Harmonization: Myth and Ceremony - A Comment

2 Policy as Myth and Ceremony ?

We examine the antecedents and consequences of creating a national stock exchange among developing countries, a core technology of financial globalization. We study local conditions and global institutional pressures in the rapid spread of exchanges since the 1980s, and examine how conditions at the point of adoption affected their subsequent vibrancy. Little prior research connects the process...

Policy as Myth and Ceremony? the Global Spread of Stock Exchanges, 1980–2005

We examine the antecedents and consequences in developing countries of creating a national stock exchange, a core technology of financial globalization. We study local conditions and global institutional pressures in the rapid spread of exchanges since the 1980s and examine how conditions at the point of adoption affected exchanges’ subsequent vibrancy. Little prior research connects the proces...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...

Secret Ceremony

Ceremony Analysis: Strengths and Weaknesses

We investigate known security flaws in the context of security ceremonies to gain an understanding of the ceremony analysis process. The term security ceremonies is used to describe a system of protocols and humans which interact for a specific purpose. Security ceremonies and ceremony analysis is an area of research in its infancy, and we explore the basic principles involved to better underst...