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This paper proposes a reviewing discussion of the linkages between the concepts of better regulation and organisational governance. Both are considered in a context of the former having become an attempt (some would posit it as an exclusively EU—inspired one) to transcend many of the negative attributes of all other regulatory paradigms. After initially considering the general contextual ambient for all regulation, we then discuss the issue of to what extent should the state regulate, some aspects of the macroeconomic impact, and the regulatory components analysis which builds a causal chain in governance processes. We also consider some corporates' behaviour in the general area of the regulation/governance nexus. ; N/A

Although against a backdrop of illiquid capital markets, substantial non-performing loans, and other problems, Slovakia's bank privatization process evolved in what ultimately turned out to be a well structured manner that made the institutions attractive to good strategic partners. This study presents certain financial services industry (FSI) privatization developments, and characteristics, as evolving in a central European country where the process can be considered to have had a number of interesting positive features. The genesis of today's Slovakia is sourced in issues of ethnicism, nationalism, and conflict, some of which generate continued debate even in our times. When the First World War started in 1914 different Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) had attained different degrees of democracy, and the sentiments of democracy and of nationalism were deliberately appealed to by the Allies in their propaganda against Turkish rule over Arabs, and against Austrian rule over Czechs, over Slovaks, Poles, Croats, and others. ; N/A

This paper discusses issues and developments that relate to the teaching of bank regulation in tertiary institutions. It considers how course content, teaching texts, and methodology, can become subject to issues like specific, historical, and jurisdictional, cultures and contexts for the discipline. It considers how economic and political approaches impact such teaching. How banking regulations tools are used, and course structures are built, are matters which impinge on the type of trained personnel who later eventually leave academia and end up working on regulatory or compliance matters. ; N/A

Notes about the author follow this article. ; This paper is a discussion of policy lock-in and lock-out in terms of how these exist and operate in the economic and political spheres of several of the Northern and Southern littoral countries of the Mediterranean. It describes the informal strategic bind that the EU finds itself in as it often ends up facing problems of others which are shunted on to it. Policy lock-in often includes a wide range of inter-related areas, as well as several forms of bias that impinge on both political and economic institutions. The paper also discusses the type of society that may be needed to handle policy lock-in, and this is considered in terms of social democratic liberalism and the necessity of a constantly learning society. ; N/A