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ABSTRACTThis paper analyses the relationship between stock returns, systematic risk and stock market anomalies in eight Asian emerging markets. The size effect, the price/earnings, the book to market anomalies, and the January effect are examined. The models allow for the conditional aspects of the relationships. The structural changes induced by the liberalization process are considered in the model, together with the main economic indicators.

With the possible exception of New York City, Paris is one of cinema's most beloved “characters”. From the Lumière brothers to New Wave heroes, from Debord's psychogeography to Rohmer's emotional cartography, from the 1965 Six in Paris and the 1985 Japanese takes on the city to the 2006 Paris je t'aime, no other city has graced film and influenced filmmakers so often as Paris. Of general interest is the evolution of that city in contemporary Asian filmography and, in particular, the 2008 Night and Day by Hong Sang-soo, the only movie he shot outside his native South Korea. In keeping with his obsession with paring down locales (coffee shops, bars, apartments), neighbourhoods and events (drunken binges, love triangles, holidays), Night and Day is restricted to a familiar take on the city's 14th arrondissement. Focussed not so much on culture clash or encounters as on the city itself, Night and Day zooms in on the most trivial sights, the most ordinary settings, the drudgery of daily life and the paths trodden by the main character (who ends up meeting mostly South Koreans). Much like in Tsai Ming-liang's 2001 What Time Is It Over There? or 2009 Visage, or Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2007 Flight of the Red Balloon, the appropriation of Paris owes much to movie-making culture. Rohmer's influence on Hong Sang-soo is a case in point and this essay will look at how and through which cultural references the latter appropriates Paris in his movie.

AbstractThis paper begins with a definition of dumping, and then offers an overview of anti-dumping measures and their economic impacts. First, it describes the concept of dumping and explains that anti-dumping measures are quite ineffective. Next, it documents the raise of anti-dumping measures over time. It demonstrates that, nowadays, developing countries are using this protectionist tool as much as traditional industrial countries. Finally, the paper comments the wto regulation in order to examine the effectiveness of dispute settlement cases involving anti-dumping measures.

The issue of restitution of cultural heritage often occupies a center stage in the media. The subject fascinates by the multitude of problems that it addresses. The internationalization of the relations, the complexity of the situations, the diversity of the historic, political, diplomatic, economic or spiritual stakes, are so many variables to be analyzed to understand the phenomenon of the restitution of a cultural property. In this article, we examine different geographical and temporal contexts to provide an insight into the legal, ethical, and political aspects that underlie the restitution of artworks and cultural property.

Since the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) has entered into force in 1993, Canada and the United States include labor provisions in most trade agreements they have signed. While the NAALC was a failure because of an unusable dispute resolution mechanism, the United States evolved its model into labor chapters as soon as the agreement with Jordan (2000). Despite setbacks from the Bush-era trade agreements (2002–2006), a “New Trade Policy” for America has made it possible to strengthen labor obligations in the agreements signed between 2007 and 2011 by the United States. On the Canadian side, the minimalist approach in accordance with the NAALC was maintained until 2008, when new stronger labor provisions were included in the trade agreements signed between 2008 and 2014. In addition, in within the framework of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Canada has maintained its model, while in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, it had to give in to European requirements, in particular by excluding any possibility of sanctions in the case of non-compliance with commitments made in terms of labour. The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, on the other hand, materialized with an improvement in the provisions included in the chapter on labour. Stronger commitments (prohibition of forced labor, gender equality, protection of migrant workers), as well as the inclusion of an annex calling for the establishment of concrete measures for the effective protection of the right of association in Mexico seem to mark the desire to make labour commitments more rigorous. Finally, the implementation of a new rapid dispute resolution mechanism looks promising, and for the first time places responsibility for a breach on the offending company.

SummaryTaking stock of contemporary studies in the sociology of development, especially in its neo-Marxist version, leads one rapidly to the acknowledgement of a crisis, if not of an impasse. The object of this paper is to show how this impasse could be transcended. A critical re-examination of the notions of metatheory and of theory as they relate to empirical research makes it possible to identify the confusion we now see between these two, and supplies the necessary elements for a better linkage between metatheory and empirical research. A program of research in the sociology of development is outlined on the basis of the compatibility between such different theories as those of dependency reversal and the feminist theories of gender and development.