Proposals for the 1st Research Workshop of the 2nd EPIC Cohort of Doctoral Researchers

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Theme: Political Economy of Innovation

Title: Public Investment in R&D: Should the Public Sector in Lagging Regions Invest in R&D to Compensate the Lack of Private R&D?
Author: Benat Bilbao-Osorio
University: London School of Economics, UK

Title: Regulating Innovation and Its Attendant Risks
Author: Joseph Corkin
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: Imperfect Competition and Firm-Sponsored Training
Author: Sylvain Daffix
University: University Lyon II, France

Title: How do learning-by-doing and technological innovation relations impact on long-run growth?
Author: Emmanuelle Fortune
University: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Title: Economics of the Alive One: Technological Adoption Versus Technological Acceptance
Author
: Edouard Guerreiro
University: University of Social Sciences of Toulouse, France

Title: Restructuring Innovation Systems in Eastern Europe under the Influence of West European Firms and Organisations
Author: Per Hoegselius
University: Linkoping University, Sweden

Title: Will a reduction in regional support lead to larger economic gaps among regions, particularly regarding rates of innovation?
Author: Pedro Leon
University: University of the Basque Country, Spain

Title: European Regulation: Integrating Scientific Expertise in the EU Decision-making - is the Agency Model the Solution to the Current Credibility Crisis?
Author: Ricard Ramon
University: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Title: Bottlenecks in the European Digital Television Industry
Author: Boris Rotenberg
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: Innovation Through Knowledge-intensive Producer Services: Progress in EU and Perspectives of Experience Transfer to the Baltic States
Author: Jurate Stanaityte
University: Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Theme: European Monetary Union - Institutions, Policies, Actors

Title: The Role of Social Partners in Formulating and Implementing European Social and Employment Policy
Author: Samia Awada
University: University of Warwick, UK

Title: The Institutional Framework of G8
Author: Martina Conticelli
University: University La Sapienza, Italy

Title: The Interaction of Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining in the EMU
Author: Sebastian Dullien
University: Free University Berlin, Germany

Title: The PE of Economic Openness
Author: Jose Fernandez
University: Insituto Juan March, Spain

Title: An empirically informed account of the role of economic ideas in the formation of EMU  
Author: Andreas Gofas
University: University of Warwick, UK

Title: Institutionalisation of International Negotiation Systems
Author: Alexandra Kiel
University: University of Mannheim, Germany

Title: Domestic Politics of EMU. Shaping Consensus on Government Economic Policies and Ideas
Author: Benedicta Marzinotto
University: London School of Economics, UK

Title: Towards New Working Methods and a New Institutional Architecture? The Euro group and the Economic Pillar of EMU
Author: Uwe Puetter
University: The Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Title: Economic and Fiscal Policy Co-ordination in EMU
Author: Daniela Schwarzer
University: Free University Berlin, Germany; European University Institute, Italy

Title: Optimal Policy Rule in a Small Open Economy
Author: Jan Strasky
University: Oxford University, UK

Title: The European Employment Strategy: Setting the Agenda for the Future
Author: Samantha Velluti
University: University of Nottingham, UK

Theme: Labour Markets and Welfare States

Title: Reconciliation of Family and Employment in South Europe, 1965 - 95
Author: Maria Bozini
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: Female Labour Supply
Author: Helene Couprie
University: CNRS, France

Title: Social Partnership in the Greek System of Industrial Relations
Author: Elias Galinos
University: Manchester School of Management, UK

Title: Labour Incorporation of Immigrants: a First Step Toward Social Integration?
Author: Amparo Gonzalez
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: The Trade-off between Growth and Equality: the Role and Influence of a Changing Idea on the Political Strategy of Social Democracy
Author: Maria Jimenez
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: Fiscal Decentralisation in Spain and Italy
Author: Sandra Leon
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: A Study of the Changes in Family Formation in Various Nations of the EU in the Globalisation Process
Author: Tiziana Nazio
University: University of Bielefeld, Germany

Title: The Rise in Female Employment and the Process of Welfare Restructuring. Spain as a Case of Analysis
Author: Eulalia Rubio
University: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Title: How can Governmental Strategies Account for Different Female Labour Market Outcomes?
Author: Leire Salazar
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: Political Decisions and the Trade-off Between Staying at Home and Working in Bad Conditions
Author: Andres Santana
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: Financial Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Greece
Author: Elisabeth Springler
University: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Title: Convergence or Divergence? A Comparative Study of the Developments in Collective Bargaining in France, Great Britain and Germany
Author: Niels-Erik Wergin
University: London School of Economics, UK

Title: The Impact of Technological Change on the Structure of the Labour Market and in Particular on Wages and the Gender Gap
Author: Theodora Xenogiani
University: London School of Economics, UK

Theme: Political Economy of Transition and Enlargement

Title: FDI and State in Transformation: the Impact of Foreign Ownership of Economic Assets on the Evolution of the Post-Socialist State
Author: Zoltan Adam
University: Central European University, Hungary

Title: Understanding Constraints. An Analysis of the Determinants of Success and Failure in the East European Reform Process
Author: Andreas Bagenholm
University: Gothenburg University, Sweden

Title: Enabled by Global, Constrained by Local: Embeddedness of FDI in the CEE Transition Countries
Author: Nina Bandelj
University: Princeton University, USA

Title: The Road to Damascus? From Copenhagen to Helsinki: National Preferences and Enlargement
Author: Spyros Blavoukos
University: University of Essex, UK

Title: The Policy of the EU towards Central and South-eastern Europe
Author: Agata Dziewulska
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: The State of the State: a Fiscal Perspective on State Formation and Transformation in Ukraine and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union
Author: Verena Fritz
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: The Implications of International Influence on Policy Making in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparative View of Minority Policy
Author: Sharon Goldberg
University: London School of Economics, UK

Title: The PE of the Accession to the EU: the Case of Poland
Author: Anna Gwiazda
University: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Title: PE of Transition and Accession. The Importance of Liberalisation and Demonopolisation for Fighting with Rent-seeking Activities
Author: Vitalyi Levchuk
University: Central European University, Hungary

Title: Globalisation of Financial Markets, Hungary and Slovenia
Author: Dora Piroska
University: Central European University, Hungary

Title: The Political Economy of Local Governance in CEE
Author: Daniel Pop
University: Central European University, Hungary

Title: Institutional Frameworks in the Face of Political Mobilisation and Conflicts of Ethnic Minorities in CEE  
Author: Ruben Ruiz
University: Instituto Juan March, Spain

Title: Evolution of Labour Market in a German-Czech Border Region- Effects of Transition and Effects of Borders in an Enlargement Perspective
Author: Helene Sallard
University: Centre ENS-Geophile, France

Title: Democratic Consolidation: Persistence and Quality of Democracy in Europe and Latin America
Author: Carsten Schneider
University: European University Institute, Italy

Title: The German Co-operation to Eastern and Central Europe: Transfer the German Welfare State to the East? A Study of the Bilateral Technical Assistance Program 'Transform' 
Author
: Elsa Tulmets
University: Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France

Title: Europeanisation of the Executive in Poland
Author: Radoslav Zubek
University: London School of Economics, UK

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