Scholars are paying a great deal of attention to the complexity of the stories being created for print, film, television, and the Web. In this essay, we expand on the concept of polymediated narrative complexity in contemporary storyworlds to explore how external discourses influence their legacies and interpretations. Our exploration of the relationship between complex narratives and the discourses in which they participate focuses on one television genre and starts with one television program: Kolchak: The Night Stalker. We argue that Kolchak remains an important and ever-evolving discursive fragment within the supernatural drama genre.

In my diploma thesis, I aim to define and compare models of financial market supervision used in the European Union member states. Furthermore, I try to analyze the development of these states between 2001 and 2015. Lastly, I attempt to predict their future development. The thesis contains a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part consists of three chapters and the last two chapters are practical. In the first chapter, I attempt to describe the financial market and provide a theoretical definition of supervision. Next, I focus on regulation, supervisors and supervised entities. Finally, I also deal with the purpose and aims of financial supervision. A well-defined terminology is crucial to any study involving financial market supervision. In the second chapter, I discuss three basic models of financial market supervision I recognize in the European Union member states. In the third chapter, I focus on the role of the financial market supervisors, their responsibilities and independence. In the fourth chapter, I describe the structure of financial markets in each member state of the European Union from 2001 to 2015. Furthermore, the purpose of this chapter is to collect data for the next chapter. In the fifth chapter, I analyze and compare financial market supervision models of the European...

Each panelist has chosen an artifact (or type, genre, etc.) from the recent past and interrogated its role as an influence on contemporary popular culture, working to show the linkage between then and now. This type of work is underappreciated and we would like to attempt to show how informing ourselves on popular culture past can make us better critics in the present. Our hope is to inspire others to take up that cause as well. In that spirit, we would like to encourage people to come prepared to discuss ideas and share their own work in a workshop type environment.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Regulação por objetivos - versão biblioteca.pdf: 1394879 bytes, checksum: 9a29a0db296eb7bf9d7db7143e270747 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-05 / O presente trabalho pretende investigar os diferentes modelos de regulação financeira, com foco no modelo de regulação por objetivos ou “twin peaks”, no contexto das recentes transformações na estrutura do mercado financeiro global, notadamente no que tange (i) ao surgimento de novos produtos e serviços que não são facilmente enquadrados em um segmento específico do mercado financeiro, podendo envolver concomitantemente funções típicas dos mercados bancário, de capitais e de seguros; e (ii) às mudanças nas características dos principais participantes que atuam nesse mercado, dentre as quais pode se destacar (ii.1) a unificação de organizações financeiras que atuavam em diferentes setores do mercado financeiro – bancos de investimento, bancos comerciais, corretoras, seguradoras etc. – resultando na formação de conglomerados financeiros; (ii.2) o ingresso de empresas de tecnologia que competem e fornecem serviços financeiros de modo inovador, desafiando os participantes clássicos deste mercado. As mudanças supracitadas são significativas do ponto de vista da estrutura de mercado, e devem ser observadas pelos reguladores a fim de avaliar a compatibilidade de suas respectivas estruturas regulatórias com os novos riscos advindos desse “novo mercado financeiro” em formação. Parte-se da premissa de que uma estrutura regulatória efetiva precisa se adequar à respectiva estrutura de mercado a qual se pretende regular, sob o risco de tal desalinhamento resultar em uma regulação excessivamente custosa e que não promove os objetivos para os quais foi criada. A hipótese deste trabalho é que o modelo de regulação por objetivos é o mais apto a propiciar uma regulação financeira efetiva, em contraposição aos modelos de regulação por setores e unificada, tendo em vista que sua estrutura regulatória: (i) permite a consecução dos múltiplos objetivos da regulação financeira de forma harmonizada, em um cenário de crescente complexificação dos riscos emanados do sistema financeiro, mitigando a possibilidade de sobreposição de objetivos dentro de uma mesma agência; e (ii) amplia o limite de aplicação da regulação, uma vez que os critérios jurídicos para determinação de competência dos reguladores não são vinculados a conceitos próprios dos setores bancário, securitário e de capitais, cuja divisão é cada vez menos perceptível do ponto de vista da prática financeira, na qual as atividades financeiras vêm sendo desenvolvidas de modo transversal. A fim de desenvolver a hipótese elencada, o trabalho se propõe, num primeiro momento, a fazer uma revisão da literatura teórica sobre modelos de regulação, com o objetivo de identificar as características que tornam um modelo regulatório “ótimo” do ponto de vista da efetividade. Após essa análise, parte-se para um exame das mudanças práticas pelas quais o mercado financeiro vem passando, e como elas afetam as diferentes estruturas de regulação vigentes – propiciando a emergência do modelo de regulação por objetivos como predominante em algumas jurisdições. Nesse contexto, a regulação por objetivos se coloca como uma opção a ser considerada pelos diferentes reguladores nacionais para enfrentar os novos riscos do mercado financeiro global e auxiliar o pleno desenvolvimento do mercado financeiro nas próximas décadas. / The present work intends to investigate the different models of financial regulation, focusing on the model of regulation by objectives or "twin peaks", in the context of the recent transformations in the structure of the global financial market, especially regarding (i) the emergence of new products and services that are not easily framed in a specific segment of the financial market, and can simultaneously develop typical functions of the banking, securities and insurance markets; and (ii) changes in the characteristics of the main participants in this market, among which (ii.1) the unification of financial organizations operating in different sectors of the financial market - investment banks, commercial banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies etc. - resulting in the formation of financial conglomerates; (ii.2) the entry of financial technology companies that compete and provide innovative services in competition with the classic participants of this market. The aforementioned changes should be interpreted as major changes in terms of market structure, and must be observed by regulators in order to assess the compatibility of their respective financial structures with the new risks arising from this "new financial market" in formation. The work is based on the theoretical premise that an efficient and effective regulatory structure needs to reflect the respective market structure that it is intended to regulate, under the risk that such misalignment will result in an empty regulation, without regulatory tools to promote the objectives for which it was created. The hypothesis of this work is that the model of regulation by objectives, as opposed to the unified- and sector-based models, is the most adequate to provide an efficient and effective financial regulation, especially considering that its regulatory structure: (i) enable the fulfillment of multiple objectives of financial regulation in a harmonized manner, in a stage where the complexity of risks emanating from the financial system are increasing, mitigating the possibility of objective overlap within the same agency; and (ii) expand the regulatory perimeters, since the legal criteria for determining the competence of regulators is not linked to concepts of the banking, security and capital sectors, whose distinction increasingly blurred from the point of view that most financial activities have been developed in a cross-sectored way. In order to develop this hypothesis, this dissertation proposes, firstly, to review the theoretical literature on regulation models, with the objective of identifying the characteristics that make a regulatory model “optimal” from the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness. After this analysis, we examine the practical changes happening in the financial market, and how they affect the different regulatory structures in force - propitiating the emergence of the regulation by objectives as the redominant model in some jurisdictions. In this context, regulation by objectives is an option to be considered by the different national regulators to face the new risks of the global financial market and to help the full development of financial markets in the coming decades

This thesis contributes to two completely unrelated debates in the economic literature, similar only in the relatively high degree of controversy characterizing each one. <p>The first part is methodological and macroeconomic in nature, addressing the question of whether the distribution of income across countries is converging (i.e. are the poor catching up to the rich?) or diverging (i.e. are we witnessing the formation of two exclusive clubs, one for poor countries and another one for rich countries?). Applications of the simple Markov model to this question have generated evidence in favor of the divergence hypothesis. In the first chapter, I critically review these results. I use statistical inference to show that the divergence results are not statistically robust, and I explain that this instability of the results comes from the application of a model for discrete data to data that is actually continuous. In the second chapter, I reposition the whole convergence-divergence debate by placing it in the context of Silverman’s classic survey of non-parametric density estimation techniques. This allows me to use the basic notions of fuzzy logic to adapt the simple Markov chain model to continuous data. When I apply the newly adapted Markov chain model to the cross-country distribution question, I find evidence against the divergence hypothesis, and this evidence is statistically robust. <p>The second part of the thesis is empirical and microeconomic in nature. I question whether observed differences between husbands’ and wives’ participation in labor markets are due to different preferences or to different constraints. My identification strategy is based on the idea that the more power an individual has relative to his/her partner, the more his/her actions will reflect his/her preferences. I use 2001 PSID data on cohabiting couples to estimate a simultaneous equations model of the spousal time allocation decision. My results confirm the stylized fact that specialization and trade does not explain time allocation for couples in which the wife is the primary breadwinner, and suggest that power could provide a more general explanation of the observations. My results show that wives with relatively more power choose to work more on the labor market and less at home, whereas husbands with more power choose to do the opposite. Since women start out from a lower level of labor market participation than men do, it would seem that spouses’ agree that the ideal mix of market work and housework lies somewhere between the husbands’ and the wives’ current positions. / Doctorat en sciences économiques, Orientation économie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The design of the new stage of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana adheres to, among other things, the motto of the “TACE” (Theatre Architecture in Central Europe) project, i.e. a search of forms and types of buildings for the "New Theatre for the 21st Century". Therefore, I confront three topics: 1/ the conventional binocular conception for the drama chorus of the National Theatre, 2/ the unconventional solution of the "TACE" and 3/ the urban conception of the location, the so-called "Southern Square", designed by Josip Plečnik. Ad1/ The serious and classical feeling of the conventional form of the theatre hall is required, for this is the National Theatre. Slovenia, as a relatively young state, strives to build and strengthen its historical and national existence; therefore, the classical conception should be preferred because most plays dealing with the national identity are written for this type of theatre. Unlike the unconventional type of “performance” theatres that tend to present international rather than national art. Ad 2/ The search for spatial forms of unconventional and interactive staging of traditional types, such as ballet, opera, musical or drama as well as new forms such as “performance” resulted in a clear conclusion - “black box”. The ideal theatre of the future is infinitely multifunctional neutral space equipped with technologies that enable using the area for virtually any purpose. The principle comes very close to that of film studios, yet equipped with theatrical and other technologies. Ad 3/ A controversial location in the centre of Ljubljana, which has been waiting for an urban conception since the 1930s. It is situated at the end of Plečnik’s “Ljubljana diameter”, with the obelisk in the French Revolution Square as the opposite pole. The unfinished axis obelisk-square-theatre is quite apparent. The location features a clearance and an inner block with a poor urban development; yet it also features the so-called Knafijev prehod, a socially well functional part. The building is divided into 2 functional units - the theatre with its halls, lounge, gallery and cafe, and a commercial passage with the theatre’s administration. The facade of the theatre is a composite of several elements: From left, a decoration consisting of a ruptured pillar with a statue of an actor with a background of the fly, as we move to the right, a “curtain” going down in a curve from a glass “heaven” of the theatre’s hall towering over the passage, out of which rises the solid pylon of the gallery made of half-transparent material LitraConTM. This composition shifts the axis of the lounge beyond the axis of the park to the axis of the diameter and makes thus room for service access. The theatre’s area with the passage beneath is linked by a number of newels which can spin and thus close and in this way enable changing the mode of the passage from a lounge to a public area. The conception of the theatre's area combines sections 1/ and 2/ mentioned above. It consists of the classical stage with a trap cellar, portal and fly, which can be used a classical opera-glasses theatre for as many as 800 persons in the audience and/or, if the iron curtain is closed, as a small scene with approximately 100 seats. The remaining area functions as experimental and consists of a revolving auditorium and 4 stages whose back walls feature panorama windows.