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Mismanagement Of Emerging Stock Markets: Analysis Of The Role Played By "Legislative Infidelity" - A Norm Of Int'l Economic Jurisprudence - In The N8.1tn ($60bn) Crash Of Nigeria Stock Market, Collins U.C. Ikebudu Apr 2011

Mismanagement Of Emerging Stock Markets: Analysis Of The Role Played By "Legislative Infidelity" - A Norm Of Int'l Economic Jurisprudence - In The N8.1tn ($60bn) Crash Of Nigeria Stock Market, Collins U.C. Ikebudu

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The crash of Nigeria stock market which occurred between 2008 and 2009 was unusual. Events that preceded the crash, misconducts of market operators and regulators before, during, and after the crash, the reckless hypes and spins that generated lots of frenzied trading leading to the astronomical rise of Nigeria stock market to number one position in the world, and the synchronization and magnitude of the crash that followed - all exhibit signs of organized scheme.

Thanks to the English Bubble Act of 1720 with which South Sea Corporation precipitated a one hundred and five years securities fraud in Britain, the …