The paper deals with an issue of interrelation between law, economics and economy. For a long time, legal science has been interconnected with economics; nonetheless, it was economics which diverted from their mutual cohabitation. At the present time, it is the case of economists who applying...

This paper uses a natural experiment to measure market response to the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Because SOX applies to all US public companies, US-based studies have difficulty separating the effects of contemporaneous events. However, controlled analysis is available: SOX...

Significant differences persist among the European Union and the United States in the regulation of issuers’ disclosure obligations on material corporate information. Lawmakers on either side of the Atlantic strive to pursue the same goals of market transparency and efficiency. However, in the...

An expert network enabled the largest insider trading scheme ever discovered and charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). As complex information webs circulating money for information, expert networks are significant and relevant to the financial system, generating over...

Using text from 200 million pages of 13,000 US local newspapers and machine learning methods, we construct a 170-year-long measure of economic sentiment at the country and state levels, that expands existing measures in both the time series (by more than a century) and the cross-section. Our...

In what ways can changes to the structure of regulation (as well as other regulatory reforms) mitigate the effects of policies which trigger financial instability? More specifically policies, information asymmetries or externalities which could give rise to bank contagion, systemic/liquidity...

En este trabajo, a partir de un marco tributario que considera tanto los objetivos de la política tributaria de un país como sus efectos, se analizan los distintos impuestos que afectan al mercado de capitales en Chile. Dicho análisis junto a una exhaustiva revisión de la literatura...

After the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers focused on enacting improvements in two areas of financial regulation: capital and liquidity, affecting the composition of bank assets and the sources of bank funding. These improvements made both the emergence of a crisis less likely and the...

This is a case study of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merger. It is based on the article, Fiduciary Exemption for Public Necessity: Shareholder Profit, Public Good, and the Hobson's Choice during a National Crisis, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 661 (2010). The case study analyzes the...