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Imperfect Alternatives: Networks, Salience, And Institutional Design In Financial Crises, Robert B. Ahdieh

Robert B. Ahdieh

With the benefit of hindsight — and some aspiration to foresight — it is useful to consider the type of regulatory regime that might best address financial crises. What could policymakers have done to prevent the recent crisis? And once the crisis started, what interventions might have alleviated it? These questions have been widely debated, with an eye to both substantive policy and the design of effective regulatory institutions. This Article speaks to the latter project — one of comparative institutional analysis — though with a framework that implicates our substantive policy choices as well. It begins with an account …

Imperfect Alternatives: Networks, Salience, And Institutional Design In Financial Crises, Robert B. Ahdieh

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With the benefit of hindsight — and some aspiration to foresight — it is useful to consider the type of regulatory regime that might best address financial crises. What could policymakers have done to prevent the recent crisis? And once the crisis started, what interventions might have alleviated it? These questions have been widely debated, with an eye to both substantive policy and the design of effective regulatory institutions. This Article speaks to the latter project — one of comparative institutional analysis — though with a framework that implicates our substantive policy choices as well. It begins with an account …

Poisoned Flowers In Cyberspace: Resolving Focal Point Abuses And Tradmark-Related Conflicts In Space By Rewriting Code, Thomas C. Folsom

Thomas C. Folsom

In cyberspace, dynamically coded focal points don’t just provide salient references. They can actually deliver a person’s augmented presence to a location. Placing reliable focal points as navigational markers in coded space is useful and indexing them is even better because these activities support the public good by providing a virtual map to cyberspace, thereby promoting access, navigation, information-activity and trust among augmented presences. In an objective cyberspace which relies upon a virtual map featuring dynamically coded focal points functioning as markers, addresses, magnets, roadblocks or detours, I propose that conduct which (a) alters the virtual map, (b) plants deceptive …

The New Regulation: From Command To Coordination In The Modern Administrative State, Robert B. Ahdieh

Robert B. Ahdieh