This paper examines whether and how viewers respond to changes in partisan bias in media news. We use data from Italy, where the main private television network is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the centerright coalition, and the public television corporation is largely controlled by...

Even though the EU clearly leads the global fight against climate change and despite the additional reduction in emissions due to the global crisis and European recession, the ambitious objectives flagged in the ‘‘20-20-20 by 2020’’ strategy and ‘climate-energy package’ may be out of...

The paper investigates empirically the medium-term determinants of Current Accounts, Net Foreign Asset Positions and Real Exchange Rates in Low Income Countries (LICs). The authors build a new dataset for 54 LICs over the period 1981-2005. They control for the standard determinants of external...

Communication donnée lors du Forum international "The Copenhagen Summit: The French Perspective", qui s'est tenu en 2009 au Brandeis University's Center for German and European Studies (Canada).

The recent crisis has deeply changed the environment in which the EC-Turkey Custom Union (ECT) will develop. The world trade in goods was experiencing its worst collapse in almost a century (a fall of 20 percent in volume in one year, twice more than in 1929-30 for the same time lapse) but it...

Many observers agree that the multilateral liberalization of service trade was a response to the intense lobbying efforts of financial service companies. In contrast, many of the firms that were affected by the General Agreement on the Trade of Services did not know where their interests lay in...