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Recently several countries have implemented explicit deposit insurance systems. In most countries the adoption of an explicit deposit insurance system followed a banking crisis. This paper examines the impact of demographic, social, and political factors on the presence of an explicit deposit insurance system in a country. Moreover, for a subset of countries with explicit deposit insurance system we try to identify demographic, political, economic, and financial factors that affect the level of deposit insurance coverage. The findings suggest that life expectancy and political rights are related to whether an explicit deposit insurance system is in place or not. For countries with explicit deposit insurance systems the level of income, the importance of the banking sector within the financial system, and the development of domestic banking sector have a significant impact on the level of deposit insurance coverage level. The level of income, deposit money bank assets to GDP ratio, bank overhead costs to total assets ratio, presence of co-insurance, and type of administration are statistically significant in explaining differences in the level of coverage among countries.

Published also in Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science, series XXV, nos. 6-7. ; Vita. ; Thesis (PH. D.)--Johns Hopkins university, 1907. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Studies of the International Law Commission of the United Nations have focused exclusively on the institutional level of analysis, contending that the Commission can best be understood by examining institutional factors such as the Statute of the Commission, the role of the General Assembly and the issues adopted by the Commission for consideration. Implicit in the literature is the assumption that Law Commission members function in a political vacuum, little influenced by the policies of home governments or events in the international arena. ; This dissertation seeks to examine external factors that influence the functioning of the Law Commission in its debate-oriented process of codifying international law. The theory advanced in this study posits that factors external to the Law Commission are influential in the Law Commission's progression towards consensus on legal issues. Two factors are examined: (1) regional blocs, and (2) the international environment, conceptualized in terms of the imposition of the cold war and its end. As such, this study fills an existing gap in the literature and challenges the core assumptions of the literature. ; The case study for examining the role of external factors in the Law Commission is the Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind. The case selection is considered optimal because it incorporates multiple legal issues (including genocide, mercenarism, colonial domination, apartheid, economic aggression and statute of an international tribunal), rendering its findings more generalizable and less topic bound than other Law Commission issues. The case study is of interest, as well, due to the dramatic rise in calls for the prosecution of alleged war criminals, a process contingent on the Draft Code. ; A data base is constructed from Law Commission debate, from which content analysis is undertaken. Ten hypotheses test the relationship between Law Commission debate and factors external to the Commission. Support for the hypotheses indicate the influential role of international politics on the Law Commission and provide evidence of the need for more systematic, data base-oriented studies in the literature. ; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4937. ; Director: Harvey Starr. ; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 1995.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- 1 Evolution of Canadian Postwar International Trade Policy -- 2 Reflections on the Canada-u.s. Free Trade Agreement in the Context of the Multilateral Trading System -- 3 Canada and the Ongoing Impasse over Agricultural Protectionism -- 4 Canada and the Private International Trade Law Regime -- PART TWO: REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS -- 5 Canadian Foreign Investment Policy: Issues and Prospects -- 6 Canadian and International Legal Regimes for Foreign Investment and Trade in Services -- 7 Canada and the International Monetary Regime -- PART THREE: REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES -- 8 Canada and the Changing Regime in International Air Transport -- 9 Canada and the Evolving System of International Shipping Conferences -- 10 Canada and the Movement towards Liberalization of the International Telecommunications Regime -- PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 11 Evolution of Canadian Fisheries Management Policy under the New Law of the Sea: International Dimensions -- 12 Air, Water, and Political Fire: Building a North American Environmental Regime -- CLOSING PERSPECTIVE -- 13 Changing Multilateral Institutions: A Role for Canada -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Plural International Relations in a Divided World. By Stephen Chan (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2017), pp. × + 223. ISBN: 9781509508686. £16.99 (pb).

AbstractA sound foundation has been laid for effetive cooperation between international agencies interested in the better administration of local governemnts.

The large international bailouts of the 1990s have been criticized for differentreasons, in particular for generating moral hazard at the expense of theglobal taxpayer. We argue in this paper that some of these concerns areexaggerated or misleading because international bailouts have no or verylittle cost to the international community and the global taxpayer. Theproblem, in our view, is rather to ensure that the international safety net isnot used as an input into bad domestic policies. This may require a shifttowards ex ante conditionality, in the sense that the availability and size ofofficial crisis lending need to be conditional on government policies beforethe crisis.