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Recovery and Resolution Banks for Systemically Important Financial Institutions ('Living Wills') as a Catalyst for Action
An investigation into the effects of solvent content on the image quality and stability of ink jet digital prints under varied storage conditions
Increasing numbers of galleries, museums and archives are including ink jet printed materials into their collections, and therefore displays. There is evidence that the instability of these prints is such that images can suffer deterioration in print quality or in extreme cases, a loss of information over an extended period of time. This is shorter than the period typically required for perceptible deterioration to occur in many other paper-based artworks. The image stability of prints is affected by a number of factors some of which have already been studied. However the role played by the ink solvent in the loss of image quality has yet to be explored. This paper will outline research being undertaken to investigate the effects of solvent content which may increase/promote the loss in image quality of the hard copy prints when stored or displayed under a range of temperature and humidity conditions
EU children in Brexit Britain: reânegotiating belonging in nationalist times
© 2019 The Authors. International Migration © 2019 IOM This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo-assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at children's ways of accommodating their parentsâ values of mobility, multilingualism and transnationalism with the revived nationalist logic now dominant. The article argues for renewed scrutiny into the role of public discourses on migrantsâ experiences, which illuminate the redrawing of the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion at moments of crisis
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Technical breakthough: delivering Britain's higher level skills
This paper makes ten recommendations that will increase the chances of the Governmentâs policy on vocational and educational achieving its objectives.
It provides a case study of how Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is reshaping the contribution a university can make to âleft-behindâ localities and contains a proposal for a pilot of the Lifelong Learning Loan Accounts
A new perspective on the ripple effect in the UK housing market: Comovement, cyclical subsamples and alternative indices
An alternative perspective is provided on the existence of a ripple effect in the UK housing market. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis involves consideration of information on the changes in house prices to which the hypothesis of house price diffusion posited by the ripple effect relates, rather than their levels. In an examination of changes in house prices in London relative to other regions of the UK, directional forecasting methods are employed to establish the extent of the relationship between geographical proximity and comovement across the three month window provided by quarterly data. Consequently, the analysis provides a direct examination of the ripple effect which refers to changes in prices rather than the convergence of levels which has become a feature of the empirical literature. The literature is extended further by both the application of dating techniques to perform the analysis across cycles and phases of cycles (recovery and recessionary periods) in the UK housing market, and the use of data from two alternative house price index providers. Striking results in support of the presence of a ripple effect are noted, particularly for the less commonly considered Halifax price index where the most significant results for comovement with London are exhibited by its contiguous regions. In addition, the cyclical subsamples considered indicate comovement to be greater during upturns, rather than downturns in the market. This is consistent with previous research showing London to correct â that is, exhibit differing behaviour to other regions â during downturns
Consumer credit information systems: A critical review of the literature. Too little attention paid by lawyers?
This paper reviews the existing literature on consumer credit reporting, the most extensively used instrument to overcome information asymmetry and adverse selection problems in credit markets. Despite the copious literature in economics and some research in regulatory policy, the legal community has paid almost no attention to the legal framework of consumer credit information systems, especially within the context of the European Union. Studies on the topic, however, seem particularly relevant in view of the establishment of a single market for consumer credit. This article ultimately calls for further legal research to address consumer protection concerns and inform future legislation
The Real (Social) Experience of Monetary Policy
This paper takes a socio-economic approach to considering money in relation to real experience, focusing on the real effects of monetary policy. While most of the economics literature focuses on interest-rate setting as the core tool of monetary policy, we focus here instead on signalling by the central bank as a mechanism for influencing expectations and behaviour in conditions of uncertainty. This involves addressing the social-conventional expectations among different groups (a mechanism for dealing with uncertainty) applied to their particular ways of framing the real and financial sectors. Actual credit conditions faced by borrowers in turn are the outcome of the conventional view among banks as a result of their framing and the influence of central bank signalling. These relations between central banks, banks and the non-bank public in turn normally rest on long-established relations of trust. We consider the real effects of monetary policy in circumstances where trust has broken down
Review debate: we need human rights not nationalism 'lite': globalization and British solidarity
The article explores the relationship of multiculturalism to social solidarity. The multicultural nature of Britain is accepted as a welcome reality but certain problems in relation to the development of multiculturalism in Britain are acknowledged. Various approaches to buttress or replace multiculturalism are reviewed. These are: a strengthened and/or reconstituted nationalism (`Britishness'); human rights; and social equality. The issue of citizenship recurs throughout. It is argued that a combined emphasis on human rights and greater social equality offer a better basis than nationalism for strengthening solidarity in Britain, especially in the longer term. Sociological theory offers a fruitful if strangely neglected starting point for understanding social solidarity. I draw critically on Durkheim and Marx to obtain some objective perspective on this controversial matter. Copyright 2007 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution
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