This Article examines the cumulative welfare effect of the application of the U.S. regulatory regime on foreign private issuers (FPI) and whether the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law creates unnecessary risks deterring crosslistings. To assess the deterrence effect and optimality of...

This Article uses a rational choice analysis to simplify the increasingly complex area of international financial regulation. It proceeds by identifying four “interdependence problems” relating to harmonization of financial standards, capital requirements, bank resolution procedures, and an...

International financial relations have largely been defined by cross-border trade, foreign direct investments, and global banking relations. This paper demonstrates that another activity, sovereign investments by special vehicles known as sovereign wealth funds, is rapidly redefining the...

Especially since the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, once more we have seen more focused interest in the use of SWFs by home states — less as a means of projecting sovereign financial power outwards and more as a means of internal financial management, and development....

This is the introduction to an edited volume of papers on International Financial Institutions and International Law. The introduction provides an explanation of the editors motivation for undertaking this book project and an overview of the chapters in the book