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A Comparative Analysis Of Shareholder Derivative Litigations In Taiwan: Rethinking Of Law, Implementation, And Suggestion, Ting-Hsien Cheng
A Comparative Analysis Of Shareholder Derivative Litigations In Taiwan: Rethinking Of Law, Implementation, And Suggestion, Ting-Hsien Cheng
Maurer Theses and Dissertations
Since the 1990s, Taiwan’s capital market has been tarnished by several corporate scandals, many involving managerial embezzlements and false/misleading financial reports. One of the main reasons why these scandals frequently occurred is the lack of an effective system of checks-and-balances or good corporate governance mechanisms within Taiwan’s companies. To deal with this deficiency for corporate governance, there have been many discussions in Taiwan’s academia of corporate laws about how to reform the provisions of Taiwan Company Act, especially for a better internal monitoring mechanism.
In fact, in last two decades, Taiwan has taken a series of legal reforms as an …
Rethinking Hedge Fund Regulation: Focusing On The U.S., The U.K., And Korea, Eun Jip Kim
Rethinking Hedge Fund Regulation: Focusing On The U.S., The U.K., And Korea, Eun Jip Kim
Maurer Theses and Dissertations
Until the global financial crisis in 2008, hedge funds had relied on various safe harbor rules to remain unregulated. Since then, various subprime mortgage crisis-driven regulatory reforms have been made worldwide. Through the implementation of registration and reporting obligations the hedge fund regulatory framework has been changed to reinforce regulations that may provide financial stability, making hedge funds more like other regulated entities.
Current hedge fund regulations are based on the policy grounds, on one hand, that macro-prudential regulations are necessary due to the potential adverse effects on the market from hedge fund size and leverage positions, and on the …
Plugging Leaks And Lowering Levees In The Federal Government: Practical Solutions For Securities Trading Based On Political Intelligence, Donna M. Nagy, Richard Painter
Plugging Leaks And Lowering Levees In The Federal Government: Practical Solutions For Securities Trading Based On Political Intelligence, Donna M. Nagy, Richard Painter
Articles by Maurer Faculty
From its founding, the federal government of the United States has been a potential gold mine for nonpublic market-moving information. By selectively disclosing this information to securities traders outside the government (or to persons who advise them), federal officials can substantially privilege certain wealthy or otherwise well-connected investors over ordinary investors in the securities market. The trading profits that can be derived from the use of this material nonpublic government information are often tremendous.
This disparity of access to government information may be unfair. But absent an identifiable personal benefit on the part of the government insider, neither the selective …