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Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability (GLAMURS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The overall aim of GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability) is to develop a theoretically-based and empirically-grounded understanding of the main obstacles and prospects for transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe, as well as of the most effective means to support and speed them up. The call states explicitly that for transit ...
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Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization (MINO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Complex decision making in enterprises should involve mathematical optimization methods, because a “best choice” has to be made out of a huge number of feasible options. A mathematical description of such decision processes typically involves both “continuous” and “discrete” decisions. If the latter are present, the customary modelling approach is to use integer variables, which are also used to ...
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Community Based Comprehensive Recovery (COBACORE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The Community Based Comprehensive Recovery (COBACORE) project aims to support common needs assessment and recovery planning efforts in complex multi-sectorial, multi-stakeholder crisis environments by building upon the community as an important source of information and capabilities. COBACORE aims to help bridge the so-called collaboration gap: failure of collaboration through insufficient informa ...
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Economic iNsTRuments to Achieve Climate Targets in Europe (ENTRACTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The ENTRACTE research project assesses the EU’s climate policy portfolio. While the EU ETS is key to promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy, ambitious GHG emissions reductions will be reached only if this scheme is improved and supported by complementary policies. A carefully considered policy design has to take into account existing market failures other than the climate externality, ...
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"Financial Development, Factor Misallocation and Total Factor Productivity" (FINMIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"This project aims to develop a quantitative macroeconomic model to study the effects of financial development on factor allocation and macroeconomic performance. We pursue to answer how financial development influences the joint determination of investment finance and capital-labour ratio choice for European based companies. The findings in this project will shed light on the importance of finan ...
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The Growth of New Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Internal Dynamics of Resources (ORGGROWTH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

"How can newly established organizations grow successfully? This question has captivated researchers in entrepreneurship and organization theory for decades. This literature has documented that such diverse issues as competition at founding, firm strategies, and the size and composition of the management team can predict organizational growth (e.g. Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1990). Underlying the ...
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Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT)

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

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) assumes greater practical significance and political relevance in the EU. A central concern is the extent to which CSR delivers benefits for economies, societies and the environment, providing a business contribution to the EU’s policies for growth, competitiveness, better jobs (Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable development (Gothenburg strategy). By contrast th ...
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Incentives in the Patent System (INCPATSYS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

"A key element of innovation policy is the patent system. For the patent system to perform its function of fostering innovation, an adequate process of patent review must be in place. Failure of the patent office and courts to weed out low-quality patents leads ex post to deadweight loss and costly litigation. If anticipated by firms, it may lead ex ante to an inefficient allocation of resources b ...
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Banking System Stability and Bank Regulation (bansysreg)

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

This research project aims to better understand the relationship between bank regulation and financial stability. Motivated by theoretical and historical debates about the role of government in the financial sector and the optimal design of bank regulation, this project aims to answer the following questions: What drives financial stability, both on the country and on the bank-level? What are adeq ...
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The Effect of On-Line Product Search on the Market Structure of Consumer Durables (SearchStruc)

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

"We propose to study the working of markets when consumers do not want to search all available choice options and when sellers recommend products based on what ""similar consumers"" have bought in the past. We argue that the current practice of on-line selling offers significant potential for selection mechanisms or limitations of what the consumer is aware of, prior to purchase. To study this iss ...
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Financial Institutions and Agency Problems: Theoretical Implications for Financial Stability and Regulation (FIAPTIFSR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"The emphasis of this research project is to model explicitly financial institutions (commercial banks) characterized by moral hazard. That is, a situation where banks invest depositors' money in risky assets, obtaining high rewards in case of success but shifting the losses to the depositors in case of failure. The incorporation of moral hazard into the behavior of financial institutions has been ...
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Investments in the electricity market: Model and Applications (eninvest)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

* Research Objective Many economists are concerned that without regulation, insufficient generation capacity will be built in the liberalized electricity market, given its market failures: markets are incomplete and generators have market power. The aim of this project is to study (1) whether government intervention is required to regulate the security of supply and, if so, (2) what the best regu ...
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Probabilistic Long-term Assessment of New Energy Technology Scenarios (PLANETS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

"The goal of PLANETS is to devise robust scenarios for the evolution of energy technologies in the next 50 years. This is achieved by means of an ensemble of quantitative and analytical tools that are designed to foresee the best technological hedging policy in response to future environmental and energy policies. Focused technological assessments will provide the necessary guidance for technology ...
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