Educational economies

Contemporary public discussion of and policy formation with respect to higher education pay scant attention to the history and structure of the modern university. In part this is forgivable, since educational historians deal almost exclusively with schooling to the neglect of any wider assessment of formal education within the public sphere. Nonetheless, personal ‘experience’, much less sheer prejudice, is no substitute for an understanding of ‘higher learning’. This review essay considers the outline history provided by Robert Stevens’ From University to Uni and suggests that we are now entering an era of a ‘postmodern’ university whose purposes are both incoherent and implausible.     

The Empirical Analysis of Merger Remedies＇ Influence on Prices in Russia

One of the most important instruments of antitrust regulation in Russia becomes behavioral merger remedies. At the same time, price requirements account for an essential part of such remedies. The issuance of remedies is expected to restrict price increase and, simultaneously, protect consumers from the welfare decrease. On the other hand, however, price remedies may produce a negative effect at the price level. This article explores how behavioral merger remedies of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation affect the price level. The main assumption implies that issuance of price remedies by antimonopoly authority may cause downward price rigidity as a result of ratchet effect or tacit collusion. The article includes analysis of 11 mergers with behavioral remedies during the period of 2006-2010 and price dynamics for 14 products. In the course of the research the hypothesis that the issuance of price remedies brought about downward price rigidity was not confirmed.     

The gradual transformation? The incremental dynamics of macroprudential regulation

This article focuses on the transformatory potential of macroprudential ideas following the financial crash of 2008, examining how they are being mediated by existing institutional contexts and how and why the task of building a new body of technical macroprudential knowledge is proceeding slowly. It is argued that the movement toward a form of macroprudential regulation has a distinctly incremental dynamic that means any macroprudential transformation will be a gradual process that is likely to span a decade or more. Using Peter Hall's framework of three orders of policy change across substantive and temporal dimensions, the article argues that the macroprudential ideational shift can be compared to third order change. In this sense, it was intellectually radical and took place rapidly in a period of around six months. However, intellectual radicalism does not automatically translate into a radical change in regulatory practice, because of a variety of countervailing political, institutional, and informational variables. In this respect, the task of developing first and second order macroprudential policy is proving to be a much more politically contested process. Furthermore, macroprudential policy is being developed by cautious technocrats who rely on the gradual accumulation of data and evidence to justify policy. The result is a distinctly incremental dynamic to macroprudential policy development that displays many of the features of a process that historical institutionalists refer to as “layering.”     

媒体技术在高职英语教学中应用的问题与思考

多媒体技术的应用正深刻地影响着传统的高职英语教学模式.当今,一个高校多媒体教学水平的高低已经是衡量其整体教学水平、教学质量高低的重要指标.从多媒体技术在高职英语教学中应用的特点入手,分析其作为辅助教学手段的优势,针对高职英语教学中多媒体技术应用的普遍问题,对高职英语教师提出合理化建议和思考.     

预防、惩戒与修复:环境侵害法律规制体系的重构

环境污染行为与环境破坏行为导致的损害都属于环境侵害,需要建立一个完善的系统加以法律规制,从预防、惩戒、修复三大环节入手,给生态环境提供有力的法治保障。预防体系着重环境风险的行政监管,为环境保护构筑第一道防线;惩戒体系强调刑罚与行政处罚在适用层面的可操作性,对环境侵害起到应有的震慑作用;修复体系则事关环境能否可持续发展,通过环境公益诉讼的渠道,让民事赔偿能在环境修复上产生良好效果。     

Oil Spill Causation and the Deepwater Horizon Spill

The April 20, 2010, BP Deepwater Horizon blowout riveted citizen and elected officials' attention on coastal oil spills in ways not seen since the ill‐fated 1989 Exxon Valdez crisis. A commonly voiced lament included why was the tragedy not prevented? Why the seemingly poor safety practices and who is to blame? Could a spill of such catastrophic proportion happen elsewhere in the future? Applying a spill prevention causation framework developed through the examination of other major near‐shore incidents over a 23‐year period, the author finds Deepwater Horizon exhibited a pattern of shortcomings evident in these other spills. These shortcomings are rooted in policy imperfections, a weak regulatory regime, organizational deviance in lieu of integrity, and interorganizational structure deficiencies.     

竞价排名的法律规制

搜索引擎以其全球性、实时性等特点在网络经济时代发展极为迅速,而基于此产生的竞价排名行为,在法学领域还是一个新生事物,对竞价排名如何定性及规制成了司法实践中的难点。应对竞价排名进行法律规制,可全面保护各方权利人的合法权益。     

忧虑的放大与程序的缺失——基于程序视角的民事诉讼法律监督

民事诉讼中的法律监督牵涉到审判机关、检察机关的权力配置与程序运行。从实践的角度分析,对法律监督有损审判独立的忧虑被无端地放大,而程序的缺失又直接制约着民事诉讼中法律监督效能的发挥。涉诉信访与法律监督的制度整合既有利于缓解涉诉信访的压力又弥合了法律监督程序的缺失。同时,改变对法官违法的内部惩戒机制,将惩戒程序的启动、惩戒结果的决定与被惩戒对象所在系统相分离将有助于对民事诉讼中审判人员违法行为的预防与惩戒,最终有助于法律监督的目的即司法公正。     

电子商务环境下证券相关法律问题及其监管研究

电子商务下电子化证券发展极为迅速,但电子化证券交易,仍然是处于不断摸索发展完善的阶段,电子化证券交易对于传统的金融经济制度是严重的冲击,学者对电子化证券交易领域的研究尚未完善。电子化证券交易的发展导致了法律和监管一些新的需要解决的现实问题。为了加强电子商务下对证券的监管,需要进一步完善电子商务下证券活动相关的法律体系,提高电子商务下证券活动相关的安全技术,明确电子商务下证券的发行和监管体制,规范证券交易主体的信用法律制度。     

Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises

Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists’ claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience of the Southeast Asian market economies in confronting comparatively the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98 and the global financial crisis of 2008–09.