Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds

Scholarship on regulating global finance emphasizes the importance of national and bureaucratic interests, but less attention has been devoted to epistemic sources of regulatory conflict. We address this by analyzing the failure of regulators to agree tougher rules for large investment funds after the 2008 crisis. The article suggests this outcome was the result of epistemic contestation between prudential regulators and securities regulators, rooted in divergent interpretive “frames.” We show that US and EU prudential regulators pushed for entity-based regulation of investment funds by escalating the issue to global standard-setting bodies. But this was successfully resisted by securities regulators that exercised epistemic authority through recursive practices—appeals to expertise, jurisdictional claims, and alliance building—to defend their transaction-based approach. The article demonstrates how an interpretivist perspective can provide new insights into inter-agency conflict and regulatory disputes in other policy fields.     

新体制下高职院校投入制度改革研究

建立科学而完备的教育投入制度是我国当前十分重要的改革任务,应该提高到中华民族兴衰和发展的高度来认识。我国教育体制改革提出“按照新的管理体制和运行机制办学”的基本原则,国家对高等职业教育给予了积极的支持和高度的关注,但要切实解决好高职教育投入的制度、路径与方式等问题,建立可行、稳定而有效的经费投入体系仍然是一个既重大又迫切,并且是短时间内难以解决的问题。     

Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action

In the fallout of the 2008 crisis, macroprudential policy has been installed as the policy remedy against future financial instability, a primary focus being developments in the real estate sector. With house prices consistently rising in the EU since 2014, causing alarm among macroprudential supervisory bodies, a core question of EU regulatory governance is how far macroprudential bodies have been capable of bringing about countercyclical actions against the build-up of such vulnerabilities. This paper investigates this question using a novel dataset of macroprudential intensity coded for the 17 EU countries that experienced real estate vulnerabilities post-euro crisis. Specifically, it asks which configuration of conditions account for the (in)capacity of countries to impose stringent countercyclical regulations against housing booms? Using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis technics coupled with qualitative analysis of country cases using expert interviews, we find that the absence of political salience of homeownership and the political independence of macroprudential authorities to be crucial conditions that jointly explain countercyclical macroprudential activity. These findings, which show two pathways to action have implications for the capacity of the EU to prevent future crises and future reform of the EU prudential framework.     

制定《河南省艾滋病防治条例》的设想(下)

河南省日益严峻的艾滋病形势要求必须尽快制定艾滋病防治条例。条例的主要内容应包括立法目的、适用范围、主管部门、预防与控制、监测与疫情报告、治疗与救助、权利与义务、法律责任等。在制定条例时,应注意突出地方特色和提高立法质量。     

虚拟货币的国际监管:以反洗钱为起点走出自发秩序

虚拟货币诞生已逾十年,其并未对现有法定货币体系造成冲击,因此,主要国家货币当局并未对个人持有并使用虚拟货币进行禁止。同时,由于虚拟货币是否适合普通投资者并没有定论,主要国家证券监管当局也并未正面注册或审批任何一种面向公众投资者发行的虚拟货币或与其挂钩的金融产品。但是,投机、欺诈和严重的洗钱问题促使各国当局不得不以实质性...     

职业教育的发展趋势与成人高等职业教育

职业教育是以特定职业导向的教育.职业教育是工业革命的产物.职业教育呈现出两个发展趋势:职业教育的高等化和职业教育的成人化.在这两个趋势的共同作用下,职业教育形成了一个新的门类:成人高等职业教育.成人高等职业教育具备职业教育、高等教育、成人教育的一般特征,但最本质的特征存在于几个不同要素的综合之中.     

积极应对金融危机,为了更好的生活——德国五金工会(IGM)的行动计划

德国五金工会(IGM)明确指出在过去20年间,由于放任自由、不受管制的金融市场恣意发展,潜伏的危机和风险不断增加,导致了金融市场的完全失控.全球性金融危机的爆发,进一步表明危机治理不可能通过市场自身得以实现,恢复经济正常良好运转离不开政府的调控和社会综合治理.为就业岗位提供安全保障、推行民主参与、完善资本和金融市场的政策管理规定、减少投机行为和防止利润流失、税收失控等措施,都是积极应对金融危机的有力举措.     

利用网络平台创新高校思想政治教育

虚拟网络技术与应用在高校的飞速发展,给高校思想政治教育工作带来机遇和挑战。高校思想政治工作者要利用网络平台创新网络心理教育方法、网络文化建设、网络监控方法等,从而切实加强高校学生思想政治教育工作。     

优化中国能源结构的政策研究

大力调整和优化中国能源结构,要在进一步实施节能优先战略的基础上,实行能源多元化、清洁化发展。陔史主要从健全政策法规,保障能源结构优化;完善市场机制,推动能源结构优化;运用先进能源技术,实现能源结构优化三个方面提出了中国能源结构优化的政策措施。     

“民间反扒”的法律解读

“民间反扒联盟”是近几年在全国一些大中城市兴起的一种民间公益性组织。它的诞生和发展在一定程度上可以威慑和遏制城市中的各类扒窃犯罪活动,可以弘扬社会正气,彰显社会的正义力量,具有存在的合法性基础。但“民间反扒行为”也出现了许多问题,需要通过法律和制度等各种规范加以规制和引导,“民间反扒联型”要有效地开展工作和永久地持续下去,需要加强各种职业风险的防范与保障。