Participants in the U.S. capital markets can be sued for securities fraud by a mishmash of enforcers, including the SEC …

fraudulent activities, studies on regulatory and market-based mechanisms that help to deter or detect fraud and on what affects … the efficiency of such mechanisms, and studies on the economic and social consequences of financial fraud. I outline the …

We estimate what percentage of firms engage in fraud and the economic cost of fraud. Our estimates are based on … detected frauds, and frauds that we infer are started but are not caught. To identify the ‘iceberg' of undetected fraud we take … advantage of an exogenous shock to the incentives for fraud detection: Arthur Andersen's demise, which forces companies to …

corporate signals and securities fraud. The incentive to communicate using corporate signals has increased in recent years, a … federal securities laws aimed at better deterring fraud and making companies more transparent. The Article makes three major … design antifraud provisions under the securities laws in order to reduce total fraud, instead of simply rechanneling …

whether Omnicare's teachings apply equally to opinions actionable as securities fraud. In addition, the elements of scienter … applies equally to securities fraud actions; (2) post-Omnicare, statements of opinion must be both disbelieved by the speaker …

This Article analyzes approaches to attaching liability for securities fraud to high-frequency traders as primary … practices of high-frequency traders as securities fraud …

We examine the effect of insider share pledges on corporate fraud. We find a positive, causal relation between share … pledges by controlling shareholders and detected corporate fraud. Firms whose controlling shareholders pledge have longer … fraud detection cycles and receive lighter punishments. Firms with pledging controlling shareholders who hold pledging …

securities fraud case involving social media; in fact, in United States v. Schena and United States v. Milton, two different CEOs … were convicted of criminal securities fraud based on tweeting activity. Though defendants question the role of social media … enforcement actions by the SEC that suggests that though social media statements are not yet rich fodder for securities fraud …

transaction. Fraud on a distribution fund is not securities fraud …