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When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...
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The working hypothesis of international financial regulation is that it should be globally harmonized. This paper … of systemic risk measurement and regulation. The thesis is informed by what I consider two key lessons from the recent … global financial crisis. The first lesson is that, when business strategies that internationally-harmonized regulation …
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The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted after the global financial crisis, requires U.S. financial regulators to define and regulate systemically risky firms and activities — a truly Sisyphean task. In this Essay, we identify two paths regulators have taken: a “descriptive approach,” which involves...
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The United States and the European Union (“EU”) are at the forefront of financial market re‐regulation in the wake of … of a comprehensive, yet fairly disjointed, re-regulation of domestic and international financial markets, including … evident in the primary areas of securitization regulation thus far, the so‐called “skin in the game” regulations and …
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The Basel Accord has often been regarded as one of the most successful forms of international regulation due to the … high level of compliance from various actors despite the lack of direct repercussions. International financial regulation … to perform as a stable method of international regulation, despite the consistent presence of flaws within the global …
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This article explores how the theory of, “responsive regulation,” might guide historical inquiry into the American … origins of the global financial crisis. Part I of the article briefly lays out some key ideas of the, “responsive regulation … regulation over the past two generations. Part II addresses the conflicting aims of financial regulation since the 1970s …
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financial regulation. Today's financial system is a dynamic and complex ecosystem. For these and other reasons, policy makers …. The processes governing financial regulation, however, implicitly assume a high degree of knowability, stability, and … financial regulation has failed in the past and why it will likely fail again. It also suggests the need for a new approach to …
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second set is intended to address potential too-big-to-fail problems by imposing prudential regulation on systemically … forces of hedge fund regulation across the Atlantic, ultimate policy outcomes were significantly divergent. Primarily … gave birth to indirect regulation of hedge funds with a focus on their interconnectedness with LCFIs. This is mainly …
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This article compares the direct regulation of hedge funds in the U.S. prior to the Dodd-Frank Act with the direct … regulatory measures to address potential systemic risks of hedge funds ensued in its aftermaths. The direct regulation involves … regulatory measures focusing immediately on the regulation of the target industry. In contrast, the imperatives or commands of …
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