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Understanding the Complexity of Modern Financial Systems (COMPLEXITY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The modern financial system has undergone immense transformation in recent years and is far more complex than ever before. In lockstep, financial regulation has also become more complex. This research proposal attempts to improve our understanding of potential drivers of this complexity and the implications of this change on the allocation of resources.Taking a positive rather than a normative app ...
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International Finance and Monetary Policy (INFIMOP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

How do financial globalization and monetary policies interact? This proposal studies the international transmission channels of monetary policy from the main financial centres to the rest of the world and the ability of countries to conduct independent monetary policy in a financially integrated world. I focus in particular on the role of different exchange rate regimes and on the implications of ...
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Revisioning the ‘Fiscal EU’: Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies (FairTax)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Plans for economic and monetary integration in the European Union call for fundamental changes in fiscal relations among EU member states and other countries. The 2012 Blueprint for the European Monetary Union (EMU) calls for deeper integration of fiscal policies at the level of domestic EU members, including establishing EU own-source revenues. The 2013 Social Dimension of the EMU emphasizes that ...
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Trash-2-Cash: Designed high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies (Trash-2-Cash)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products. The cotton production suffers from non-sustainab ...
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Empirical Macro-Finance and the Financial Economics of Insurance Markets (EMF-FEIM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"My project consists of two lines of work. 1.Empirical Macro-Finance: Asset prices are informative about the macro-economic risks that matter to investors and about the welfare costs of economic fluctuations. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that leading asset pricing models cannot explain how risks are priced across maturities in equity markets, which is a key input to measuring the co ...
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EUROPEAN CENTER FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Participating partner institutions: EBC Hochschule Campus Berlin, Regent's University London, ESG Management School Paris, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan The project aim is to form a consortium of European career services that tagether form a shared "transnational career service department". ...
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New integrated methodology and Tools for Retrofit design towards a next generation of ENergy efficient and sustainable buildings and Districts (NewTREND)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

NewTREND seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the existing European building stock and to improve the current renovation rate by developing a new participatory integrated design methodology targeted to the energy retrofit of buildings and neighbourhoods, establishing energy performance as a key component of refurbishments. The methodology will foster collaboration among stakeholders in the va ...
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Uncertainty, Risk and Inequality: The Role of Macroeconomic Policies and Institutions (MACROUNCERTINEQ)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Macroeconomic policies and macroeconomic institutions influence aggregate outcomes along a number of significant dimensions. While the empirical literature has traditionally focussed on the direct effects on economic activity and inflation, little is known on the impact that policy and institutional changes exert on the macroeconomy through their indirect effects on the distribution of resources a ...
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Long-Term Investment (LTI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The typical 20th-century firm was capital-intensive and competed on cost efficiency. The 21st-century firm is different. Competitive success increasingly depends on product quality, which in turn hinges on intangible assets such as brand strength, innovation, and corporate culture. Unlike tangible investment such as buying a factory, the fruits of intangible investment may take several years to ...
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Productivity, Non-Tariff Measures and Openness (PRONTO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The latter half of the 20th century saw a successful international effort to reduce tariffs. These achievements, however, were undone by the subsequent proliferation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) to limit international trade and investment. These measures take a variety of forms and include safety regulations, environmental standards, and corporate tax incentives, all of which influence both trade ...
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Systemic Risk and Feedback to the Real Economy (SystemicRisk)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

In this proposal I present two research themes that apply endogenous risk analysis to identify channels for the creation of systemic risk via various feedback loops. These projects identify new ways to consider and measure systemic financial risks and, more importantly, the linkages between the financial risks and the real economy, and the welfare consequences.In the first research theme, the focu ...
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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov ...
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Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe (ENHANCE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The main goal of the ENHANCE project is to develop and analyse new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts, by providing new scenarios and information in selected hazard cases in close collaboration with stakeholders, and by contributing to the development of new multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) to reduce or redistribute risk. Innovation in MSPs is essential, a ...
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Institutional Frictions in International Finance and Asset Pricing (IFAP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"My project consists of three lines of work.1. Incentives of Money Managers and Asset PricingThe leading theories of asset pricing stipulate that prices in financial markets are determined by households who seek to optimise lifetime consumption (or by the so-called representative consumer ). This approach leaves no role for important institutional frictions such as, e.g., financial constraints an ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting (FASUDIR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"About 40% of overall energy consumption in Europe is related to the building sector and over 50% of all materials extracted from earth are transformed into construction materials and products. With more than 70% of the building stock built before the first energy crisis (1970’s), energy retrofitting of buildings is envisaged as the most promising strategy to reach EU’s “20-20-20” targets. However ...
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GoEurope - wir bringen Berliner in Bewegung: Mobilität für Auszubildende, Berufsschüler, Absolventen der beruflichen Bildung, Referendare und Berufsbildungsexperten.

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

Context/Project Background; This project is the last in a string of mobility projects related to the certificate that was awarded to the Friedrich-List-Schule in 2009 covering one of our projects (interim report in 2012), funded with EU mobility grants. Due to this constellation only a shortened application for this 2014 project was required - so we didn’t have answers to the full application ava ...
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Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social policy and innovation (ImPRovE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

This research proposal takes as its starting points: (a) the long standstill in poverty reduction, especially for people of working age, (b) the complementarity between employment, economic growth and social inclusion that is focal in the EU 2020 strategy, and, (c) the emergence of socially innovative policies and actions in the margins of the European welfare states. It aims at the evaluation of ...
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Corporate Governance (GOV)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The objective of this proposal is to apply for an ERC Starting Grant to support a careful study of the design and implications of corporate governance. Corporate governance is the set of mechanisms that are designed to address the conflicts between the managers and owners of assets when there is a separation of ownership and control. These mechanisms are intended to monitor the person who has c ...
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The CONsumer COmpetence Research Training (CONCORT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Consumer science is touching the lives of 493 million EU Consumers with their consumption representing 58% of the EU GDP, yet the insights of consumer research typically fail to have a substantial impact on consumer welfare. The EC acknowledges the problem and places it high on its policy priorities. Consumer research is scattered across several disciplines in the social sciences with little commu ...
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Dynamic Structural Corporate Finance: Linking Theory and Empirical Testing (DYNACORP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

There are three components to this project: Theory; Empirical Testing; and Dissemination. All components are linked to the current policy question of how taxes influence debt and systemic risk, and all use novel dynamic structural models. I am unique in explicitly linking such models to empirical testing.Theory: “Learning, Capital Structure and Systemic Risk.” Standard dynamic structural models of ...
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Next Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life (NEXT-TELL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

NEXT-TELL will provide, through research and development, computational and methodological support to teachers and students so that they have available nuanced information about learning when it is needed and in a format that is supportive of pedagogical decision making, thus optimizing the level of stimulation, challenge, and feedback density. Methods and software will be developed that cover the ...
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Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents (MACROHETEROGENEITY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The global recession associated with the 2008-09 financial crisis has triggered a wave of unprecedented fiscal and monetary interventions. Despite their wide use across the world, the quantitative effects of these large scale measures on the aggregate economy remain unclear. The main reason for this uncertainty is that governments and central banks have been unable, so far, to target the househo ...
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Auction and Day-Ahead Markets Spikes (AaDAMS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The on-going restructuring and market design processes for the power sector, with its complex objectivesof competition, security and decarbonisation has created a need to understand the drivers of change andthe nature of electricity price dynamics. Since electricity is a unique commodity, not easily storablewith important implications when balancing supply and demand, any imbalances can cause larg ...
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Countries’ external balance sheets, dynamics of international adjustment and capital flows (IFA DYNAMICS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

This project develops new theories and constructs new datasets to understand the determinants of net and gross foreign assets, the trade balance and the exchange rate. It also quantifies their respective roles in the dynamics of countries’ external deficits. In previous work, I constructed a database of US foreign assets and liabilities to analyse the sustainability of US current account deficits. ...
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Cross-Organisational Assessment and Development of Intellectual Capital (CADIC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"In a global knowledge-based economy high performing clusters of different organisations are seen as the core of innovation, regional development and competitiveness for their members. Therefore there is a growing need for SMEs in Europe to engage and collaborate in networks and clusters. The European research project CADIC will help a large number of SME to set up and strengthen own clusters and ...
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The Foundation of Organization Design (ORGDESIGN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Organization design refers to choices about the formal structure of organizations. While the study of organization design is not new, it is not current either. This proposal describes a series of theory development projects I aim to undertake over the next three years towards strengthening the foundations of organization design as an area of academic enquiry. The projects focus on a) interactions ...
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FITT for Fostering interregional exchange in ICT Technology Transfer (FITT)

Start date: Dec 31, 2006, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

FITT is a unique opportunity to bring together different technology transfer offices dedicated to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) public research in North West Europe (NWE). As a process of diffusing public research results to the market. technology transfer is crucial in promoting innovation and sustainable growth generation. FITT faces two crucial barriers towards a common N ...
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"Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures in Europe : Impact on innovation, employment growth, and competitiveness" (VICO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The aim of the VICO project is to assess the impact of Venture Capital and Private Equity (VC/PE) financing on the economic performance of European innovative entrepreneurial ventures as they are reflected by their innovation output, employment, growth, and competitiveness, and the role VC/PE investors play in helping these firms bridge their resource and competence gap beyond the provision of fi ...
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Trilogy: Re-Architecting the Internet. \nAn Hourglass Control Architecture for the Internet, Supporting Extremes of Commercial, Social and Technical Control (Trilogy)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

This Trilogy proposal is for a 3-year Integrated Project targeting Challenge 1 of the 7th Framework Programme: "Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures". The project scope lies entirely within Objective 1.1, "The Network of the Future".The aim of the project is to develop new solutions for the control architecture of the Internet that remove the known and emerging technical defic ...
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OPTIMISING PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

OPTIMALE addresses one of the key challenges of a multilingual and multicultural Europe: how to ensure that Its universities continue to produce the high-level professionals that the Community translation services and the translation Industry need, to adapt to rapidly changing societal and market conditions. As recent reports have highlighted, the rapid technological changes of the past decade, fa ...
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Tuning Middle East and North Africa

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

Tuning MEDA project is aimed at the implementation of the Bologna tools in Southern Neighbouring Area universities through building of a framework of comparable, compatible and transparent programmes of studies. In order to achieve this, four specific objectives have been identified: to apply the Tuning methodology in universities of SNA in four subject areas – Law and Good Governance including Hu ...
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Menu for Justice. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

This project is framed in the current debate concerning the impact that education may have (and should have) on the well being of developed democratic society (USAID, 2007; UNESCO, 2006) and focuses this crucial aspect of contemporary life by paying particular attention to the role that legal and judicial education play in European societies. Within the EU legal and judicial education perform an ...
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C.E.S.E. - Commercial English for SME Employees

The C.E.S.E. project aims at identifying both tools and methodologies for English teaching and self-learning to SME employees. These identified tools and methodologies should be flexible, tailored, transferable to other languages/target groups and aimed particularly at the cross-cultural aspects of communication. All tools and methodologies should also be strongly linked with the working environme ...
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SUPERCOMET - Superconductivity Multimedia Educational Tool

SUPERCOMET aims to test, evaluate and introduce an educational multimedia tool related to superconductivity physics. Primary target groups will be teachers of physics within secondary education (and thus students within secondary education) plus existing employees (engineers) within the industry sector.The field of superconductivity physics is currently in a phase of expansion, there is a need to ...
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