This paper uses three alternating changes in hedge fund regulation to study whether regulation reduces hedge funds …' misreporting, and, if so, why regulation is effective. Relative to public companies, hedge fund regulation is relatively light …, providing that they disclose their lack of compliance. The results show that regulation reduces misreporting at hedge funds …

The global financial crisis has further highlighted the importance of bank capital regulation for the stability of the … banking system. This article aims to reconcile the views of the academics and regulators about bank capital regulation …. Lightweight and procyclical bank capital regulation with ample possibilities for regulatory arbitrage has contributed to the pre …

about the current status of banking regulation and supervision. Our unique starting point for answering that question comes … from the fact that 20 years ago we developed the first detailed, multi-country database on banking regulation and … from the most recent (2011-2012) World Bank survey on banking supervision and regulation. Key observations emerging from …

, the European Union has engaged in an ambitious overhaul of banking regulation. One of its centerpieces, the 2013 Fourth …

The history of regulation in America is as old as the republic itself. Since colonial times, Americans have struggled … regulation to eras of greater permissiveness has enormous implications for economic growth. This paper examines the development … of regulation in the US from the 19th century up to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer …

be regulated. Currently regulators are pursuing a "Red Queen" approach to regulation and running ever faster to stay in … the same place. Complexity can only be controlled with matching complexity, which is why current models of regulation for …

/methodology/approach – Kane's regulatory dialectic suggests that regulation of financial institutions is a series of cyclical interactions between …