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government's "light-touch" regulatory approach. With the incoming tightening regulation foreshadowed by the Interim Measures for … FinTech and online micro-lending subsidiary of Alibaba, will retool for harsher regulation or to witness a forthcoming demise … regulation in China for FinTech-based consumer lending is prioritizing consumer protection over economic success, especially in …
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will offer a guide to the antitrust community that will cover the U.S. financial sector, financial regulation, and the … debacle and subsequent financial crisis. The tensions that can arise between financial regulation and antitrust will be … market power. Although much progress has been made in removing anticompetitive elements from financial regulation over the …
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The paper focuses on the process of liberalization of the electricity market and its functioning in the EU. The … European electricity market is in the middle of its transformation from a monopolistic state-owned production and distribution … to privatized markets with various competing firms. The basic objective of liberalization of the electricity market has …
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crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …
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Financial regulation should be countercyclical, strengthening during speculative booms to contain excessive leverage … and loosening following crises so as to not limit credit extension in hard times. And yet, financial regulation in fact … choice perspective on financial regulation, i.e. rational choice ideas drawn from economics and applied to politics, but with …
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problem. In the short run, we need relatively modest but firm regulation. Dodd-Frank looks pretty good in many ways, but still …
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This study examines the effect of SEC regulations on firm valuations and corporate policies over the past 50 years. I build a time-varying and industry-specific measure of SEC regulatory restrictions, based on the universe of effective SEC rules and machine-learning relevance of the regulations...
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An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity. Supervisors forcing banks to recognize losses could choke off lending and amplify local economic woes. But stricter supervision could also change how banks assess and manage...
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The benefits of top down financial reporting regulation over the past eight decades are less obvious than its failures …
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