L’élaboration d’un droit international à vocation mondiale n’est pas une entreprise aisée. Après l’échec des Conventions de la Haye de 1964, la Convention de Vienne du 11avril 1980 applicable à la vente internationale de marchandises érige un droit uniforme de la vente applicable à l’échelle mondiale et adapté aux besoins du commerce international. Œuvre de compromis, cette Convention apporte des améliorations aux lacunes des Conventions de la Haye dont elle s’inspire. Elle met en place un droit international de la vente basé sur la recherche du compromis, de la souplesse, de la clarté et de la justice contractuelle. Néanmoins, en dépit de ses améliorations, elle reste elle-même une œuvre lacunaire dont le succès est cependant indéniable. L’étude des rapports qu’elle entretient avec la méthode conflictualiste permet de comprendre les raisons de ce succès. Comportant des normes tout aussi bien issues de la pratique que des différentes traditions juridiques et économiques, notre étude met en lumière l’incomplétude de la CVIM et sa dépendance vis-à vis des règles du droit international privé. Elle met en relief la place de la règle de conflit de lois dans le comblement des lacunes tant internes qu’externes de la CVIM et apporte la confirmation qu’aucun droit international ne peut être effectif sans le concours des règles du droit international privé. Règles qui, sous la pression de la mondialisation et de la puissance de plus en plus croissante des pouvoirs privés économiques sont amenées à évoluer pour mieux correspondre aux besoins du commerce international. Il apparaît dans cette perspective que, le succès de la CVIM, loin d’être uniquement attribué à l’unification des règles matérielles qu’elle opère, est le fruit des évolutions de la méthode conflictualiste. Celles-ci passent par l’affaiblissement de la règle de conflit de droit commun à travers sa subordination à la volonté des parties et aux usages du commerce international. A cela s’ajoute la multiplication des conventions d’unification des règles de conflit à caractère substantiel, la règlementation des conflits de procédures, l’assouplissement des conditions de circulation des jugements étrangers et le développement d’un droit international privé communautaire. / On a world basis, the elaboration of an international law is not an easy task. After the failure of the HAGUE’s conventions on 1964, the Vienna’s Conventions of april 11th, 1980 applicable for the international sales of goods establishes a uniform law suitable for international sales and adapted to the needs of international trade. Born out of a compromise, this Convention brings out improvements to the lacunas within the Hague’s Conventions. The Conventions puts into place an international law of sales based on az quest for compromises, flexibility, clarity and contractual justice. Nevertheless, in spite of its improvements, it remains a lacuna’s work whose success is still undeniable. The study of reports undertaken with the conflicting methods allows us to understand the reasons of its success. Adapting of norms issued from practice as well as from legal and economic traditions, our study brings into light the incompleteness of the CISG and its dependence in regard to the private international laws. It demonstrate the place of the conflict of law in filling up the CISG’s internal and external lacunas and confirms that, no international law can be effective without the assistance of the private laws. Rules, that under the pressure of globalization and the increasing powers of the parties of international trade are brought to evolve to correspond better to the needs of international trade. It so appear that, the success of the CISG, far from solely attributed to its unification of material rules is the result of the evolution of the conflict of law. It passes through the weakening of the common conflict rule through its subordination to the will of parties and the use of international trade. One can add the multiplication of substantial’s conflict law, the regulation of procedure’s conflict, the softening of the recognition conditions of foreign judgments, and the development of communal international private law.

WHO:s klassifikation av funktionstillstånd, funktionshinder och hälsa antogs 2001. ICF är framtaget för att skapa ett gemensamt språk genom olika ICF koder som anses vara användbara både kliniskt och inom forskningen. Genom att länka mätinstrument som redan används, exempelvis självskattningsskalor, till ICF underlättas kommunikation och jämförelser av olika resultat internationellt. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka vilken ämnesspecifik självskattningsskala inom hörselområdet som använts mest inom forskningen mellan åren 2000-2009 och länka den till ICF. Vi använde oss av en systematisk litteratur-studie i form av en totalundersökning för att hitta den mest använda självskattningsskalan inom forskningen. Vid länkningen av den mest använda självskattningsskalan till ICF utförde vi en kvalitativ latent innehållsanalys och länkade självskattningsskalans påståenden systematiskt med hjälp av ICF linking rules. Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) var den mest använda självskattningsskalan inom forskningen mellan år 2000-2009. Länkningsresultatet visade att APHAB utifrån ett ICF perspektiv mäter komponenterna aktivitet och delaktighet, kroppsfunktion och omgivningsfaktorer. Det fortsatta arbetet med utveckling av ett Core Sets for Hearing Loss kommer underlätta användningen både kliniskt och inom forskningen. Ett relevant urval för användning inom hörselområdet gör ICF mer hanterbart, och underlättar därmed användningen av ICF både inom Sverige och internationellt.

This three-essay dissertation focuses on the political economy of fiscal rules in a comparative context and highlights their unintended consequences – an issue that has received relatively little attention in public financial management literature. The first essay examines whether numerical limits on deficits, or balanced budget rules, influence the composition of public spending, particularly in the social sector. Using a combination of fixed effects and GMM regressions on a large panel of developed and developing economies, this essay finds that while deficit targets are effective in improving fiscal balances, they also tend to reduce social spending on health and social protection. This effect is particularly prominent in democratic countries, which often witness overspending problems. Countries that are considering adoption of such rules should carefully examine the effects of these requirements on expenditures that may have long-term positive externalities. Policymakers should explore mechanisms to minimize the distortionary effects of fiscal limits on spending composition. The second essay focusses on whether the adoption of deficit targets by subnational governments in India influenced the composition of public spending. Using a combination of fixed effects and GMM regressions, this essay finds that the adoption of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) legislation by Indian states improved their budget balances significantly. However, the post-FRBM period also witnessed significant cuts in development spending. Furthermore, states have reduced their capital outlay and social spending after the adoption of fiscal responsibility laws. Reduced expenditure on development, and capital projects may affect long-term economic growth, therefore future amendments to the FRBM law should explore mechanisms to minimize the distortionary impacts of fiscal targets on the composition of subnational spending. The third essay shifts attention to the effect of supermajority voting requirements on credit ratings and borrowing costs in the subnational debt market in the United States. Using a combination of generalized ordered logit and linear regression analyses on a sample of general obligation bonds issued by American state governments between 2001 and 2014, this essay finds that states with supermajority voting requirements for tax increases are more likely to receive a lower credit rating on their bonds. Furthermore, on average, the states with a supermajority voting requirement pay a premium of 18 to 21 basis points in true interest cost for their bonds. States that are considering adopting supermajority requirements should consider the unintended effects in terms of lower credit ratings and higher borrowing costs while adopting or designing such fiscal rules. The findings of this dissertation inform the policy debate on the subject and improve our understanding of the impact of fiscal institutions that are being increasingly adopted to regulate the behavior of governments across the world.

La connaissance des règles par les sujets de droit est un impératif et un défi. Elaborées pour les membres de la société, les règles doivent être diffusées dans la sphère sociale pour être reçues par leurs destinataires.Pourtant, leur multiplication, leur complexité, leur instabilité rendent l'acquisition des connaissances difficile alors même que« nul n'est censé ignorer la loi». La nécessité d'assurer l'accès au droit et l'effectivité des règles a conduit au développement de l'obligation d'information sur les règles de droit. Ce dispositif est celui par lequel une personne -le débiteur- porte à la connaissance d'une autre - le créancier - des informations concernant les règles de droit applicables. Ces informations portables parviennent à la connaissance des personnes sans que celles-ci ne les demandent. Cette obligation d'informer est un moyen d'assurer la protection des personnes en situation de faiblesse en les éclairant sur leur environnement juridique pour qu'elles fassent preuve de discernement dans leurs décisions et agissent en vue de la satisfaction de leurs intérêts.Cette thèse propose d'analyser l'obligation d'information sur les règles de droit en exposant sa singularité puis son régime. L'étude invite, plus largement, à s'intéresser aux rapports entre la règle de droit et les citoyens, à rechercher les raisons pour lesquelles la connaissance des règles est considérée comme nécessaire par les pouvoirs publics qui multiplient les obligations d'informer. Elle est ainsi l'occasion de s'interroger sur les conditions de la réalisation des règles de droit et, plus particulièrement, sur le rôle joué par la connaissance des règles dans leur réalisation. / The knowledge of the rules of the law appears to be equally imperative and challenging. The rules of the law are created for the benefit of members of the society. Their vocation is to be spread across the social sphere in order to reach their recipients, the citizens. However the acquisition of this knowledge is proving testing due to its complexity, inconsistency and abundance, yet, all should be aware of the law. The necessity to ensure access to the law and the effectiveness of the rules, has Iead to the development of the obligation of information on the rules of the law. This proposal has for effect to enable a persan "the debtor" to inform another "the creditor" of the informations regarding the rules of the law in effect. These are known as "push informations" which are supplied to anyone without being requested. This obligation of information is a way to ensure the protection of people in a position of weakness, it also provides guidance regarding the legal environment. lt is essential in order to exercise sound judgment to ensure the welfare of the persan.This thesis proposes to analyse the obligation of information on the rules of the law. lt will expose its singularity and organisation. On a wider scale, the study calls on the connection between the rules of law and the citizen. The focus is on the investigation of the reasons the authorities consider, the ever expanding knowledge of the rules, essential. Thereby, it is the opportunity to ponder the conditions of implementing the rules of the law, and more specifically, the role played by the knowledge of the rules in their implementation.

‘If-then’ rule sets are one of the most expressive and human-readable knowledge representations. This thesis deals with optimization and analysis of decision and inhibitory rules for decision tables with many-valued decisions. The most important areas of applications are knowledge extraction and representation. The benefit of considering inhibitory rules is connected with the fact that in some situations they can describe more knowledge than the decision ones. Decision tables with many-valued decisions arise in combinatorial optimization, computational geometry, fault diagnosis, and especially under the processing of data sets. In this thesis, various examples of real-life problems are considered which help to understand the motivation of the investigation. We extend relatively simple results obtained earlier for decision rules over decision tables with many-valued decisions to the case of inhibitory rules. The behavior of Shannon functions (which characterize complexity of rule systems) is studied for finite and infinite information systems, for global and local approaches, and for decision and inhibitory rules. The extensions of dynamic programming for the study of decision rules over decision tables with single-valued decisions are generalized to the case of decision tables with many-valued decisions. These results are also extended to the case of inhibitory rules. As a result, we have algorithms (i) for multi-stage optimization of rules relative to such criteria as length or coverage, (ii) for counting the number of optimal rules, (iii) for construction of Pareto optimal points for bi-criteria optimization problems, (iv) for construction of graphs describing relationships between two cost functions, and (v) for construction of graphs describing relationships between cost and accuracy of rules. The applications of created tools include comparison (based on information about Pareto optimal points) of greedy heuristics for bi-criteria optimization of rules, and construction (based on multi-stage optimization of rules) of relatively short systems of rules that can be used for knowledge representation.

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<p>Within legal positivism, the theory which holds that there is no necessary connection between legal validity and morality, there is dissensus about whether there can be a contingent connection. Inclusive legal positivists suggest that it is possible for morality to play a role in determining a norm’s legal validity while exclusive legal positivists argue for the opposite. This dissertation examines this debate between inclusive legal positivism and exclusive legal positivism focusing on how paying attention to all of the fundamental secondary rules in a legal system can affect arguments about the coherence of either theory. The fundamental secondary rules being the rules which identify other rules, identify authority and authorize changes. I will be demonstrating that three exclusive legal positivist arguments against inclusive legal positivism are unconvincing because of the role that fundamental secondary rules play in our legal systems. Shapiro and Raz offer arguments against inclusive legal positivism based on different important features that they believe the law possesses. However, given their commitment to a particular type of fundamental secondary rule, specifically a directed power, exclusive legal positivism is unable to better capture these important features. Himma suggests that inclusive legal positivism cannot explain how a court can have final authority to determine constitutional cases involving moral criteria. Again, however, we examine what fundamental rules an inclusive legal positivist could employ to explain the phenomenon, we find that exclusive legal positivism is in no better position. At the end of the dissertation, I will suggest why I think continuing with these types of arguments will continue to be fruitless and briefly examine how similar inclusive and exclusive legal positivism are through investigating how one might determine whether a given legal system had an inclusive rule of recognition or exclusive one.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

No / During the subprime crisis, the FDIC has shown, once again, laxity in resolving and closing insolvent institutions. Ronn and Verma (1986) call the tolerance level below which a bank closure is triggered the regulatory policy parameter. We derive a model in which we make this parameter stochastic and bank-specific to infer the stock market view of the regulatory capital forbearance value. For 565 U.S. listed banks during 1990 to 2012, the countercyclical forbearance fraction in capital, most substantial in recessions, could represent 17%, on average, of the market valuation of bank equity and could go as high as 100%.

Disertacijoje tiriamas verslo taisyklių bei jų valdymo sistemų taikymas įmonių verslo valdymo informacinėse sistemose, nagrinėjamos šio taikymo problemos. Pagrindinis tyrimo objektas yra verslo taisyklių ir jų valdymo sistemų taikymas įmonių resursų valdymo (angl. Enterprise Resource Planning, toliau – ERP) sistemose. Darbo tikslas – patobulinti verslo taisyklių valdymo sistemų (angl. Business Rules Management Systems) integraciją į įmonių naudojamas resursų valdymo sistemas ir pasiūlyti integracijos metodą. Naudojant pasiūlytą metodą, verslo taisyklių valdymo sistemas į ERP sistemas galima integruoti naudojant aktyviųjų duomenų bazių valdymo sistemų (toliau – ADBVS) trigerius. Šis metodas tinka, kai kitų integracijos metodų naudojimas neįmanomas arba ekonomiškai nepagrįstas. Jis leidžia verslo taisykles kurti, keisti, valdyti ir diegti centralizuotai. Be to, galimybę keisti bei valdyti verslo taisykles turi ne tik programuotojai, bet ir verslininkai. Tai leidžia sumažinti verslo taisyklių kūrimo, keitimo bei administravimo kaštus. Šis metodas taip pat užtikrina sistemos judrumą. / The dissertation analyses problems of using business rules and business rules management systems in business management information systems of enterprises. The main subject of the study is the use of business rules and business rules management systems in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. The objective of this study is to improve integration of Business Rules Management Systems into current Enterprise Resource Planning systems. With the use of the method proposed for the integration of business rules into ERP systems, business rules may be integrated into ERP systems with the help of active database management system triggers. This method is suitable when the use of other methods of integration is either impossible or not cost-efficient. The method allows to create, edit, manage and install business rules centrally. Moreover, a potential to change and manage the rules is intended not only for programmers, but also for business people. This allows to reduce costs of creation, editing and administration of business rules. Also, this method ensures a better system agility.