36 research outputs found
EUP902530 Supplemental Material1 - Supplemental material for What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
No full textSupplemental material, EUP902530 Supplemental Material1 for What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union by Michal Ovádek, Nicolas Lampach and Arthur Dyevre in European Union Politics</p
EUP902530 Supplemental Material2 - Supplemental material for What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
No full textSupplemental material, EUP902530 Supplemental Material2 for What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union by Michal Ovádek, Nicolas Lampach and Arthur Dyevre in European Union Politics</p
The Court of Justice and treaty revision: A case of strategic leniency?
No full text© The Author(s) 2018. Students of European Union judicial politics have debated the credibility of legislative override as constraint on the behaviour of the European Court of Justice. Yet because of the high political hurdles for the passage of treaty amendments, treaty revision has been dismissed as the ‘nuclear option’, exceedingly effective but difficult to use. However, when treaties are being renegotiated, the ability of member state governments to pass treaty amendments to either punish or reward the Court is greater. We argue that this may induce the Court of Justice to display more leniency towards member states in cases coinciding with ongoing treaty negotiations. To test this hypothesis, we examine the outcome of all infringement cases adjudicated between 1961 and 2016. We find that the European Court of Justice is significantly less likely to render adverse rulings in cases concomitant with the final, most salient stage of treaty negotiations. Our analysis suggests that the relationship between treaty revision and judicial behaviour may be more nuanced than commonly assumed in the literature.sponsorship: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Arthur Dyevre and Nicolas Lampach acknowledge financial support from ERC Starting Grant 638154 (EUTHORITY). (ERC Starting Grant|638154)status: Published onlin
Re-evaluation of coffee certification in Ethiopia : robustness check of the propensity score matching
No full textAus einer Studie von JENA ET AL. (2011) geht hervor, dass die Zertifizierung von Kaffee nur einen geringen Effekt auf die Lebensgrundlage von Kleinbauern hat, aber zu einem höheren Pro-Kopf Konsum führt. In dieser Arbeit prüfen wir die Annahmen, auf denen diese Ergebnisse beruhen. Die Resultate zeigen, dass die Kovariaten in der ursprünglichen Studie durch das Matching nicht genügend ausgewogen werden. Als Alternative wenden wir die Mahalanobis Matching Technik an, die zu ausgeglichenen Kovariaten führt und das Ergebnis des höheren pro Kopf Konsums bestätigt. Zusätzlich zeigt die Anwendung von Mahalanobis Matching, dass zertifizierte Bauern geringere Ernteerträge erwirtschaften. Dennoch sind die Resultate durch die kleine Stichprobenanzahl und die Datenqualität statistisch schwach abgesichert. Unsere Untersuchungen bestätigen, dass die Resultate aus Studien, die Propensity Score Matching anwenden, anfällig gegenüber der Auswahl des Matchingverfahrens sind und die Ausgeglichenheit der Variablen dargelegt werden sollte.A study by JENA ET AL. (2011) found that coffee certification has generally a low impact on small scale producers’ livelihood but increases per capita consumption. By replicating their analysis, our study checks the assumptions of these findings. Particularly, the focus is on verifying the covariate balance after matching of the original study. Further we analyse robustness with respect to different matching methods. We find imbalanced covariates in the original study and propose the Mahalanobis matching technique, which provides a good covariate balance and confirms the results of an increased per capita consumption. By applying Mahalanobis matching to the propensity score model of JENA ET AL. (2011), we additionally find lower yields for certified farms. Nevertheless, the small sample size and the data quality render these results disputable. This analysis confirms that results of propensity score matching studies are susceptible to the choice of the matching method and that covariate balance checking should be reported.eingereicht von Nicolas LampachWien, Univ. für Bodenkultur, Masterarb., 2013Zsfassung in dt. und franz. Sprach
Essai sur la gestion des risques en présence d'ambiguïté
No full textThe thesis aims to establish an optimal technological risk management to ensure hazard reduction of new emerging risks without impeding the innovation path. The research work contributes to ex-ante and ex-post risk management strategies and provides theoretical and empirical evidence to address the management of new emerging risks. The first part of the thesis examines, from the perspective of Law and Economics, the effectiveness of the tort liability rule for the situation where the decision maker is lacking information about the probability of an event to occur. The second part of the thesis pays particular attention to the environmental energy transition in France and focus on the insurability of the energy performance in the housing sector. The theoretical and experimental findings from the first part of the research convey strong validity that tort law cannot provide ex-ante optimal incentives when there is lacking information about the probability of accident. The regime of unlimited and limited liability leads to overinvestment in prevention in regard to new emerging risks. The empirical results of the second part of the thesis reveal that 23.75% of households participated in the weatherization program "Je Rénove BBC" do not achieve the required energy target but the severity of the energy performance gap is relatively low. The findings of the research work imply several policy recommendations to manage new emerging technologies in the future.La thèse vise à établir une gestion du risque technologique optimal pour assurer la réduction des dangers de nouveaux risques émergents, sans entraver le chemin de l'innovation. Les travaux de recherche apportent une contribution aux stratégies ex-ante et ex-post de la gestion des risques et fournissent des données théoriques et empiriques pour aborder la gestion des nouveaux risques émergents. La première partie de la thèse examine, du point de vue juridique et économique, l'efficacité de la règle de la responsabilité civile lorsque le décideur manque d'information sur la probabilité d'un événement. La deuxième partie de la thèse porte une attention particulière à la transition énergétique en France afin de se concentrer sur l'assurabilité de la performance énergétique dans le secteur du logement. Les résultats théoriques et expérimentaux de la première partie de la recherche attestent d'une forte validité empirique selon laquelle le droit de la responsabilité civile ne peut pas fournir des incitations optimales ex-ante en absence d'information sur la probabilité d'accident. Les régimes de la responsabilité illimitée et limitée conduisent à un surinvestissement dans la prévention par rapport aux nouveaux risques émergents. Les résultats empiriques de la deuxième partie de la thèse révèlent que 23,75% des ménages, qui ont participé au programme de rénovation "Je Rénove BBC", ne peuvent pas atteindre l'objectif d'énergie prévu, mais l'amplitude de l'écart de performance énergétique est relativement faible. Les résultats des travaux de recherche impliquent plusieurs recommandations politiques pour gérer les nouvelles technologies émergentes dans le futur
Choosing for Europe: judicial incentives and legal integration in the European Union
No full textWe investigate the factors influencing the choice of domestic judges to pass on cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union. While EU judicial scholars have typically relied on integration theory or ad hoc theories of adjudication to explain referral activity, our theoretical framework draws on general judicial decision making theory and focuses on the incentives and constraints national judges face when deciding whether to submit a references to the Court of Justice. Consistent with our rationalist account of judging, we find empirical evidence that the rate at which national courts refer cases is influenced by familiarity with EU law, power-seeking motives and political fragmentation.sponsorship: European Research Council|638154 (EUTHORITY)status: Published onlin
Spatial Disparities in EU Law Use. Exploring the GEOCOURT Dataset
No full textsponsorship: The authors acknowledge financial support from European Research Council Horizon 2020 Starting Grant #638154 (2020). (European Research Council|638154 (EUTHORITY))status: Published onlin
Issue Attention on International Courts: Evidence from the European Court of Justice
No full textsponsorship: European Research Council|638154 (EUTHORITY)status: Published onlin
The Unequal Reach of Transnational Institutions: Mapping, Predicting and Explaining Spatial Disparities in the Use of EU Law
No full textCredibility of propensity score matching estimates. An example from Fair Trade certification of coffee producers
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