Topic
Systemic Risk
220 published works
Securities Law Prof Blog
Davidoff on Regulatory Reform
Filling Gaps and Black Holes: Restructuring the Financial Regulatory Apparatus for the Next Crisis (Written Testimony for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on the Adequacy of…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Dickinson on Credit Default Swaps
Credit Default Swaps: So Dear to Us, So Dangerous, by Eric Dickinson, Fordham University - School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Credit-default swaps (CDS) are…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Dombalagian on Investment Banks & Systemic Risk
'Too Interconnected to Fail?': Investment Banks and Systemic Risk, by Onnig H. Dombalagian, Tulane Law School, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:I argue that the most efficient…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Financial Armageddon?
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
Everyone is totally freaking out, or totally under-appreciating (take your pick) what is happening on Wall St. right now. Before I give my $0.02, I'd like to point out to…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Paulson Calls for Expanded Role for Fed Reserve
Treasury Secretary Paulson, in a speech in London, refined his vision for a modern U.S. financial regulatory structure, first outlined in the Treasury Dept's Blueprint released in March. Noting that…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Paulson on Market Reform
Excerpt from Remarks by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Economy and Markets before Women in Housing and Finance, June 19, 2008:When we published the Blueprint in March, I made…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Schwarcz on Systemic Risk
Systemic Risk, by STEVEN L. SCHWARCZ, Duke University School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article is the first major work of legal scholarship…
PropertyProf Blog
Schwarcz on Risk and the Subprime Crisis
By propertyprof
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke) has posted Markets, Systemic Risk, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The subprime mortgage crisis is undermining financial market stability and has the…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Schwarcz on Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Markets, Systemic Risk, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, by STEVEN L. SCHWARCZ, Duke University School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The subprime mortgage crisis is…
Securities Law Prof Blog
GAO Releases Report on Hedge Funds
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today on Hedge Funds (GAO-08-200). The Report explains that after the near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, regulators generally…