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The injustice of needless pretrial detention has been the focus of much attention in the last few years. Recently the Institute on the Operation of Pretrial Release Projects and the 1963 National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice have provided forums for the discussion of the effects of and alternatives to detention. Under the impetus of such forums and the pressure of jurisdictions seeki...

This paper attempts to evaluate whether the Cyprus adjustment program signed with the Troika was a necessary precondition to correct the imbalances in the economy in 2013. Although the factors leading to these imbalances appeared to be of exogenous nature, it is argued that the underlying problems were homegrown. In 2008, the Cyprus economy presented a satisfactory picture. However a careful as...

INTRODUCTION In light of overwhelming evidence that access to sterile injection equipment reduces incidence of injection-attributable bloodborne disease without encouraging drug use, many localities have authorized sterile syringe access programs (SAPs), including syringe exchange and pharmacy-based initiatives. Even where such interventions are clearly legal, many law enforcement officers are ...

according to the articles 169 to 179 of the civil judgment enforcement law, the enforcement of the foreign judgment in the iranian law is based on the reciprocal act. but extension of international relations in the world today, above all in the commercial domain, requires that enforcement of foreign judgment be accepted after obtaining its correctness conditions based on res judicata. therefore...

This paper argues that market price sensitive capital regulation together with financial regulator’s bailout policy can induce banks to herd by investing in highly correlated asset ex ante, thus increase the likelihood of systemic risk ex post. The paper follows Acharya and Yorulmazer’s (2007) study of “Too Many to Fail” problem in a twobank model. They argue that in order to reduce the social ...

The crisis of 2007–2008 was a crisis of collateral. Since then, financial market participants – particularly in the euro area and the United States – have shown an increased appetite for secured lending. In short-term bank funding markets, there has been a pronounced shift towards repurchase arrangements. And covered bonds have gained in popularity in long-term funding markets. The cyclical fli...

This paper analyzes the effects of a “too-big-to-fail” policy, modelled as a higher bail-out probability from the government for some bank, on the behavior of the privileged bank as well as on the remaining banking sector. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the impact on the large bank’s risk-taking is shown to depend on the opacity of banks, i. e., the particular information structure of the mod...

As someone with a background in both public health research and homeless services, I was recently approached by a group of voluntary agencies working with homeless families to assist them in conducting a research project to investigate the mental and physical health status of children passing through their services. The personnel involved were alarmed by what they saw as the largely undiagnosed...