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Credit Rating Agencies and Conflicts of Interest : Comparative Study of the Post-Credit Crisis Regulatory Reforms

Lipszyc, Deborah - 2011

When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...

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Ordre Public and Cross-Border Insolvency : Especially in Relation to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings

Belohlavek, Alexander J. - 2015

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The Global Regulation of 'Fake News' in the Time of Oxymora : Facts and Fictions about the COVID-19 Pandemic as Coincidences or Predictive Programming?

Neuwirth, Rostam J. - 2021

The beginning of the twenty-first century saw an apparent change in language in public discourses characterised by the rise of so-called “essentially oxymoronic concepts”, i.e., mainly oxymora and paradoxes. In earlier times, these rhetorical figures of speech were largely reserved for the...

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The World Bank Doing Business Reports - Regulation and Change in China and Australia

Bath, Vivienne - 2008

economies around the world in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. The Reports focus on business regulation by looking at regulations that …Under the auspices of the World Bank, "Doing Business" reports have been issued in relation to business activity in … measure business regulation and various types of regulated activities in a number of identified sub-indices (now 10) and to …

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Using Central Counterparties to Limit Global Financial Crises

Henkel, Christoph - 2020

Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...

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Climate Change, Conflict and Security : International Law Challenges

Saul, Ben - 2014

Alarming predictions have been made about the potential for climate change to fuel war and other forms of violent or social conflict, particularly due to resource scarcities (including food, water and energy) driven by climate change. This article first charts the likely security risks arising...

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Protecting Refugees in the Global 'War on Terror'

Saul, Ben - 2008

This paper focuses on the growing pressure to automatically exclude suspected terrorists from refugee status since the late 1990s including exclusion based on mere membership of terrorist organizations. As the first part of this paper shows, such pressure has emanated from the UN General...

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Forgiving Terrorism : Trading Justice for Peace, or Imperiling the Peace?

Saul, Ben - 2015

There has been considerable ambivalence in the response of the international community and different national governments towards the problem of how to respond to individual terrorist acts and sustained campaigns of terrorist violence. Responses vacillate between a desire to punish and deter...

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The Trust in Indicators : Measuring Human Rights

Rosga, AnnJanette - 2008

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The Doctrine of Odious Debt in International Law : A Restatement

King, Jeff - 2007

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