Connecting National Safety Nets: The Dialectics of the Basel II Contracting Process

Basel II consists of supervisory guidelines negotiated by representatives of central banks and national regulatory commissions that were members of the Basel committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The BCBS is itself a regulatory response to globalization, which is connecting national safety nets in market-driven ways. A country’s financial safety net is a social contract established by short-lived agents for principals in long-lived economic sectors. Restraints placed on the authority of the BCBS members to contract for their principals by domestic politics explains: why Basel II authorizes individual countries to implement the agreement in markedly different ways; why US implementation of Basel II ran into so much doubt, controversy, and delay; and how the implementation debate set small and large banks and the Federal Reserve and other federal regulators against one another.

论政府在农产品质量安全保障中的作用

随着三聚氰胺等农产品质量问题的再次出现,我国农产品质量安全问题已引起全球的广泛关注,政府在农产品质量安全监管中的职责和作为受到严峻的挑战。文章基于农产品质量安全市场失灵和政府职责的理论,就政府在农产品质量安全保障中的作用进行分析,从宏观和微观的视角,对政府在农产品质量安全保障中的主要作用进行定位。     

大型矿井动力操控员工安全心理参数探究

随着矿产资源不断向地层深部开采,矿井亦不断延伸,尤其是千米深井日渐增多,矿井动力提升速度和提升功能不断加快、增强,矿井数字化水平提高,对矿井动力操控员工的心理反应能力、注意能力、时空判断能力等一系列心理素质水平的要求不断增强。员工的反应准确性、注意集中和分配能力及情绪稳定性和人格状况是构成影响员工操控行为安全稳定的核心心理品质。探究矿井动力提升系统操控员工的各项安全心理阈限值及其安全心理参数标准,建立员工安全心理选拔准入制,是保障矿井人一机和谐安全运行的重要措施。     

《食品质量管理学》实践教学改革研究

食品质量管理学是食品质量与安全专业的必修课程,为提高实践教学质量,培养学生的实践能力,从教学内容、教学方法、实践操作能力及考核方式等方面,对食品质量管理学实践教学改革进行了探讨。     

当代农民工生活状况分析

当代农民工的生活面临着很多困境,如工资拖欠、子女教育问题等。这些状况的存在,不仅给农民工带来了经济损失和精神痛苦,也对正常的社会经济秩序带来了不良影响,引起了政府的高度重视。     

保障国家粮食安全的对策建议

农田水利是粮食生产的命脉,是保障粮食安全不可或缺的重要前提.保障我国粮食安全,必须首先重视农田水利发展中的根本性问题,明确农田水利设施的公益性,创新农田水利公共制度安排.其次,要在引入市场化供给机制的同时,加强政府配套制度支撑,完善投入稳定增长机制,加大中央对土地出让收益的统筹力度,增加水利建设中长期贷款,并给予适当财政贴息,鼓励水利企业上市融资,建立“一事一议”激励约束机制,打破市场失灵与政府失灵双重困境.再次,要加强提高水资源利用效率的技术支撑,推广农业节水灌溉技术,提高用水效率和效益,实现水利跨越式发展.     

The effect of information on consumers' willingness to pay for natural and organic chicken

This study examined the effect of definitions for organic and natural on willingness to pay a premium for organic over natural chicken. Data were collected using surveys and experimental auctions that were conducted before and after information was presented. Before information, approximately two‐thirds of participants inaccurately equated the requirements of natural with those for organic. After information, nearly 50% increased their premium, while 30% decreased their premium. Logistic regression results showed that consumers who had overestimated the requirements for natural were most likely to have an increased premium after information, with significantly higher bids for organic. For those who decreased their premium after information, awareness of consuming genetically modified (GM) foods was a key variable. The non‐genetically modified (non‐GM) requirement of organic appears to be of low value to some consumers. Overall, consumer confusion regarding organic and natural standards may be having substantial impacts on the two markets.     

Consumer coping strategies: a study of consumers committed to eating local

This paper deals with consumer coping strategies when consumers experience difficulties in implementing an innovation. The particular setting for exploring this issue is a group of consumers in Michigan who are committed to eating local. The paper explores how these consumers cope or balance their commitment to eating local with the constraints they face on buying and preparing local food Following a literature review of coping strategy and consumer coping strategies in relation to innovations, the paper presents the results of three focus groups conducted with members of a Student Organic Farm, a food cooperative and a Slow Food Convivium. The consumers we interviewed mostly adopt problem‐centred, confrontative strategies: they change their food‐consumption habits including shopping, purchasing, cooking, storing and obviously, eating. None of these changes are easy to implement, and most require re‐allocations of time as well as trade‐offs to overcome time and cost barriers. In return, some of these consumers feel empowered. This study allows us to offer a working hypothesis that the process is dynamic: the more committed consumers are, the more they adopt problem‐centred, confrontative strategies and forget more fatalist emotion‐centred or avoidance strategies. These findings contribute to literature on consumers' coping strategies and suggest future research avenues.     

岩滩水电公司电缆安全隐患整治介绍

大唐岩滩水力发电有限责任公司机组设备电缆及电缆桥架由于历史原因,在运行中存在严重的安全隐患,经过对电缆走向及电缆桥架层次结构重新设计改造,对旧电缆重新整理敷设,提高了电缆防火水平,消除了电缆在发生火灾的安全隐患,为解决老发电企业的旧电缆问题提供了方法和经验。     

那旺水库除险加固设计

那旺水库投入运行至今已50多年,水库设施已严重老化。那旺水库加固实施后将排除众多安全隐患,提高工程安全度,为北江乡农业生产和人民生命财产提供可靠保障,充分发挥水库的综合利用效益及较好的社会效益,为防洪保护区的社会、经济、环境的可持续发展创造有利条件.