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A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant literature ever since. However, the claim that clitic doubling is the counterpart of Germanic scrambling has never been substantiated. In this paper we present extensive evidence from Greek that Clitic Doubling has common formal properties with Germanic Scrambling/Object Shift. Our evidence consists mainly of binding facts observed when doubling takes place, which seem, at first sight, to be completely unexpected. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that these facts are strongly reminiscent of the effects showing up in Germanic scrambling. We propose that these properties can be derived under a theory of clitic constructions along the lines of Sportiche (1992) implemented into the framework of Chomsky (1995). Finally we suggest the that the crosslinguistic distribution of Scrambling as opposed to Clitic Doubling should be linked to a parameter relating to properties of Agr: Move/Merge XP vs. Move/Merge X° to Agr. We show that this parameter unifies the behaviour of subjects and objects within a language and across languages. The paper is organised as follows. In section 2 we present evidence from binding, interpretational and prosodic effects that doubling and scrambling display very similar properties. In section 3 we present Sportiches account and point out some problems for it. In section 4 we present our proposal.
In international accounting literature there are various approaches to assess the quality of national accounting systems with respect to specific key functions, e.g. the intensity of capital market information. An empirical approach often used measures the quality of disclosure by ranking the national systems with the so-called "disclosure index" (e.g. Choi 1973, Barret 1975, Cooke 1992, Taylor/ Zarzeski 1996). Concentrating on disclosure regulation in contrast to accounting practices, Cooke/ Wallace 1990 construct an index which measures the "degree of financial regulation". They identify groups of countries which can be clearly classified in highly regulated, regulated and moderately regulated national accounting systems.
In our analysis, we want to enrich the idea of the degree of financial disclosure regulation to a concept for evaluating the degree of determination of financial measurement. Assuming that a high degree of determination of a national accounting system leads to more comparable accounts than a low degree, the index can be interpreted as a quality measure of national accounting systems according to the intensity of capital market information. The following hypothesis is to be proved: the degree of disclosure regulation equals the degree of measurement regulation in order to serve the information needs of the national capital markets.
Three groups of different degrees of determination for national accounting systems can be easily identified which are compared to the results of Cooke/ Wallace. For some of the national systems the above hypothesis seems to be appropriate whereas some opposing results can be shown. Possible explanations are presented which can be causally related to these diverging results. They are based on historical developments, the differentiation between rules for individual and group accounts, and on conditions where different degrees seem plausible.
An economy in which deposit-taking banks of a Diamond/ Dybvig style and an asset market coexist is modelled. Firstly, within this framework we characterize distinct financial systems depending on the fraction of households with direct investment opportunities that are less efficient than those available to banks. With this fraction comparatively low, the evolving financial system can be interpreted as market-oriented. In this system, banks only provide efficient investment opportunities to households with inferior investment alternatives. Banks are not active in the secondary financial market nor do they provide any liquidity insurance to their depositors. Households participate to a large extent in the primary as well as in the secondary financial markets. In the other case of a relatively high fraction of households with inefficient direct investment opportunities, a bank-dominated financial system arises, in which banks provide liquidity transformation, are active in secondary financial markets and are the only player in primary markets, while households only participate in secondary financial markets. Secondly, we analyze the effect a run on a single bank has on the entire financial system. Interestingly, we can show that a bank run on a single bank causes contagion via the financial market neither in market-oriented nor in extremely bank-dominated financial systems. But in only moderately bank-dominated (or hybrid) financial systems fire sales of long-term financial claims by a distressed bank cause a sudden drop in asset prices that precipitates other banks into crisis.
This paper compares the accuracy of credit ratings of Moody s and Standard&Poors. Based on 11,428 issuer ratings and 350 defaults in several datasets from 1999 to 2003 a slight advantage for the rating system of Moody s is detected. Compared to former research the robustness of the results is increased by using nonparametric bootstrap approaches. Furthermore, robustness checks are made to control for the impact of Watchlist entries, staleness of ratings and the effect of unsolicited ratings on the results.
Am 14. und 15. Februar 2020 fand an der Universität Bern der Workshop "Vergleich - Übersetzung - Weltliteratur. Komparatistische Praktiken in der Diskussion" statt. Die Veranstaltung war zugleich Auftaktveranstaltung für das geplante DFG-Netzwerk "Undiszipliniert? Komparatistische Praktiken und ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung" und wurde organisiert von Melanie Rohner, Netzwerkmitglied an der Universität Bern, und den Antragstellern des Netzwerks, Joachim Harst und Alena Heinritz. Das Programm des Workshops setzte sich aus netzwerkinternen Besprechungen und drei öffentlichen Impulsvorträgen zusammen, an die jeweils eine Diskussion eines ausgewählten Textes anschloss.
Was man schon weiß, gibt jedem die Stärke, weiter zu lernen und höhere Erfolgsziele zu erreichen. Im Tertiärsprachenunterricht ergreift der Lerner im Kontext Deutsch als Fremdsprache nach Englisch (DaFnE) günstige Lerngelegenheiten aus der ersten Fremdsprache Englisch. Durch die Sensibilisierung des Sprachvergleichs und der Bewusstmachung von Sprachlernerfahrungen, können Lernende mit ihren vorhandenen Sprachkenntnissen sichere Lernerfolge im DaF-Unterricht erzielen. Um den Input der Lernenden aus dem Englischen bewusst zu aktivieren, müssen optimale Lernsituationen bereitgestellt werden. In diesem Zusammenhang soll im Tertiärsprachenunterricht ein interkultureller Raum geschaffen werden, wo die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen dem Englischen und Deutschen bearbeitet werden können. Die Redewendungen können als soziokulturelle Kompetenz zu der Integrierung in den DaFnE-Unterricht bedeutend sein. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Einbeziehung der Redewendungen in den Tertiärsprachenunterricht. Die englischen und deutschen Redewendungen wurden für den DaFnE-Unterricht analysiert und als Redewendungen mit absoluter Ähnlichkeit, Redewendungen mit teilweiser Ähnlichkeit und Redewendungen mit kontextueller Ähnlichkeit kategorisiert. Nach der Bestimmung der Redewendungen für den Tertiärsprachenunterricht DaFnE, war es wichtig, wie man diese Redewendungen als DaF-Lehrkraft im Tertiärsprachenunterricht in die Praxis umsetzen kann. Dazu wurden einige Einbeziehungswege mit Beispielen vorgeschlagen. Die Visualisierung der Redewendungen kann die Lehrkraft besonders beim Anfangsniveau effektiv einsetzen und damit einen wichtigen Antrieb zur Erweiterung des Wortschatzes geben. Die anderen zwei Einbeziehungsmöglichkeiten auf der Spur der Redewendungen und Kontextsituationen der Redewendungen können in weiteren Niveaus eingesetzt werden, nachdem sich die Lernenden an die Redewendungen gewöhnt haben. Mit dem interkulturellen Vergleich der Redewendungen können Lernmotivation, Sprachbewusstheit und zugleich Lernerautonomie gefördert werden.
In recent years new methods and models have been developed to quantify credit risk on a portfolio basis. CreditMetrics (tm), CreditRisk+, CreditPortfolio (tm) are among the best known and many others are similar to them. At first glance they are quite different in their approaches and methodologies. A comparison of these models especially with regard to their applicability on typical middle market loan portfolios is in the focus of this study. The analysis shows that differences in the results of an application of the models on a certain loan portfolio is mainly due to different approaches in approximating default correlations. That is especially true for typically non-rated medium-sized counterparties. On the other hand distributional assumptions or different solution techniques in the models are more or less compatible.
Carl Schmitt ist heute nun wirklich kein vergessener Autor. Und dennoch gibt es zentrale Fragen seines Werkes, die bislang noch kaum erforscht sind. Eines dieser Themen ist das Hitler-Bild. Was genau dachte Schmitt über Hitler? Vor 1933 und 1945 äußerte er sich darüber erstaunlich selten. Nach 1945 jedoch dachte er in publizierten und nachgelassenen Texten und Aufzeichnungen ständig über Hitler, den Nationalsozialismus und seine eigene Rolle in dieser Geschichte nach. Dabei bediente er sich auch literarischer Spiegelungen. Eine solche soll hier genauer untersucht werden: der Vergleich Hitlers mit Friedrich Schillers Demetrius-Gestalt. Er ist eine Art esoterisches Schlußwort über Hitler. Frühere Überlegungen weiterführend, prüfe ich diesen Vergleich in seiner Aussagekraft. Dafür wird Schillers Fragment eingehender vorgestellt und als Verlaufsmodell für die Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus betrachtet. Es geht um einen "esoterischen" Schmitt. Diese Vorgehensweise hat ihre Tücken und erlaubt nur begrenzte Rückschlüsse auf Schmitts Hitler-Bild vor 1945. Sie thematisiert aber jedenfalls einen intensiven Umgang mit Schillers Dichtung.
Im gleichen Jahr wie Erich Rothackers 'Geschichtsphilosophie' erschien bei Benno Schwabe, dem Baseler Verlag, der später Joachim Ritter mit dem 'Historischen Wörterbuch der Philosophie' beauftragte, Ludwik Flecks 'Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv' (1935). Dieses Buch, dessen Nachkriegsrezeption durch die Nazizeit verhindert war, wurde in den 1960er Jahren vom Verlag wegen fehlenden Absatzes makuliert. Heute ist es in der (begriffsgeschichtlich orientierten) Wissenschafts geschich te methodisch 'state of the art'. Die frühe bundesdeutsche Begriffsgeschichtsforschung dagegen knüpfte mit Rothacker, Gadamer und Joachim Ritter an die Vorkriegstradition der deutschen Geisteswissenschaften an.
This paper fits within a broader research programme concerned with the processes that link labour market precarity and social exclusion. Labour market insecurity manifests itself most directly in the form of unemployment, and other elements in the programme seek to measure the impact of precarity, and unemployment in particular, on poverty and social exclusion in the eight countries covered. One of the principal concerns of the programme is however the extent to which institutional differences across countries with respect to the labour market and social protection are a significant factor mediating the relationship between labour market precarity and social exclusion. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of cash transfers, the central element of social protection systems, in alleviating the effects of unemployment on income poverty. The structures of social protection systems vary greatly across European Union member states, and in many cases have altered significantly in recent years in response to high unemployment (see Hauser et al, 1998). Using data from the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s for six member countries, the paper compares the effectiveness of different systems in lifting or keeping the unemployed out of poverty, and how this has been affected by the way systems have responded to the challenges produced by developments in the labour market in the past decade. The specific role of social insurance-based unemployment-linked transfers versus other cash transfers is also considered, to assess the extent to which social insurance has been able to cope with changes in the labour market over the period. The data come from a variety of national large-scale household surveys. The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 discusses the data and methods to be employed in measuring the impact of cash transfers on poverty risks for the unemployed. Section 3 looks at the overall risks of poverty for the unemployed before and after cash transfers, and how these changed between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Section 4 looks at the role of social insurance-based unemployment payments versus other cash transfers. Section 5 examines the extent to which the impact of transfers varies by gender and by duration of unemployment. Section 6 highlights the key patterns identified and what these tell us about the relationship between the type of welfare regime a country operates and effectiveness in alleviating poverty among the unemployed.