In response to the Great Recession, Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, in late July 2010. Dodd-Frank represented the most expansive federal securities legislation since the Great Depression, and given the timing of...

This manuscript builds on my existing research program that (a) broadly seeks to analyze laws, regulations, instruments, and policy levers that inhibit a market's ability to recognize an asset's intrinsic value, whether in terms of financial, social, or human capital, and (b) explores and...