Critical Reflections on Bank Bail-ins

Bank Bonuses and Bail-Outs

This paper shows that bonus contracts may arise endogenously as a response to agency problems within banks, and analyzes how compensation schemes change in reaction to anticipated bail-outs. If there is a risk-shifting problem, bail-out expectations lead to steeper bonus schemes and even more risk-taking. If there is an effort problem, the compensation scheme becomes flatter and effort decrease...

Critical Reflections on Regulation

Do Bail Information Schemes Really Affect Bail Decisions?

Bail Information Schemes gather and provide information on a defendant’s community ties to the court. Past evaluations have concluded that schemes are effective because more defendants are granted bail. However, the evaluations include possible confounds and other limitations, thus threatening the validity of their findings. They are also incompatible with research showing that magistrates do n...

Effective Environmental Assessment Tools - critical reflections on concepts and practice

This article discusses the conceptual basis of the research in the MiSt-programme looking especially at the concept of tools and a simple model for the interaction of tools with their context of application and implicit background factors.

Critical reflections on the principle of beneficence in biomedicine

Medical ethics as a scholarly discipline and a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, anthropology and sociology. As such there are a number of values in medical ethics such as autonomy, non-maleficence, confidentiality, dignity, honest...