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International codes and standards: challenges and priorities for financial stability.
The smooth functioning of the increasingly interdependent world economy requires the adoption and observance of common rules. In the light of recent economic crises, it has become clear that the effective implementation of codes and standards could contribute to strengthening financial stability at the national level, and thereby, reduce the risks of spillover. To effectively implement standards, a strategy has been defined within the international community and tasks shared out: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank conduct assessments of their member statesâ observance of the main international standards. Numerous hurdles nevertheless remain to be cleared in order to increase the contribution made by codes and standards to prevent financial crises. Emerging economiesâ ownership of codes and standards must be strengthened, which requires these countries to be more closely involved in the definition of standards, and also a more gradual approach in implementing standards to take account of diverse levels of development. The importance given to the assessment of the implementation of codes and standards is a noteworthy step forward in IMF surveillance. It requires increased co-ordination among international financial institutions (IFIs), other standard setting bodies such as the Basel Committee, the OECD and the FATF, and the countries themselves. In addition, countries to be assessed should be more carefully selected, clear priorities should be set in the areas covered by standards and countries should be provided with greater incentives to publish external assessment results. Lastly, the private sector in developed countries could further encourage the implementation of standards by factoring them more fully into its investment strategies, or by supplementing official initiatives in respect of the assessment of observance.
Les revues littĂ©raires dans lâentre-deux-guerres entre France et GrĂšce. RĂ©seaux, transferts culturels et traduction
Pendant lâentre-deux-guerres, certaines revues littĂ©raires grecques adoptent uneattitude hellĂ©nocentriste, tandis que dâautres sâouvrent au contraire largement Ă lâĂ©tranger.Cette ouverture se manifeste bien sĂ»r par la publication dâoeuvres en traduction, maisaussi par un intĂ©rĂȘt grandissant pour les revues Ă©trangĂšres, et en particulier françaises,qui se marque par lâemprunt dâarticles et surtout par la crĂ©ation de rubriques spĂ©cialisĂ©es.Le but de ce travail est de mettre en lumiĂšre lâexistence de relations privilĂ©giĂ©es entrerevues grecques et revues françaises comme vecteurs de transferts culturels âquâil sâagissede la reprise de modĂšles Ă©ditoriaux ou de la circulation de textes, dâidĂ©es ou mĂȘme decollaborateursâ, dâĂ©valuer la part que la traduction prend dans lâĂ©tablissement de cesrelations et enfin de dĂ©terminer si on peut ou non parler dans ces cas de ârĂ©seau derevuesâ, comme cela a Ă©tĂ© fait dans dâautres contextes europĂ©ens
Les revues littĂ©raires dans lâentre-deux-guerres entre France et GrĂšce. RĂ©seaux, transferts culturels et traduction
Pendant lâentre-deux-guerres, certaines revues littĂ©raires grecques adoptent uneattitude hellĂ©nocentriste, tandis que dâautres sâouvrent au contraire largement Ă lâĂ©tranger.Cette ouverture se manifeste bien sĂ»r par la publication dâoeuvres en traduction, maisaussi par un intĂ©rĂȘt grandissant pour les revues Ă©trangĂšres, et en particulier françaises,qui se marque par lâemprunt dâarticles et surtout par la crĂ©ation de rubriques spĂ©cialisĂ©es.Le but de ce travail est de mettre en lumiĂšre lâexistence de relations privilĂ©giĂ©es entrerevues grecques et revues françaises comme vecteurs de transferts culturels âquâil sâagissede la reprise de modĂšles Ă©ditoriaux ou de la circulation de textes, dâidĂ©es ou mĂȘme decollaborateursâ, dâĂ©valuer la part que la traduction prend dans lâĂ©tablissement de cesrelations et enfin de dĂ©terminer si on peut ou non parler dans ces cas de ârĂ©seau derevuesâ, comme cela a Ă©tĂ© fait dans dâautres contextes europĂ©ens
Relations intellectuelles et artistiques entre la France et la GrĂšce au xxe siĂšcle
Octave Merlier (1897-1976) et Roger Milliex (1913-2006) sont deux grands nĂ©ohellĂ©nistes et philhellĂšnes qui ont jouĂ© un rĂŽle dĂ©terminant dans les relations culturelles entre la France et la GrĂšce au XXe siĂšcle, aussi bien par leurs travaux personnels que par les fonctions officielles quâils ont exercĂ©es. Sâils nâont pas hĂ©sitĂ© Ă prendre clairement position Ă titre personnel quand il le fallait, en particulier durant la DeuxiĂšme Guerre mondiale, ils sont surtout connus pour leur contribution essentielle Ă la constitution de rĂ©seaux franco-grecs dâintellectuels et dâartistes, grĂące Ă des initiatives aussi audacieuses quâoriginales. En se faisant les inlassables intermĂ©diaires entre les deux pays, câest Ă©videmment lâidĂ©e dâune culture mĂ©diterranĂ©enne et, plus largement, europĂ©enne, quâils ont servie.Octave Merlier (1897-1976) and Roger Milliex (1913-2006) are two great Neohellenists and Philhellenes who played an instrumental role in cultural relations between France and Greece in the 20th century just as much through their personal work as through the official posts they fulfilled. They never hesitated to unequivocally take a stand in a personal capacity when it was necessary, particularly during the Second World War, but they were known above all for their vital contribution to the forming of Franco-Greek networks of intellectuals and artists thanks to initiatives that were as bold as they were original. Becoming the indefatigable mediators between the two countries, plainly it is the idea of a Mediterranean and, more widely, European culture that they served
Topological Constraints at the Theta Point: Closed Loops at Two Loops
We map the problem of self-avoiding random walks in a Theta solvent with a
chemical potential for writhe to the three-dimensional symmetric
U(N)-Chern-Simons theory as N goes to 0. We find a new scaling regime of
topologically constrained polymers, with critical exponents that depend on the
chemical potential for writhe, which gives way to a fluctuation-induced
first-order transition.Comment: 5 pages, RevTeX, typo
On the signature of tensile blobs in the scattering function of a stretched polymer
We present Monte Carlo data for a linear chain with excluded volume subjected
to a uniform stretching. Simulation of long chains (up to 6000 beads) at high
stretching allows us to observe the signature of tensile blobs as a crossover
in the scaling behavior of the chain scattering function for wave vectors
perpendicular to stretching. These results and corresponding ones in the
stretching direction allow us to verify for the first time Pincus prediction on
scaling inside blobs. Outside blobs, the scattering function is well described
by the Debye function for a stretched ideal chain.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letter
Excluded volume effects on the structure of a linear polymer under shear flow
The effect of excluded volume interactions on the structure of a polymer in
shear flow is investigated by Brownian Dynamics simulations for chains with
size . The main results concern the structure factor of chains of N=300 Kuhn segments, observed at a reduced shear rate
, where is the bare shear rate and
is the longest relaxation time of the chain. At low q, where anisotropic
global deformation is probed, the chain form factor is shown to match the form
factor of the continuous Rouse model under shear at the same reduced shear
rate, computed here for the first time in a wide range of wave vectors. At high
q, the chain structure factor evolves towards the isotropic equilibrium power
law typical of self-avoiding walk statistics. The matching between
excluded volume and ideal chains at small q, and the excluded volume power law
behavior at large q are observed for orthogonal to the main
elongation axis but not yet for along the elongation direction
itself, as a result of interferences with finite extensibility effects. Our
simulations support the existence of anisotropic shear blobs for polymers in
good solvent under shear flow for provided chains are sufficiently
long.Comment: 36 pages, 11 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phy
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