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Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar...
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Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...
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The article explores the legislative and regulatory responses to the global financial crisis, from a US-EU comparative perspective, focusing on the measures dealing with banks' and financial intermediaries' distress. A dual-stage approach in both legal systems is identified: the first, aiming to...
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Today international society faces a challenge in addressing the global financial crises. Despites never-ending debating on the key causes of financial crises, it seems quite certain that there do exist a great deal of "uncertainty" in global financial market. Unlike risk, uncertainty cannot be...
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Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is the world’s standard-setter on financial reporting. This Article focuses on the adoption of … IFRS around the world and provides a better framework for analyzing the IFRS adoption process as an example of … adopted IFRS did so under pressure from international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund …
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It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some countries and industries were showing...
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This paper's hypothesis is that the international standard setting bodies (SSBs) could improve the quality of their international standards by incorporating a human rights analysis. It focuses on five SSBs and seven of their international standards and its findings include the following: First,...
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