28 research outputs found
An assessment of ther G20's initial action terms. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2010/08, September 2010
No full textIn this policy contribution, Bruegel Senior Fellow Nicolas Veron and Stephane Rottier, National Bank of Belgium, score and grade the implementation and follow up of the 47 action items that were outlined in the G20 summit in 2008. This paper complements their policy brief titled 'Not all financial regulation is global' (on this archive)
An assessment of the G20's initial action items
No full textIn this policy contribution, Bruegel Senior Fellow Nicolas Veron and Stephane Rottier, National Bank of Belgium, score and grade the implementation and follow up of the 47 action items that were outlined in the G20 summit in 2008. This paper complements their policy brief titled 'Not all financial regulation is global'.
Not all financial regulation is global
No full textFinancial regulation at global level has been high on the G20 agenda. However, financial multipolarity, with the rise of emerging economies, and its impact on decision-making at global level has made global convergence difficult. In this policy brief, the authors, Bruegel Senior Fellow Nicolas Véron and Stéphane Rottier, National Bank of Belgium, explain why now is the time to focus on building stronger global public institutions, ensuring globally consistent financial information, creating globally integrated capital-markets infrastructure and addressing competitive distortions among global capital-market intermediaries to set the foundation for global harmonisation of all aspects of financial regulation.
Not all financial regulation is global. Bruegel Policy Brief 2010/07, August 2010
No full textThe Financial Crisis has intensified the focus on financial regulation at global level, placing it at the top of the G20 agenda. However, global convergence is made more difficult by financial multipolarity, meaning the increased diversity of political preferences reflecting the rise of emerging economies, and financial reregulation, or the trend towards stronger regulation of financial systems to buttress financial stability. In this Policy Brief Nicolas Véron and Stéphane Rottier suggest policy priorities for global leaders in a context where global harmonisation of all aspects of financial regulation cannot be achieved, but action is needed at global level to prevent fragmentation of capital markets. This paper is complemented by the same authors' "An Assessment of the G20's initial action items. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2010/08, September 2010 (on this archive), which assesses the implementation and follow-up of the 47 action items included in the G20's agenda since its first summit in Washington in 2008
Not All Financial Regulation Is Global
No full textTwo major shifts in the global financial regulatory landscape are likely impeding harmonization of global financial regulation: financial multipolarity, meaning the rise of emerging-market economies such as China and the impact of this trend on decision-making at the global level, and financial reregulation, or the trend toward stronger regulation of financial systems to buttress financial stability, particularly in developed economies. As a result, the ambitious objectives initially set by the G-20 leaders in the wake of the unprecedented financial crisis have so far not resulted in major international breakthroughs, warranting a reconsideration of the global financial regulatory agenda. Consistent regulatory choices across the globe are preferable, but achieving consistency involves difficult political and economic tradeoffs. Continued global capital-market integration can no longer be taken for granted. Policymakers should prioritize four key components to ensure the sustainability of financial integration: (1) strong global public institutions to provide a comprehensive analytical picture, set authoritative standards, and foster and monitor the consistency of regulatory practice; (2) globally consistent financial information; (3) new arrangements to enable and supervise globally integrated capital-market infrastructure; and (4) creating a level playing field for global capital-market intermediaries by addressing competitive distortions.
An assessment of the G20's initial action items
No full textIn this policy contribution, Bruegel Senior Fellow Nicolas Veron and Stephane Rottier, National Bank of Belgium, score and grade the implementation and follow up of the 47 action items that were outlined in the G20 summit in 2008. This paper complements their policy brief titled 'Not all financial regulation is global'
Average looking really pretty model people: New ways of thinking about the fashion model for new times
No full textThis paper will explore how young people appear to be employing more sophisticated ways of thinking about popular media icons that transcend more dichotomous understandings reflected in the literature. It appears that typically popular media icons are conceptualised in the literature in terms of a dichotomy: they influence young people in either negative or positive ways, never both. Young peoples’ ways of thinking about these icons, however, appear to transcend these binaries, and even hold such binaries together in paradoxical ways. As a ‘for instance’ of these new understandings, the paper draws on recent research conducted by the author about the fashion model. The paper examines more specifically how young girls conceptualise the fashion model body in ways that hold together the typically dichotomous ways of thinking about fashion model reflected in the literature. Whereas the literature sets up a discursive binary about the model body as either ‘fatal’ or ‘fun’, young girls draw on more erudite ways of thinking about the model body as both fatal and fun. In light of this, the paper highlights the need to move to more ironic theoretical tools in order to better understand young peoples’ engagement with popular cultural icons in ‘new times’
Fluorometrische en spectrophotometrische bepaling van lactoflavine in micro-organismen
No full textaApplied Science
Detection of feline coronavirus RNA in feces, tissues, and body fluids of naturally infected cats by reverse transcriptase PCR
No full textA nested reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-nPCR) was developed for the detection of feline coronavirus (FCoV) RNA in the feces, tissues, and body fluids of infected cats. The RT-nPCR was targeted to the highly conserved 3'-untranslated region of the viral genome and will detect most, if not all, feline coronaviruses in the field. With the RT-nPCR, FCoV RNA was detected in plasma samples from experimentally infected cats as early as 2 days postinoculation. FCoV RNA was also detected in serum, plasma, or ascitic fluid samples from 14 of 18 cats (78%) with naturally occurring feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). The use of RT-PCR for FIP diagnosis is limited because of the occurrence of apparently healthy FCoV carriers. These asymptomatic cats shed the virus in the feces and, in a number of cases, also had detectable virus in the plasma. Because of the nature of FCoV infections, our RT-PCR assay with plasma or serum cannot be used to establish a definite diagnosis of FIP. However, this assay does provide a new means to identify asymptomatic FCoV carriers. As such, RT-nPCR will be of use to screen cats before their introduction into FCoV-free catteries. Moreover, this assay provides an important tool to study the epidemiology of FCoV.Source type: Electronic(1
