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Inadequate regulation of the financial system is widely thought to have contributed to the financial crisis. The … purpose of the book is to articulate a framework within which financial regulation can be analysed in a coherent and … regulation is best understood in the context of an appreciation of the entire financial system. Third it is international and …
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We analyze the partisanship of Securities and Exchange Commissioners (SEC) and members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Fed) using the language-based approach of Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Taddy (Econometrica, 2019). The level of partisanship among these regulators is greater than that of...
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Many regulators have concluded that cost-benefit analysis is the best available method for capturing the welfare effects of regulations. It is therefore understandable that in recent years, some people have been interested in requiring financial regulators to engage in careful cost-benefit...
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This paper focuses on the impact of financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and of their regulation on the post … FMIs regulation. By reviewing the current move from ‘private' markets to ‘public' markets internationally, and with respect …
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Following every major financial debacle (of which we now have had three in the span of a decade – the Asian crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the subprime crisis), all the parties that bear some responsibility for the soundness of financial institutions come under scrutiny – the managers (and...
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FinTech holds great potential for both financial inclusion and economic development in a wider sense. Digital financial solutions have been expanding access and reach to consumers, especially the unbanked and under-banked. They have been significantly lowering the costs of providing financial...
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One of the hallmarks of the SEC's investigative process is that it is shrouded in secrecy––only the SEC staff, high-level managers of the company being investigated, and outside counsel are typically aware of active investigations. We obtain novel data on all investigations closed by the SEC...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to propose new mandatory disclosure rules on climate change without further statutory authority from Congress. The purpose of this comment is to explain that the SEC does not currently have statutory authority to adopt such disclosure rules....
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regulation are no exception. This article discusses the promise of evidence-based policymaking in accounting and financial …
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