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Immigrant threat, Prejudice, and the Growing Refugee Crisis

2017

Mobilizing against the Other : cyberhate, refugee crisis and proximization

2017

Drawing on the insights from Media Proximization Approach (MPA), the present chapter explores the dynamics of the online construction of the Other in the context of current refugee crisis and the phenomenon of hate speech within cyberspace. While content- and theme-wise, it takes under scrutiny online refugee-related discourses, on the theoretical and methodological level it presents a new approach to mediated construction of social reality based on the notion of distance and Self/Other or Us/Them dichotomy. Coached within (Cognitive) Critical Discourse Analysis, such an approach calls for an integration of corpus linguistics methods and tools. The chapter addresses the following questions:…

Solidarities in the Arctic Border

2017

Crónica sobre la problemática jurídica de los repartidores de comida a domicilio durante el estado de alarma

2020

En este artículo se realiza una crónica que analiza las implicaciones jurídico- laborales de los obstáculos y conflictos a los que se han enfrentado los trabajadores de las principales empresas de reparto de comida a domicilio durante los dos primeros meses de estado de alarma que, como consecuencia de la crisis sanitaria de la Covid-19, fue decretado en España el 14 de marzo de 2020. Partiendo del primigenio problema de los falsos autónomos, se abordan cuestiones como las dificultades para acceder a las prestaciones extraordinarias, la falta de medidas de protección de la salud, la reducción drástica de su remuneración, la carencia de titularidad del derecho de huelga o la prohibición de m…

GREEN LOGISTICS – A DIFFERENT AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS GROWTH MODEL

2014

Built on the concepts of green logistics and green supply chain management (GrSCM), this paper presents the relationship between logistical activities and its related environmental effects and costs. By greening their supply chain, companies can better use their assets, optimize resources- do more with less, improve and create sustainable technology, ensure continuity and strategic, long-term alliances. Business ethics and social responsibility are important components of organisational effectiveness. Most companies recognize that socially responsible activities improve their image among consumers, stakeholders, the financial community and other relevant publics. They have found that enviro…

The need for a special restructuring procedure for insolvent entrepreneurs due to SARS-CoV-2

2020

This text refers to the need for simple restructuring proceedings for entrepreneurs due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic. Some countries may be more deeply affected by the crisis, others may be more resilient to economic shocks. The comments are abstract. They do not refer to any particular legal system. Their purpose is to provoke a general discussion on the need to introduce into the legislation special rules regarding business insolvency as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main assumption is as follows. The main purpose of insolvency law is to maximize creditors’ satisfaction. Meanwhile, in the event of a common, structural crisis, a more important value may be ma…

Determinantes de los deterioros para la mejora de los stress test para las entidades de créditos españolas

2016

El objetivo de este trabajo es la estimación de los determinantes de las pérdidas por los deterioros de los créditos para mejorar la estimación de los stress test. La metodología utilizada se basa en tres modelos econométricos: MCO, el sistema AR(1) y el MGM. Algunos de los principales resultados obtenidos son: el ciclo económico es un determinante de las dotaciones para el deterioro, ya que su impacto es diferente en épocas de recesión respecto a las etapas de crecimiento. Existe inercia de la variable dependiente, pero es diferente en las etapas de recesión respecto a las de crecimiento. Los determinantes que tiene un mayor impacto son el PIB y los fondos propios. Además, hay aspectos sin…

I credit derivatives nell’economia dei sistemi finanziari tra innovazione e criticità

2011

Il lavoro è volto a comprendere il ruolo degli strumenti credit derivatives nell’economia dei sistemi finanziari. I credit derivatives rappresentano una significativa forma di innovazione finanziaria che incide direttamente sull’attività degli intermediari finanziari e, in particolare, bancari. Il ricorso al mercato dei credit derivatives rende possibile il trasferimento integrale o parziale dei rischi di credito senza il contestuale trasferimento delle singole esposizioni creditizie. Ciò dischiude una varietà di scelte aziendali di de-integrazione della catena del valore dell’intermediazione creditizia e di diversificazione del portafoglio crediti che, tuttavia, non sempre conducono ad una…

economics in the mirror of the financial crisis

2011

The structure of the Chapter is as follows. In Section 2 I discuss some of the factors that may have played a role in causing the crisis and emphasise that supporters of different economic theories will assign different weights to each factor in their analyses. As a consequence, suggested economic policies are highly sensitive to the economic theory employed in evaluating the set of causes. In Section 3 I seek to defend economists from the common charge that their inability to foresee the crisis is a clear sign of the lack of scientific status of their discipline. In my view, the main liability of mainstream economics lies elsewhere, in its excessive trust on the self-equilibrating mechanis…

Sleepless in Carver Country: Insomnia and Existential Crisis in Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction

2020

Chez Raymond Carver, la nuit n’est jamais uniquement une toile de fond réaliste. Dans ses nouvelles se déroulant après la tombée de la nuit, Carver joue à déconstruire les clichés généralement associés au confort de l’intimité nocturne et du lit conjugal. L’insomnie qui frappe certains de ses personnages les renvoie au contraire à leur complète solitude et à leur condition de mortels. Cet article cherche donc à voir comment la nuit blanche carvérienne est utilisée métaphoriquement pour exprimer l’angoisse de personnages souvent peu expansifs, qui veulent leur part du Rêve américain mais se retrouvent pris au piège d’un cauchemar existentiel. In Raymond Carver’s short fiction, the night is n…