutional characteristics and ...
Title:What Should Central Banks do about Real Estate Prices?
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Many central banks use inflation targeting as the basis for their monetary policy. The
underlying notion of this approach is that there are no long term benefits in terms of reduced
unemployment from having inflation. ...
Title:What Type(s) of Support Schemes for Storage in Island Power Systems?
Author(s):RIOUS, Vincent; PEREZ, YannickDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper proposes a support mechanism for energy storage devices for island power systems where intermittent renewable generation is rapidly growing. We base our proposal on the maturity level of storage devices (Chen ...