Financial collateral and capital adequacy requirements

To what extent can the use of financial collateral as a credit risk mitigant affect capital adequacy requirements? This article considers the current and future capital adequacy regimes applying to credit institutions as they relate to collateralised transactions.collateral capital requirements banks

Bridging the gap between judges and the public? A multi-method study.

This article examines the gap between dutch judges and the public in terms of preferred severity of sentences. It focuses on one particular explanation usually given for the gap: the lack of case-specific, detailed information on the part of the general public. Findings from three studies are reported and combined: (a) a survey among a sample from the dutch population (n = 2,127), (b) a sentencing experiment with judges in dutch criminal courts (n = 180), and (c) a sentencing experiment, using the same case materials as with judges, but now with a sample from the dutch population (n = 917). Results show that providing the public with detailed case information indeed reduces severity of sentences preferred. Moreover, those members of the public who were given short and unbalanced newspaper reports preferred much harsher sentences than did those who were given the full case files. However, despite such a reduction in punitiveness as a result of information, the public’s preferred sentences remain much more punitive than judges’ sentences pertaining to exactly the same case files

Als de waarheid eraan moet geloven: Alledaagse bedreigingen voor waarheidsvinding in het strafproces

Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, accountability, and effectivit