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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a
non-profit, non-partisan research institution
established to carry out research in the field
of sustainable development. One of its principal
aims is to promote interaction between academic,
industrial and public policy spheres in order to
comprehensively address concerns about economic
development and environmental degradation. Based
on the results achieved, FEEM has become the
privileged interlocutor of a number of policy
institutions, among which the IPCC, the European
Commission, the Italian Ministries of the
Environment, Treasury, Finance and Foreign
Trade, several Italian regions and local
municipalities and an important number of
international institutions (OECD, World Bank,
UNEP, etc.).
Research is organised into seven main areas. The
main objective of the Privatization Regulation
Corporate Governance (PRCG) Programme is to
catch on the structural changes that
privatisation involves. These aspects call for a
systematic inquiry about many fundamental policy
issues: (i) the different objectives and methods
of privatisation, the profound causes of
divestiture, and the financial and operating
performance of privatised firms; (ii) the new
role of the State as a regulator in sectors like
public utilities and infrastructure; (iii) the
antitrust policy in a global economy with an
enhanced private sector.
FEEM has been financed by the European
Commission over 70 research projects and has a
large experience in the dissemination of
theoretical and applied research. In fifteen
years FEEM has organised over 250 seminars among
which several workshops and 13 large-scale
conferences.
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
The Department of Economics and Business of the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra has earned a solid
reputation in its few years of existence through
its policy of attracting
internationally-renowned scholars. The faculty
has been formed in the top U.S. and European
universities, and it is highly international
(currently, more than 50% of the faculty
teaching in the graduate programme are
non-Spanish citizens).
The Department’s strong commitment to research
is borne out by the fact that it was recognised
as a “Centre of Excellence” by the European
Union, in the framework of the Human Capital and
Mobility (HC&M) Programme. In addition, four
research groups of the Department have received
grants from the EU through their participation
in the Training and Mobility of Researchers
networks with other European universities, to
carry out projects in Macroeconomics, Industrial
Organisation, Economic Theory, Mathematical
Modelling Theory and Experimental Economics. The
Department is also one of the very best in the
number of projects funded by the Ministerio de
Ciencia y Tecnología (the Spanish National
Research Agency). Other sources of recent
founding for research projects are Fundación
Ramón Areces, Fundación BBVA, Fondation Banque
de France and Mapfre, among others.
The Department organises around two hundred
seminars annually, structured in seven series
and also organises several international
conferences every year.
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University of Milan (UMIL- DEAS)
The Department of Economics, Business and
Statistics of University of Milan (DEAS) was
founded in 1992 and comprises now around 100
members among faculty members, doctoral students
and research assistants. It contributes with
high level teaching in several doctoral and
graduate schools in Economics, Public Economics,
Finance and Statistics and in the Masters on
International Cooperation, Public Health
Services, Environmental Economics and Policy.
The Department has an interdisciplinary
orientation and it is involved in a rich set of
research topics. The main research areas are
Economic Theory and Applications (public and
welfare economics, international economics and
finance, development economics, labour
economics, macroeconomics and growth theory),
Business, Marketing and Finance (business
intelligence, knowledge management,
geo-marketing, economics of the media, bank and
finance systems, risk management) and Statistics
and Mathematics (applied and theoretical
statistics, experimental designs, data-mining
and computational statistics, operational
research, non smooth optimisation, stochastic
processes and dynamical systems).
The Jean Monnet Chair in Economics of European
Integration, obtained in 2003 by Professor
Florio, Head of the Department, provided the
opportunity to organise, among other
initiatives, the cycle of Milan European Economy
Workshops, to discuss public policy topics that
are of interest to economists across the
European Union. The workshop is linked to a wide
research programme on European economic
integration and policy-making launched by the
Department, and to start up a new degree in
European economic studies.
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Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA-CIFRA)
The CIFRA Research Centre, founded in 1998, is a
research centre at the finance group at the
University of Amsterdam. It has been a member of
several EC research projects, such as the TMR
network ERBFMRXCT960054 on “Financial and
economic efficiency”; the TMR Network on
“Financing Retirement in Europe: Public Sector
Reform and Financial Market Development” (FINRET,
proposal n. RTN-2001-00512); and the RTD Project
“Privatisation and Financial Markets
Development” (PFM, Contract No
HPSE-CT-1999-00007) co-ordinated by Fondazione
Eni Enrico Mattei.
CIFRA researchers include members of the Finance
Group at the University of Amsterdam and long
term visitors of the Centre. It has an active
weekly seminar series, and a very active role in
organising international conferences (around 10
conferences in the last four year).
CIFRA has a proven track in organising
innovative research conferences involving the
best researchers from a very international
network. Its expertise includes an extensive
policy advice experience of its members with
international organisations. Members of the
group manage renowned research meetings on
enterprise finance, such as the Research Network
on Corporate Governance, and the CIFRA
International Conference Series, a series of
high level conferences organised around the
world.
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Ifo - Institute for Economic Research at the
University of Munich (IFO)
The Ifo Institute is organised as a registered
society whose purpose is non-profit economic and
social science research, founded in 1949. At
present its staff amounts to 160 members, about
90 being academics.
Today the work of the Ifo Institute builds on
three pillars: It (a) provides services for
research and for the interested public, (b)
advises economic policy-makers, and (c) carries
out economic research. To ensure its research
quality, the Ifo Institute has a Scientific
Advisory Council consisting of international
academic experts. The technical/administrative
processes of the Institute are certified
according to DIN EN ISO 9001. To guarantee an
intensive scientific exchange with the academic
community the Institute is affiliated through
CESifo with the University of Munich since 2000.
The Ifo Institute functions as think-tank with a
strong international orientation, serving
politics, business and the civil society. With
its empirical research of economic issues, its
wide spread survey activities, the provision of
analyses and forecasts, and the development of
scenarios and visions, it draws attention to new
ideas, and develops the theoretical foundations
for economic policy decisions. Currently, the
Institute enjoys a strong impact on the German
economic and social reforms discussions.
In the proposed Project mainly two IFO Units
will participate: The Department of Public
Sector Economics which is of key importance in
IFO’s contribution to the reforms discussion and
the Department of International Institutional
Comparisons in which economic and social
regulations in European Countries are assessed
and analysed. IFO’s Survey Department will
advise on empirical methodologies.
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -
Deutsches Institut fuer Internationale Politik
und Sicherheit (SWP)
The German Institute for International and
Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik (SWP) is an independent scientific
establishment that conducts practically oriented
research on the basis of which it then advises
the “Bundestag” (the German parliament) and the
federal government on foreign, security and
European integration policy issues. The analyses
and publications produced by and their
participation in national and international
debates on key issues help to shape opinion in
their respective domains.
SWP was set up in 1962 by private initiative in
Ebenhausen, near Munich, and given the legal
status of a foundation. Late in 2000 its
headquarters moved to Berlin, which has been
SWP’s new home since January 2001. Since January
1965, when the “Bundestag” unanimously backed
the establishment of an independent research
centre, the Institute has been federally funded.
This support is supplemented by contributions
from other research sponsors.
There are currently more than 130 staff working
at SWP’s German Institute for International and
Security Affairs. SWP has eight Research Units
employing more than 60 scholars. One of these
Units is the research Unit on European
Integration.
The European Integration Research Unit is
responsible for examining the internal
development of the EU and its international
relations. The topics of internal EU development
include basic constitutional issues affecting
the EU's competences, developments in the
individual policies, the enlargement of the EU
and the implications and Germany’s interests and
objectives in European policies. The development
of the internal market and questions of
Europeanisation are central research topics.
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Center for Economic Research and Graduate
Education of Charles University (CERGE)
The Center for Economic Research and Graduate
Education of Charles University (CERGE) was
founded in 1991 as an American-style Ph.D.
program in Economics taught entirely in English.
The goals and interests which serve as CERGE’s
mission are: 1) to train future public
officials, business leaders, and university
faculty and researchers from the former
communist countries of Central and Eastern
Europe in modern economics; 2) to stimulate and
support academic and policy-oriented economic
research; 3) to disseminate this research and
policy information to government officials,
corporate managers, and academic economists
throughout the region and the world through
seminars, symposia, conferences, working papers,
and other publications; and 4) to facilitate the
transfer of modern western standards of economic
instruction and scientific work to the Czech
Republic and other countries of Central and
Eastern Europe, with a special emphasis on
educating the instructors of future generations
of business leaders and voters.
Throughout its history, collaborative efforts
between international organisations have played
a major role. Since 1999, CERGE has been the
East European Regional Network representative
for the Global Development Network (GDN). The
GDN is comprised of nine regional networks and
an independent secretariat in Washington, D.C.,
and is an open, worldwide network of policy and
research institutes which aims to support the
generation, sharing and application to policy of
development knowledge. The CERGE-EI library is
an official depository for World Bank
publications.
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University of Padua (UNIPD)
The Department of Comparative Law of University
of Padua covers a broad spectrum of scientific
activities in the sphere of law. The Department
provides nearly all of the teaching for the
undergraduate degree course in Economic Law as
well as the former Course of Studies in
Political Sciences (specialisation
Political-Administrative). Some parts of the
Department are involved in the teaching
activities of the other undergraduate degree
courses and specialisation degrees offered by
the Faculty of Political Sciences, the Faculty
of Economics and other faculties of the
University of Padua (Faculty of Engineering,
Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Educational
Sciences).
The Department is the administrative base of the
Doctorate School of “International Law and
Private and Labour Law”, directed by Professor
Paolo Zatti. It participates in the Research
Doctorates in “Labour Law” and “Philosophy of
the Law”, based at the University of Padua,
“Administrative Law”, based at the State
University of Milan, and “Human Rights:
Evolution, Protection and Limits”, based at the
University of Palermo. The Department offers a
Specialisation Course in Bioethics. The
Department is the administrative base of the
Interdepartmental Centre of Economic and Legal
Studies (with the support of the Department of
Economic Sciences), the Interdepartmental Centre
of Research and Services for Legal and
Environmental Decisions and the Ethical
Certification of Businesses (with the support of
the Department of Philosophy).
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