PUBLICATION | 2014 Modelling the Common Agricultural Policy. General equilibrium effects of the 2014-2020 budget agreement This research work presents methodological development of MAGNET, a sophisticated agricultural variant of the well-known GTAP computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for representing the Common Agricultural Policy...
PUBLICATION | 2015 Proximity-Structured Multivariate Volatility Models In many multivariate volatility models, the number of parameters increases faster than the cross-section dimension, hence creating a curse of dimensionality problem. This paper discusses specification and identification of structured...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-Based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to Present Tropical Applications of Meteorology Using Satellite Data and Ground-Based Observations (TAMSAT) rainfall monitoring products have been extended to provide spatially contiguous rainfall estimates...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Towards a new benchmark on adult skills for sustainable growth: A revision of potential indicators and sub-indicators for monitoring This technical report aims to provide a framework for the collection of statistical indicators and sub-indicators on adult skills. This information can be used to monitor skill development among EU...
PUBLICATION | 2014 The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age: Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten The history of the future is now written in bytes. Current and emerging information technologies are mediating and shaping the narratives we built both about ourselves as individuals and ourselves...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Modelling regional labour market dynamics: Participation, employment and migration decisions in a spatial CGE model for the EU This paper models regional labour market adjustments to macro-economic and policy shocks through participation, employment and migration decisions of workers in the regional CGE model Rhomolo. Being...
PUBLICATION | 2014 The Life Cycle Data Network Joint Reseach Centre - Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Italy The Life Cycle Data Network, available through the European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (EPLCA)...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Ongoing activities for the improvement of the Resource Directory of the European Platform on LCA To support EU environmental policies based on Life Cycle approach, the European Commission launched the “European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (EPLCA).” The platform aims at providing...
PUBLICATION | 2015 Do Emissions and Income Have a Common Trend? A Country-Specific, Time-Series, Global Analysis, 1970-2008 This paper uses Vector Autoregressions that allow for nonstationarity and cointegration to investigate the dynamic relation between income and emissions in the period 1970-2008, for all world countries. We consider...
PUBLICATION | 2014 Normalisation factors for Product Environmental Footprint: challenges towards robust inventories of emission and resources Normalisation is an optional step of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that can help appraising the magnitude of a certain impact category relative to that of a reference system. In order to develop normalisation...
