Policy assessment of an EU wide flat area CAP payments system

The CAP in Disarray: EU Commission Proposes Basic Direct Payments to EU Farmers

EU-wide Distributional Effects of EU Direct Payments Harmonization analyzed with CAPRI

The interface between EU competition policy and the CAP

OceanStore: An Extremely Wide{Area Storage System

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers, data is protected through redundancy and cryptographic techniques. To improve performance, data is allowed to be cached anywhere, anytime. Finally, monitoring of usage patterns allows adaptation to regional outage...

Public Policy and the Payments System

It is a great pleasure to be here in Melbourne to deliver the Ian Little Memorial Lecture. I worked with Ian when we were both young recruits in the Research Department of the Reserve Bank in the early 1980s. I remember an easygoing young man with a cheerful disposition, and a mop of curly dark hair. Even then, Ian was a clear thinker with a strong commitment to good public policy. So it was no...