This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003). We find only partial support...

There are common aspects found in the corporate law of the most important economies, such as the free transferability of shares, legal personality, and limited liability. Those aspects, however, develop in different ways and speeds in each country, as they are a product of local economic and...

The central problem for financial regulation is reducing systemic risk. Systemic risk is the risk that the failure of one significant institution can cause or significantly contribute to the failure of other significant institutions. This paper addresses the five most important policies for...

With traditional domestic imbalances long under control, the Chilean business cycle is driven by external shocks. Most importantly, Chile's external vulnerability is primarily a financial problem. A decline in the Chilean terms-of-trade, for example, is associated to a decline in real GDP that...

In this survey article, we summarize the evidence from the extant literature on how sovereign laws and their enforcement impact outside investor protection, and the development of capital markets and individual firms. The body of evidence indicates the legal protections conferred on outside...

This chapter describes the past and present regulatory reporting landscape for U.S. swap data and financial market infrastructures (FMIs). It argues that standards are essential to ensure that both the data and the technology supporting the reporting process are fit for purpose and are dynamic...

This article argues that there is a fundamental mismatch between the nature of finance and current approaches to financial regulation. Today's financial system is a dynamic and complex ecosystem. For these and other reasons, policy makers and market actors regularly have only a fraction of the...

The safety of repurchase agreements (repos) depends on the neoclassical premise that markets are reliable sources of liquidity; repos in practice disprove the theory by generating collateral calls, collateral sales, liquidity events and liquidity-driven losses for repo-borrowing funds and their...

There exists a well-developed statistical theory predicting extreme price values for financial markets known as extreme value theory (EVT). This approach relies on the seemingly obvious, but rarely analyzed, assumption that price displacement extremes actually exist for various markets. This...