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This article looks at New Zealand's conduct of business rules for financial advisers. It compares New Zealand's rules to conduct of business rules applicable in the United Kingdom and Australia. There are major respects in which New Zealand's conduct of business rules fall behind best practice,...
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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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. The discussion shows how regulation that was enacted in response to a major economic crisis not only failed to prevent a …
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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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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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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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This paper studies the specificities of the regulation of shadow banking in the EU. It argues that the idiosyncratic …
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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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regulation. It proceeds by identifying four “interdependence problems” relating to harmonization of financial standards, capital … regulation than are efforts to reduce losses from financial instability, which will likely continue to be ineffective despite … to centrally administer international financial regulation are unlikely to succeed, because they misstate the underlying …
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