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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

University College <London> / School of Slavonic and …

The School of Slavonic and East European Studies is one of the world's leading specialist institutions, and the largest national centre in the UK, for the study of Central, Eastern and South-East Europe and Russia; it possesses one of the most important research libraries in its field.

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European and national identities in EU's old and new member states:

Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Józef; … - 2004

three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being based … on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which …" theory, which understands identities as being based on agreement over rules for peaceful political co-existence. The …

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The Treaty of Nice and the distribution of votes in the Council - voting power consequences for the EU after the oncoming enlargement

Plechanonova, Bela - 2003

The IGC 2000 had the objective to prepare the European Union for the enlargement. The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the Nice solution of the Council's decision-making rules from the perspective of the decision on the number of candidate countries which should join the EU in 2004, as...

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Nesting Europe

Craciun, Claudiu - 2003

The aim of this paper is provide an overview of European studies in Romania try to offer some information and perspectives which can help both Romanian institutions and the community of scholars in gearing their policies and efforts towards a faster institutionalisation of this research area....

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Information acquisition and decision making in committees

Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003

This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...

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Government deficits, wealth effects and the price level in an optimizing model

Annicchiarico, Barbara - 2003

This paper investigates the in inflationary effects of fscal policy in an optimizing general equilibrium monetary model with capital accumulation, exible prices and wealth effects. The model is calibrated to Euro Area quarterly data. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt...

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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models

Monti, Francesca V. - 2003

This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...

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Monetary and fiscal interactions in open economies

Lombardo, Giovanni; Sutherland, Alan - 2003

A two-country sticky-price model is used to analyse the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy. The role of an u0091activistu0092 fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool is considered and a measure of the welfare gains from international fiscal policy cooperation is derived. It is found...

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Inflation persistence and robust monetary policy design

Coenen, Günter - 2003

This paper investigates the performance of optimised interest rate rules when there is uncertainty about a key determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inﬂation process. The paper focuses on the euro area and utilises two variants of...

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Inflation, factor substitution and growth

Klump, Rainer - 2003

already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining …

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