VOLUME 3(4) • 2008
LAW, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. Wade looks at the development of preventative civil measures with criminal sanctions and the ways in which they are influencing criminal law. Salako remarks that since its inception in the late 19th century, strict criminal liability has been used to grapple with regulatory offences. Wilso..
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE JURIDICAL THEORY OF RESPONSIBILITY A THEORY OF?
ABSTRACT. Ruiz maintains that the local laws of the responsibilities of civil servants tend to employ the generic expression of civil servant. Ricoeur remarks that current sentencing practices and forms of rehabilitation prevent the condemned person from acknowledging fault. Raff notes that the conc..
CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE
ABSTRACT. Wade looks at the development of preventative civil measures with criminal sanctions and the ways in which they are influencing criminal law. Salako remarks that since its inception in the late 19th century, strict criminal liability has been used to grapple with regulatory offences. Wilso..
A STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR ADDRESSING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
ABSTRACT. Pohle and Hittner observe that, in its most rudimentary form, CSR can be viewed as compliance with the laws and regulations set by the public sector: as companies have gone global the costs of compliance have risen rapidly. DTI-UK holds that CSR is about companies acting voluntarily to rai..
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, OPEN-ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS, AND ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUPS
ABSTRACT. OECD holds that the potential gains in terms of higher incomes are large. Haden points out that the concept of self-organization provides a framework for understanding how systems grow and develop over time that is inclusive of internal constraints. Kaludis and Stine hold that institutions..
THE RELIABILITY OF MICROSOFT EXCEL
ABSTRACT. Wu encrypts a Microsoft Office (Word or Excel) document with a password and saves that file. Knüsel’s study deals with the reliability of Microsoft Excel XP for statistical purposes, and shows that Excel can compute negative variances. Padala holds that XML provides a convenient way of rep..
ADVERSE CASH FLOW SHOCKS, INFLATION EXPECTATIONS, AND MONETARY POLICY CREDIBILITY
ABSTRACT. Fuss and Vermeulen test if during times of adverse cash flow shocks, sensitivity to cash flow is higher. Antràs et al. demonstrate that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monito..
GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION, INFLATION, AND MARKET ECONOMIES
ABSTRACT. Gaburro and O’Boyle examine experience with global financial integration to identify norms for evaluating economic globalization. Deetz points out that a market economy does not equal democracy, and that a market economy cannot assure democratic representation. Sousa and Zaghini explicitly..
LONG-RUN INFLATION VARIABILITY AND THE IMPACT OF ALTERNATIVE POLICY RULES ON THE VOLATILITY OF INFLATION
ABSTRACT. Bhattacharya says that country-specific studies indicate that switching to inflation targeting (IT) has sometimes been followed by a dramatic reduction in inflation. Gavin et al. calculate the term structure of inflation uncertainty in New Keynesian models when the monetary authority adopt..
BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
ABSTRACT. Bhattacharya contends that the Indian experience could be of help in expanding our knowledge on two problems: the first relates to the choice of monetary policy strategy by a central bank. Duarte holds that a flexible exchange rate regime is supported by optimal monetary policies when the ..
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT. Tillmann and Goddard investigate strategic management accounting in a large multinational company in Germany, and are concerned with how SMA is perceived and used in practice. Thrane discusses and reconceptualises the role and practice of accounting in dynamic and complex business networks..
COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN THE EU
ABSTRACT. Strzêbicka analyse changes on the EU fruit and vegetables market in terms of the enlargement. Thode Jacobsen maintains that the EU market for organic products is growing. The growth is primarily driven by increasing availability and assortment of organic products through the broadening of ..