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Full-Text Articles in Securities Law
A Business Ethics Perspective On Sarbanes-Oxley And The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, David Hess
A Business Ethics Perspective On Sarbanes-Oxley And The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, David Hess
Michigan Law Review
This Article assesses the ability of Sarbanes-Oxley and other recent changes in the law and stock exchange listing requirements to reduce the incidence of fraud and to increase the reporting of financial misconduct. It begins by examining the individual decision-makers within a corporation and analyzing their intentions and behaviors under the Theory of Planned Behavior. It then examines the ability of the organization to influence the employees' intentions and behaviors through codes of ethics and compliance programs, and finds growing support for the usefulness of integrity based compliance programs. Finally, the Article considers how the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Organizational Sentencing …
The Sec And The Public Interest, Michigan Law Review
The Sec And The Public Interest, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The SEC and the Public Interest by Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecher
Social Investing And The Law Of Trusts, John H. Langbein, Richard A. Posner
Social Investing And The Law Of Trusts, John H. Langbein, Richard A. Posner
Michigan Law Review
In Part I, after presenting a brief primer on the economics of securities markets, we analyze the economic and policy issues presented by social investing. We conclude that the usual forms of social investing involve a combination of reduced diversification and higher administrative costs not offset by net consumption gains to the investment beneficiaries. Social investing may therefore be economically unsound even though there is no reason to expect a portfolio constructed in accordance with the usual principles of social investment to yield a below-average rate of return - provided that administrative costs are ignored.
Part II relates our policy …