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Title:Let’s bargain! : setting standards for sustainable biofuels Author(s):SCHLEIFER, PhilipDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/124; Global Governance Programme-148; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper studies the contested nature of new modes of governance two decades after the “participatory paradigm” was announced at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. With a focus on private multi-stakeholder initiatives, it ...
Title:Embracing diversity : plurilateral agreements and the trading system Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.
; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CEPR Discussion Paper; 2014/10204; [Global Governance Programme]; [Global Economics]Abstract:Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for ‘variable geometry’ in the WTO. Current WTO rules ...



Title:L’Union européenne en crise face au dogme de l’efficience des marchés financiers Author(s):PRÜM, AndréDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2013/01; Global Governance Programme-35; Global EconomicsAbstract:The European Union crisis responses and the Efficient Capital Markets Hypothesis (ECMH) :
The hypothesis that capital markets naturally function in an efficient way - possibly one of the widest accepted dogmas of contemporary ...
Title:Exchange of information and validity of global standards in tax law : abstractionism and expressionism or where the truth lies Author(s):DOURADO, Ana PaulaDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2013/11; Global Governance Programme-37; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper analyses the question on whether a Hercules legislator would validly propose a global standard, in particular, exchange of information between tax officials and those taxpayers who have a connection with one of ...
Title:Personalization and the Future of News Author(s):HINDMAN, MatthewDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2012/56; Global Governance Programme-29; Global EconomicsAbstract: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:Choosing between the UN and OECD Tax Policy Models: An African case study Author(s):DAURER, Veronika; KREVER, RichardDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2012/60; Global Governance Programme-31; Global EconomicsAbstract:Almost all the world's tax treaties are based on precedents found in an OECD model tax convention or a UN model tax convention. Both model divide taxing rights on cross-border investment and business activities. The OECD ...
Title:How relevant is the public private distinction in the case of voluntary sustainability standards? Author(s):MARX, AxelDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/30; Global Governance Programme-168; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper argues that the distinction between public and private standards only make sense if one looks at the legal status of specific standard-setting organisations. If one switches the unit of analysis the distinction ...
Title:The Global Reach of the Proposed EU Financial Transaction Tax Directive: Creating momentum through internal legislation? Author(s):VAN VOOREN, BartDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2012/28; Global Governance Programme-23; Global EconomicsAbstract:In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, taxation of the financial sector has forcefully re-emerged on the European Union political agenda. One proposal – rightly or wrongly – received much political attention: a broad-based ...
Title:Internet Law in the Era of Transnational Law Author(s):POLLICINO, Oreste; BASSINI, MarcoDate:2011-01-01Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2011/24; Global Governance Programme-04; Global EconomicsAbstract:Since its birth, the Internet has usually been considered as a threat to the traditional conception of sovereignty as power of a state to regulate the interactions taking place within its territory. The extraterritorial ...
Title:Taxing Hidden Wealth: Lessons for policy making Author(s):JOHANNESEN, Niels
Date:2012Citation:
- Global Governance Programme-20
Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2012/25; Global Governance Programme-20; Global EconomicsAbstract:The past decade has seen several large-scale policy initiatives against offshore tax evasion and policy activity is still hectic. The present paper reviews available data sources on household wealth in offshore jurisdictions, ...
