The proposed risk sensitive minimum requirements of the new Basel capital accord have raised concerns about possible (acceleration of) procyclical behaviour of banking, which might threaten macroeconomic stability.This article analyses the interaction between business cycles and banks over the past two decades for 26 industrial countries.As expecte
The Rhetoric of Paintings: Towards a History of Balinese Ideas, Imaginings and Emotions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Western historical scholarship has taught us much about Southeast Asia in the period between 1800 and 1940.This was a time when the insistent, intensifying and LIQUID BLEACH transforming influence of Dutch colonial society and its culture became widespread in Bali and more broadly in the archipelago.Much too has been written about the analytical fr
Re-evaluating Palermo: The case of Burmese women as Chinese brides
The definition of human trafficking as set in the Trafficking Protocol (also known as the Palermo Protocol) functionally centres most of the response to the phenomenon in the criminal justice system.This occludes many of the sociopolitical determinants of vulnerability that leads to trafficking.It also discourages any real debate about the various