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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 sub-prime mortgage crisis that originated in the United States has triggered a global credit crunch, threatening the solvency of emerging markets that have relied heavily on foreign debt, and resulting in the devaluation of their currencies. Currency market interventions by the central banks...
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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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The literature on regulation has typically emphasized the ability of concentrated interest groups to secure the rules …‐roots advocacy groups for more stringent regulation. As a result, Dodd‐Frank Act falls far short of a thorough‐going redesign of the … legislation: macroprudential regulation, consumer protection, reestablishment of the partition between deposit banking versus …
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The English law of mortgage is remarkable. Its complexity rivals that of Euler's equation and could, in the same manner, be described as ‘beautiful'. Its stubborn retention of archaic terms and concepts operates in sharp contrast to the ever changing world of finance which it inhabits. Most...
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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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