{"title":"The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law","authors":"John C. Coates","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2639332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2639332","url":null,"abstract":"The Volcker rule, a key part of Congress’s response to the financial crisis, is best understood as a “structural law,” a traditional Anglo-American technique for governance of hybrid public-private institutions such as banks and central banks. The tradition extends much farther back in time than the Glass-Steagall Act, to which the Volcker Rule has been unfavorably (but unfairly) compared. The goals of the Volcker Rule are complex and ambitious, and not limited to reducing risk directly, but include reshaping banks’ organizational cultures. Another body of structural laws, part of the core of administrative law, attempts to restrain and discipline regulatory agencies, through process requirements such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Could the Volcker rule be the subject of reliable, precise, quantified CBA? Given the nature of the Volcker rule as structural law, its ambitions, and the current capacities of CBA, the answer is clearly “no,” as it would require regulators to anticipate, in advance of data, private market behavior in response to novel activity constraints. If administrative law is to improve regulatory implementation of structural laws such as the Volcker Rule, better fitting and more nuanced tools than CBA are needed.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131258837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging Markets - Is Today the Best Predictor of Tomorrow?","authors":"A. Zalewska","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1139119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1139119","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades capital markets around the world have developed faster than ever before. This is true whether we look at their size or the sophistication of the services that they provide. However, if the emerging markets are to play a significant part in the future capital market development, there are two critical questions that need to be answered. First, will the growth of the emerging markets observed over the last 25 years extend into the next few decades? Second, what are the prospects that these emerging markets will mature? This short article addresses these questions. It provides an overview of the growth of emerging markets and highlights the difficulties that emerging markets are likely to face in the future, unless appropriate measures to stimulate the development of good governance, legal and regulatory frameworks are introduced.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130592818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment, Regulation and Investors' Trust in the Securities Markets","authors":"Tamar Frankel","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.333340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.333340","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout history, the relationship between government regulation, investors' trust in the securities markets, and market prices has been a puzzle. Regulation is costly to issuers. Yet, in a bull market, when raising capital is easy, regulation relaxes and in a bear market, when raising capital is difficult, regulation tightens, often at the request of issuers. This paper suggests that investors view prices as surrogates of a fair and trusted market system. When they lose, they seek greater proof that the system is not ‘rigged.’ Regulation points to such assurances, as well as protection against cutthroat competition by securities distributors. This paper also suggests that after the recent market crash, even though investors seemed to stay in the markets, they did not actually do so. Those who invested in tax deferred plans could not escape the markets without paying a high tax penalty, so they moved within the mutual fund system to money market funds and bonds. Finally, this paper suggests that more than regulation may be needed to resurrect investors' trust today.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132886146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate restructuring in Japan","authors":"Jorge A. Chan-Lau","doi":"10.5089/9781451874402.001.A001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451874402.001.A001","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate restructuring, by addressing the excess capacity and debt overhang problems currently plaguing Japan’s corporate sector, is a key element in revitalizing the country’s economy. Towards this end, Japanese firms have been adopting new business practices and the government has engineered an ambitious and comprehensive package of reforms during the past years. The implementation of the Commercial Rehabilitation Law (CRL) on April 1, 2000, signaled that most of the official infrastructure conducive towards real restructuring was already in place. This article analyzes whether the new official infrastructure has helped the corporate sector to address the problems of excess capacity and to improve the current corporate governance system. Using event-study analysis, it finds that the market credibility of restructuring announcements based on better disclosure, mergers, and to a lesser extent, labor forced reductions, increased after the CRL implementation. Announcements aimed at reducing excess capacity were viewed skeptically by the market, though. These results suggest that reducing excess capital in Japan still requires substantial work.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134013456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projecting the economic impact of the Internet","authors":"Robert E. Litan, A. Rivlin","doi":"10.1257/aer.91.2.313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.2.313","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we analyze the impact of the Internet on the performance of the economy and the standard of living of average Americans. Our analyses illustrate that even though the stock market’s speculative bubble has burst, the Internet will continue to have a significant impact on old economy industries and as a result generate real benefits for the overall economy.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124245793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does capital mobility promote economic growth? The link to education","authors":"H. Egger, P. Egger, V. Grossmann","doi":"10.5167/UZH-2470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-2470","url":null,"abstract":"We provide a brief account of the ongoing debate on the relationship between international capital flows and economic growth. In particular, we argue that the current debate may be enriched by looking more closely at the relationship between these key variables and educational choice and public education policy.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114433758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons from the dark side of information use: The impact on people, values, and company performance","authors":"D. Marchand","doi":"10.1057/9780230305335_47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305335_47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129555647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reliability of Quarterly National Accounts in Seven Major Countries: A User's Perspective","authors":"Robert C. York, P. Atkinson","doi":"10.3233/JEM-1997-23401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/JEM-1997-23401","url":null,"abstract":"National accounts data provide the most comprehensive overview available of developments in national economies. They are of great interest to a wide range of users of economic information. These users, which include governments formulating budgetary policies, central banks making monetary policy decisions, businesses considering investment decisions, and financial institutions making judgments concerning portfolio allocation have needs which may differ in various respects. However, since their interest generally stems from the likelihood that they will make better decisions if they are well informed about economic developments, they all have a strong interest in the accuracy of national accounts statistics. This paper examines the reliability of preliminary quarterly national accounts statistics. In particular, it considers the longer-term behavior of the provisional estimates to GDP growth and its main expenditure components through an examination of the revisions to those estimates. It covers the seven largest OECD countries and, as such, updates and extends upon previous OECD analysis on the topic. Overall, the results are broadly similar to the earlier work; that preliminary estimates for output growth have not been statistically biased, although the average size of revisions has been large but smaller than those exhibited by the demand components of GDP.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116960821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The IFC's New Africa, Latin America, and Caribbean Fund: Its Worrisome Start, and How to Fix it","authors":"P. Keenan, Christiana Ochoa","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1839725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1839725","url":null,"abstract":"In April 2010 the International Finance Corporation announced the creation of the African, Latin American, and Caribbean fund, a new co-investment vehicle funded largely with commitments from sovereign wealth and pension funds. The fund's objective was to draw on the IFC and the World Bank's strengths in emerging markets to identify and support enterprises that might not otherwise have come to the attention of large investors and thereby help strengthen the private sector and alleviate poverty in some of the world's poorest countries. Unfortunately the fund has, so far, proven a disappointment. It has invested only in large corporations that were already well known to investors. The fund should return to the principles that seemed to motivate its creation: direct engagement with private enterprises, rather than politically-connected financial intermediaries; leveraging the World Bank's superior knowledge and understanding of emerging markets, rather than investing in corporations listed in London or Frankfurt; and providing capital to small- and medium-sized enterprises that would otherwise not have the support needed to grow and compete nationally or globally.","PeriodicalId":205947,"journal":{"name":"Journal of financial transformation","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126284252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}