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Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in Economics and Finance (NAMSEF)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

This proposal is about developing nonparametric methodology for applications in economics and finance. It is broadly in two parts. The first part is related to my work on separable nonparametric models, which is at the frontier of econometric methodology. I am working on a number of projects that extend the applicability of these methods to problems of current interest. The second part is related ...
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Development of a European Implementation Score for measuring implementation of research into healthcare practice using vascular disease as an example (EIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"This collaborative project will develop a European methodology to assess the implementation of research evidence into practice (the European Implementation Score (EIS)), in primary, secondary and specialist care from the perspectives of different target groups (users and carers, voluntary organisations, range of health and social care professionals and health policy makers). The EIS will measur ...
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"Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Qualities of Democracy, Qualities of Media" (MDCEE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The relationship between democracy and the media in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is poorly understood. Not only have western media models been unhelpful in understanding these transitions but there has also been a notable lack of attention given to media within the transitions literature. This project intends to address this by taking a novel and interdisciplinary approach to this question. T ...
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Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Global Histories of Material Progress in the East and the West (URKEW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

"This proposal falls in paradigms for historical research in the comparative economic history of long-run global perspective: associated with the scholarship of Max Weber and Marc Bloch. It is focused upon cosmologies and cultures, promoting or restraining the accumulation of useful and reliable knowledge of production in the Orient and the Occident in the early-modern period - from the accession ...
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"Explaining EU's External Relations. Origins and consolidation of EU's policy towards Eastern Europe and Russia, 1969-1985" (ECOSTPOLITIK)

Start date: Apr 4, 2011, End date: Apr 3, 2013,

"The research project deals with the European Community’s (EC) relations with Eastern Europe in the period 1970-1985. It explores the attempts of the EC and its member states to shape, implement, and further develop an autonomous and collective Eastern policy (Ostpolitik) as part of a more general effort at asserting a distinct political role for the EC in the international arena. Focusing on the ...
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Assessing Needs of Care In European Nations (ANCIEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The large post-war baby boom is now turning into a grandparent boom, putting a triple stress on long-term care (LTC) provisions: increased numbers of elderly, increased survival of these elderly and increased survival of frail, disabled elderly through improved care and health care. Increasing body weights, through increasing disability and care dependence among the obese, further add to numbers ...
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"Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach" (AMID)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"Development Economics has seen an explosion of high quality empirical work in the past ten years. But despite the quality of many individual researchers, Europe is lagging behind the US in terms of number of students, faculty, and publications. Remedying this gap is important, not only for scientific reasons, but also because development research is a critical input to decision making by Governme ...
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Rational Decision-Making in Adaptation to Climate Change (ClimAdapt)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Climate change is considered one of the most severe challenges facing humankind. Warming of the climate is expected to have profound global impacts, not only on the Earth as a physical system, but also on the well-being of humans, and on societies and economies. Two fundamental policy approaches exist to reduce the environmental, economic and social threats posed by climate change: mitigation (gre ...
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Climate change and the Insurance Industry (CCII)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"Recent documents from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK Stern Review, have argued cogently that governments, industry and agencies should urgently address the scientific, economic and social implications of climate. The insurance industry must start adapting in response to weather and climate risks. Climate and weather forecasting hosts a wide range of scientific and mathem ...
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HEALTH PROfessional Mobility in THe European Union Study (HEALTH PROMeTHEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Health professionals have always moved to, from and within Europe for work and other reasons. However, concerns about the scale of movement and its impacts on health systems are increasing. New disease patterns, new technology and increasingly global markets have multiplied pressures on health systems. Policy makers and managers need to respond but do not know enough about what is happening. EHMA ...
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SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFI-GLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for the environment.’ They drew up the ‘Lisbon agenda’ to achieve this goal by 2010. The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowle ...
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Constitutional Law in the Age of Circulation of Factors of Production (CONCIRCLAW)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"The aim of the research proposal ‘Constitutional Law in the Age of Circulation of Factors of Production’ (CONCIRCLAW) is to test how and to what extent EU law of free movement a) is transforming some of the key concepts of member states’ constitutionalism such as citizenship, equality, political participation and judicial review of legislation b) is developing a form of constitutional law at supr ...
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Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the European Union (MultiPart)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

By consolidating and advancing the knowledge on factors that facilitate peace and foster human security, this project meets the goals of the 7th Framework area 8.4.2. Conflicts, Peace, and Human Rights. Namely, it investigates whether, how, and under what conditions multi-stakeholder partnerships can positively impact on human security and thus, facilitate non-violence and long-term peace, and pro ...
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Intuitive Ethics and Sensitive Technologies (INEST)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

"The broad objective of the Intuitive Ethics and Sensitive Technologies (INEST) project is to advance the understanding of factors underlying public perceptions of sensitive technologies – technologies whose implications intersect with social values and challenge presumptions about the natural order and life. It is intended to move the field beyond static descriptions of public opinion to the dyna ...
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