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Evaluation of the Administrative Phase-Out of Coal Power Plants on the Italian Electricity Market
2020
Although decarbonisation is one of the most important macro-trends of this century, electricity generation from coal power plants is still broadly common. The main goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of a premature coal power plants phase-out on the Italian day-ahead electricity market. For this purpose, two electricity price forecasts, related to different scenarios between 2019 and 2030, and two different hypotheses for the creation of electricity spot price, were compared. The results from the different scenarios show that coal power plants phase-out determines a small variation in electricity price when bid-up is not considered
La Zone euro, noyau fédérateur de l'Europe
2016
L'Union Européenne manque clairement d'Union politique. Seule une Union politique pourrait promouvoir une vision globale à l'intérieur de l'UE, qui contrasterait avec l'approche actuelle, trop étroite et trop centrée sur l'économie et la finance. Le fonctionnement de la Zone euro, qui devrait représenter le noyau dur de l'Union, reste paradoxalement intergouvernemental. Il est donc important d'aligner la Zone euro sur ce qui constitue le régime général du traité de Lisbonne : la méthode communautaire. Les institutions de la Zone euro devraient plus s'inspirer des institutions ordinaires de l'Union, avec une Commission et un Parlement jouant leur rôle. Cette évolution peut être conduite par …
Fighting the COVID-19 Crisis: Debt Monétisation and EU Recovery Bonds
2020
AbstractThis paper highlights some peculiar characteristics of the economic crisis induced by the spread of COVID-19. It suggests two intertwined policy measures in order to tackle the emergency phase of the crisis and to support the economy in the subsequent recovery phase. The proposed short-term policy measures offer policy responses in the event of a second wave of coronavirus infections in the coming months. In the aftermath of the emergency phase, the current proposal puts forward the implementation of a massive EU-wide recovery plan addressing the long-lasting technological and environmental challenges of these years, which will be financed by European institutions through the issuan…
Les valeurs de l'Union Européenne à l'épreuve de la crise grecque
2016
Il est important de montrer qu'il existe une certaine différence entre les valeurs de l'Union Européenne telles qu'elles sont perçues par les citoyens, ces mêmes valeurs telles qu'elles découlent des traités et de la jurisprudence, et telles qu'on peut les déduire concrètement du fonctionnement de l'Union. De ce dernier point de vue, la crise grecque au sein de la zone euro montre que, derrière les discours et les professions de foi, on constate au sein d'une Union qui s'est édifiée sur l'axe économique une relative incertitude quant aux valeurs qu'elle est censée mettre en pratique aujourd'hui. Cet article examine notamment les conséquences de la crise grecque sur quelques valeurs de l'UE …
Next-Day Bitcoin Price Forecast
2019
This study analyzes forecasts of Bitcoin price using the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and neural network autoregression (NNAR) models. Employing the static forecast approach, we forecast next-day Bitcoin price both with and without re-estimation of the forecast model for each step. For cross-validation of forecast results, we consider two different training and test samples. In the first training-sample, NNAR performs better than ARIMA, while ARIMA outperforms NNAR in the second training-sample. Additionally, ARIMA with model re-estimation at each step outperforms NNAR in the two test-sample forecast periods. The Diebold Mariano test confirms the superiority of forecast …
Police violence in West Africa : Perpetrators' and ethnographers' dilemmas
2012
This article explores the use of violence by police officers and gendarmes in Ghana and Niger. We analyse how popular discourses, legal and organizational conditions frame the police use of violence. Acts of violence by police are situated in this inconsistent framework and can be seen as legal and appropriate, despicable and brutal, or as useful and morally legitimate. Thus, every time the police use violence, they face a major dilemma: legally and morally justified violence can be a source of long-term legitimacy; but because of multiple possible readings of a certain situation (according to different, conflicting moral and legal discourses), the very same action has potentially delegiti…
"Indépendance Cha Cha": African pop music since the independence era
2010
Investigating why Latin American music came to be the soundtrack of the independence era, this contribution offers an overview of musical developments and cultural politics in certain sub-Saharan African countries since the 1960s. Focusing first on how the governments of newly independent African states used musical styles and musicians to support their nation-building projects, the article then looks at musicians' more recent perspectives on the independence era. Der Beitrag gibt eine kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung ausgewählter Musikstile in verschiedenen afrikanischen Ländern seit der Unabhängigkeit. Der Autor schildert die Bemühungen der Regierungen in den jungen Nationalstaaten, M…
La recompensa del muro o la insegura proliferación del “barrio cerrado”. Reflexiones en torno a 'La Zona' y 'On the safe side'
2013
La proliferación en las metrópolis globales de los llamados "barrios cerrados" o gated communities obedece a una interpretación de la ciudad en clave de amenaza. Una de sus consecuencias es la fragmentación del suelo público de modo tal, que junto a la presunta protección de algunos, acaba exponiéndose el desequilibrio y la interperie económica y social en las que habita el resto de ciudadanos. El análisis de la película La Zona (Plá, R. 2007) y el documental On the safe side (Wichmann, C. & Schmid, L.2010) pone de relieve los elementos esenciales que dan forma a este tipo de ocupación del territorio metropolitano creando dinámicas de exclusión, distanciamiento y alteridad. La comparación e…
Glimmering utopias: 50 years of African film
2010
The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias. Die Geschichte des…
Digital Banking in Northern India: The Risks on Customer Satisfaction
2021
The widespread use of digital technologies and the current pandemic (COVID) have fueled the need and call for digital transformation in the banking sector. Although this has various benefits, it is a disruption to the norm to which a bank customer has to become accustomed. This variance means that customers would have to make some changes to their routine. This can constitute risks in terms of maintaining customer satisfaction at previous levels. These risks are associated with customer retention because a service or product needs to be aligned with customer expectations to avoid them switching to other service providers. Moreover, it can also have an effect on reputa- tion. Offering digita…