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Regulating Dynamic Risk In Changing Market Conditions, Susan Navarro Smelcer, Anne Tucker, Yusen Xia Apr 2022

Regulating Dynamic Risk In Changing Market Conditions, Susan Navarro Smelcer, Anne Tucker, Yusen Xia

William & Mary Business Law Review

How successful are the SEC's attempts to regulate dynamic risk in financial markets? Using mutual fund disclosure data from two financial shocks--the Puerto Rican debt crisis and COVID-19--this Article finds evidence that SEC open-ended regulations, like the obligation to disclose changing market conditions, are largely successful in capturing dynamic, future risk. Funds engage in widespread and, often, detailed disclosures for new risks--although these disclosures vary widely in specificity. But not all funds disclose new risks. This creates perverse incentives for funds to opt out of disclosure or downplay threats with boilerplate language when new risks are emerging. This Article recommends …


Chinese Regulation Of Issuer Earnings Forecasts: Recommendations For An Ex Ante Legal Framework, Chengxi Yao Mar 2016

Chinese Regulation Of Issuer Earnings Forecasts: Recommendations For An Ex Ante Legal Framework, Chengxi Yao

William & Mary Business Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Cost Of Securities Fraud, Urska Velikonja May 2013

The Cost Of Securities Fraud, Urska Velikonja

William & Mary Law Review

Under the dominant account, fraudulent financial reporting by public firms harms the firms' shareholders and, more generally, capital markets. This Article contends that the account is incomplete. In addition to undermining investor confidence, misreporting distorts economic decision making by all firms, both those committing fraud and those not. False information impairs risk assessment by those who provide human or financial capital to fraudulent firms, the firms' suppliers and customers, and thus misdirects capital and labor to subpar projects. Efforts to hide fraud and avoid detection further distort fraudulent firms' business decisions, as well as decisions by their rivals, who mimic …


Insider Trading, Informed Trading, And Market Making: Liquidity Of Securities Markets In The Zero-Sum Game, Stanislav Dolgopolov Feb 2012

Insider Trading, Informed Trading, And Market Making: Liquidity Of Securities Markets In The Zero-Sum Game, Stanislav Dolgopolov

William & Mary Business Law Review

This Article reexamines the nexus of relationships among informed transactions, information asymmetry, and liquidity of securities markets in the context of public policy debates about insider trading and its regulation.The Article analyzes this nexus, with the emphasis on recent empirical studies and developments in the securities industry, from a variety of perspectives and considers the validity of the alleged link between insider trading—as opposed to other forms of informed trading—and market liquidity as a justification for the existence of regulation.


Betting The Farm: The Tic Turf War And Why Tics Constitute Investment Contracts Under Federal Securities Laws, David Rich Apr 2010

Betting The Farm: The Tic Turf War And Why Tics Constitute Investment Contracts Under Federal Securities Laws, David Rich

William & Mary Business Law Review

No abstract provided.


No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Establishing A Self-Evaluating Privilege For Corporate Internal Investigations, Theodore R. Lotchin Dec 2004

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Establishing A Self-Evaluating Privilege For Corporate Internal Investigations, Theodore R. Lotchin

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Technological Evolution And The Devolution Of Corporate Financial Reporting, Donald C. Langevoort Oct 2004

Technological Evolution And The Devolution Of Corporate Financial Reporting, Donald C. Langevoort

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Materiality And The Efficient Capital Market Model: A Recipe From The Total Mix, Roger J. Dennis Apr 1983

Materiality And The Efficient Capital Market Model: A Recipe From The Total Mix, Roger J. Dennis

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Regulation D: Coherent Exemptions For Small Businesses Under The Securities Act Of 1933, Marvin R. Mohney Oct 1982

Regulation D: Coherent Exemptions For Small Businesses Under The Securities Act Of 1933, Marvin R. Mohney

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fairness Requirement In Section 3(A)(10) Of The Securities Act Of 1933, Bruce H. Matson Mar 1982

Fairness Requirement In Section 3(A)(10) Of The Securities Act Of 1933, Bruce H. Matson

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rule 242 And Section 4(6) Securities Registration Exemptions: Recent Attempts To Aid Small Businesses, Susan E. Satkowski Oct 1981

Rule 242 And Section 4(6) Securities Registration Exemptions: Recent Attempts To Aid Small Businesses, Susan E. Satkowski

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Private Enforcement Of The Federal Proxy Rules: Remedial Alternatives Dec 1973

Private Enforcement Of The Federal Proxy Rules: Remedial Alternatives

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.