Download or read book Redesigning the SEC written by John C. Coffee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 financial crisis has necessarily raised the question of regulatory redesign. Were regulatory failures responsible to any significant degree for the insolvency of the major investment banks? Even prior to the crisis's cresting, the Treasury Department issued a Blueprint in early 2008 concluding that the regulation of financial institutions in the U.S. was overly fragmented. This paper analyses both the Treasury Department's proposals and the role of the SEC in the rapid increase of leverage at major investment banks in the 2005 to 2008 era that led to their insolvency. Finding the SEC to be more competent at consumer protection and antifraud enforcement than at prudential financial regulation, this paper supports a twin peaks model for financial regulation in preference to either a universal regulator or the U.S.'s current system of functional regulation. It disagrees, however, with the Treasury's recommendation of greater reliance on self-regulation and principles over rules, finding that deference to self-regulation was at the heart of the SEC's recent failure in the Consolidated Supervised Entity Program and provides a paradigm of when self-regulation will fail. An alternative (and more modest) proposal is also made to Treasury's proposed preemption of state securities regulation. This article will appear in the 75th Anniversary SEC Symposium in the Virginia Law Review.
Download or read book Modernizing U S Securities Regulation written by Kenneth Lehn and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New developments in securities markets, particularly in the areas of technology, financial products, and foreign securities markets, are challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider its regulatory policies. This book offers detailed prescriptions for effective regulation from experienced regulators and noted scholars in the field. A definitive collection that illustrates how research and expert opinion can help the SEC frame issues and establish objective criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of its policies.
Download or read book Reconsidering the Institutional Design of Federal Securities Regulation written by Zachary James Gubler and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutional design literature is interested in the optimality of particular legal institutions, for example, judicial review of agency actions, corporate federalism, and environmental policy. This Article brings such an analysis to bear on federal securities regulation and argues that we could improve upon the current institutional structure. In particular, the Article proposes that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) be given even more decision-making authority than it currently has under the statutory scheme, effectively authorizing the agency to create disclosure rules for any firm that operates in interstate commerce. At the same time, the Article proposes that we place greater controls on the risk of regulatory error at the SEC by creating a statutory scheme that would place limits on the level of regulatory costs that the agency is permitted to impose on the firms that it regulates. By granting the expert agency more decision-making authority, while at the same time controlling the risk of error inherent in the SEC's complicated regulatory task, the Article argues that we could create an institutional structure that generates disclosure rules that are both smarter and less error-prone. The Article also sketches a possible policy approach along these lines.
Download or read book The SEC and Capital Market Regulation written by Anne M Khademian and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1992-11-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne M. Khademian addresses the significance of the SEC for securities policy and uses the agency as a model for the study of bureaucracy and bureaucratic theory. She examines the interaction of bureaucrats, politicians and the White House, and connects early debates in the field of public administration with the contemporary arguments of rational choice scholars concerning independence. The classic tension within U.S. federal agencies is between the need to hold bureaucrats politically accountable to elected officials and the need to delegate complex decision making to officials with "independent" expertise. In the SEC this tension is especially pronounced because of the agency's dependence on attorneys and economists. Khademian traces the development of a regulatory strategy from the creation of the SEC by FDR in 1934 to the present, examines the roles of SEC experts and their political overseers in Congress as they create policy, and evaluates the stability of that policy. Her study reveals how the tug-of-war between demands for accountability and giving freedom to expertise has affected the agency's evolution and its regulatory activities.
Download or read book Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Release written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intelligence Design written by Geoffrey Christopher Rapp and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contribution to the University of Cincinnati's spring 2013 symposium on “Addressing the Challenges of Protecting the Public: Enforcement Practices and Policies in the Post-Financial Crisis Era,” discusses the SEC's creation of a new Office of Market Intelligence in January, 2010. OMI was created in the aftermath of the Madoff scandal and charged with using advanced techniques to detect securities fraud and to process tips and complaints, including those arising from the Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty reward program. While it may be too soon to judge the success of the new Office, useful comparisons to other federal intelligence activities (such as in the national security context) and to the business tool of "Market Intelligence" can be drawn.
Download or read book The SEC and the Public Interest written by Susan M. Phillips and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the changing role and reputation of the Securities Exchange Commission since its foundation in 1934.
Download or read book Creating a Safer Financial System written by José Vinãls and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S., the U.K., and more recently, the E.U., have proposed policy measures directly targeting complexity and business structures of banks. Unlike other, price-based reforms (e.g., Basel 3 and G-SIFI surcharges), these proposals have been developed unilaterally with material differences in scope, design and implementation schedules. This may exacerbate cross-border regulatory arbitrage and put a further burden on consolidated supervision and cross-border resolution. This paper provides an analysis of the potential implications of implementing different structural policy measures. It proposes a pragmatic and coordinated approach to development of these policies to reduce risk of regulatory arbitrage and minimize unintended consequences. In doing so, it also aims to identify a set of common policy measures that countries could adopt to re-scope bank business models and corporate structures.
Download or read book Aligning Financial Supervisory Structures with Country Needs written by Jeffrey Carmichael and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the proceedings of an international conference on the regulation of financial institutions and supervisory structural reforms, held in Washington D.C., United States in December 2003 and involving participants from 52 countries. It considers case studies of experiences of regulatory reform approaches adopted in a number of countries including Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, Hungary and Estonia.
Download or read book SEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations written by CCH Incorporated and published by Aspen Law & Business. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a collection of "compliance and disclosure interpretations," previously known as "telephone interpretations," issued by the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance regarding the statutes, regulations and forms that it administers. Organized by topic and act, the manual provides helpful guidance on how the staff might proceed under various regulatory scenarios. SEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations includes links to the controlling authority (e.g., law section, rule, item, form), as well as history notes indicating when the interpretation was issued, modified and/or rescinded. Coverage includes new and revised interpretations issued through September 14, 2009, e.g., new guidance on Regulation 13D-G (see Chapter 10); Regulation FD (see Chapter 18), Regulation S-K (see Chapter 6), Exchange Act rules and forms (see Chapters 8 and 14), Regulation S-T (see Chapter 20), and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (see Chapter 21). Periodic updates. The book is available in print, online as an individual title or as part of the Federal Securities Regulation Integrated Library.
Download or read book Regulation of Securities written by Steven Mark Levy and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulation of Securities: SEC Compliance and Practice 2003 Edition is a comprehensive guide to understanding and complying with the day-to-day requirements of the federal securities laws. Using a question and answer format similar to that which the SEC has embraced, this guide provides public corporations, lawyers, and accountants, As well as company officers, directors, and large shareholders with straightforward answers To The most frequently asked questions on securities regulation and convenient access To The relevant rules, procedures, caselaw, and forms. The 2003 edition of Regulation of Securities: SEC Compliance and Practice significantly expands and updates the previous edition and includes chapters on: Introduction to securities regulation, including the modernized EDGAR system Periodic reporting under sections 13(a) and 15 (d) Reporting of beneficial ownership under sections 13(d) and 13(g) Insider reporting under section 16(a) Short-swing trading and exemptions under section 16(b) Tender offer disclosure requirements Proxy solicitations under section 14(a) Securities fraud under Rule 10b-5 Use of electronic media Selling restricted and control securities under Rule 144 Private resales to institutional investors under Rule 144A Going private transactions under Rule 13e-3
Download or read book The Transformation of Wall Street written by Joel Seligman and published by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. This book was released on 2003 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1977, "The Transformation of Wall Street" has offered an in-depth look at the history of the SEC's origins, accomplishments, and failings since its creation in 1934. This updated third edition continues the history until 2001, the end of Arthur Levitt's Chairmanship, with a treatment of auditing issues through the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act .
Download or read book The Road Ahead for the Fed written by John B. Taylor and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert contributors examine the recent actions of the Federal Reserve and suggest directions for the Fed going forward by drawing on past political, historical, and market principles. They explain how the Fed arrived at its current position, offer ideas on how to exit the situation, and propose new market-based reforms that can help keep the Fed on the road to good monetary policy in the future.
Download or read book Feedback Systems written by Karl Johan Åström and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential introduction to the principles and applications of feedback systems—now fully revised and expanded This textbook covers the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. Now more user-friendly than ever, this revised and expanded edition of Feedback Systems is a one-volume resource for students and researchers in mathematics and engineering. It has applications across a range of disciplines that utilize feedback in physical, biological, information, and economic systems. Karl Åström and Richard Murray use techniques from physics, computer science, and operations research to introduce control-oriented modeling. They begin with state space tools for analysis and design, including stability of solutions, Lyapunov functions, reachability, state feedback observability, and estimators. The matrix exponential plays a central role in the analysis of linear control systems, allowing a concise development of many of the key concepts for this class of models. Åström and Murray then develop and explain tools in the frequency domain, including transfer functions, Nyquist analysis, PID control, frequency domain design, and robustness. Features a new chapter on design principles and tools, illustrating the types of problems that can be solved using feedback Includes a new chapter on fundamental limits and new material on the Routh-Hurwitz criterion and root locus plots Provides exercises at the end of every chapter Comes with an electronic solutions manual An ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students Indispensable for researchers seeking a self-contained resource on control theory
Download or read book Higher Education Opportunity Act written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redesigning Financial Regulation written by Justin O'Brien and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the 1990s boom, Jack Grubman, one of the most successful analysts in Wall Street proclaimed ‘what used to be conflicts of interest are now synergies’. This myopia contributed dramatically to the elevation of a culture in which greed was deified, oversight denigrated and misfeasance justified. Since the fall of the markets and the implosion of confidence in the American corporate business model, one man has proved instrumental in deconstructing the rhetoric of the 1990s: Eliot Spitzer, the combative Attorney General of New York. In the process, his innovative application of state law has reconfigured the governance of Wall Street. Over the past three years the pursuit of transparency and accountability in the structure of the markets has propelled Spitzer to the forefront of regulatory policy. His investigations into tainted analyst research, the mutual funds industry, the governance of the New York Stock Exchange and the insurance industry have focused attention not just on corrupted individuals but also the complicity of the financial structure itself. Spitzer exploited the inherent conflicts of interest to the full, forcing regulators to adopt a much more proactive approach and creating a national platform for his own wider political ambitions. Now holding the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York, Spitzer has begun a path for higher national office. This groundbreaking book features exclusive access with many of the key actors in these changes to the governance of Wall Street. It examines how Eliot Spitzer exploited gaps in the regulatory framework to capture the corporate reform agenda and explores the implications of his actions on policy formation and recalibration. Key incidents include: changing the terms of reference governing analyst research; the defenestration of Dick Grasso’s tenure over the NYSE (which is now being heard in state court in New York); and the battles for control between the former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, Harvey Pitt, and Spitzer. The book details not only the contested, contingent and interdependent connections between the American political and financial systems but reveals how Spitzer’s manipulation of those connections have proved instrumental in enhancing his own wider political ambitions.
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
