Carnegie Mellon University
University of San Francisco
Cornell University
University of Massachusetts Boston
Normalization Policies With Cuba: Implications For Political And Economic Reform,
2016
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Normalization Policies With Cuba: Implications For Political And Economic Reform, Ramona N. Khan
All Graduate Works by Year: Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
For longer than the past half century, the relationship between the United States and Cuba has been one of antagonism, mistrust, betrayal, hostility and defiance. Decades of mutual hostility arising from Cuba’s post revolution adoption of an economic system that emulated that of the Soviet Union, along with the long history of U.S. interference in Cuba’s domestic and international affairs that predated the Castro revolution and continued afterward, have resulted in this rancorous relationship. Cuba’s move to communism shortly after the Castro regime came to power was regarded as a threat to both democracy and capitalism ...
China And Africa’S Peace And Security Agenda: The Burgeoning Appetite,
2016
University of Johannesburg
China And Africa’S Peace And Security Agenda: The Burgeoning Appetite, Oita Etyang, Simon Oswan Panyako
Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies
China and Africa have had contacts since time immemorial. It is, however, in the last two decades that China vastly increased its engagement with Africa, following the first Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that took place in 2000 and the Beijing Summit held in 2006. China has skillfully utilized its international strategy of multipolarity and non-interference to champion its economic interests as well as its hegemonic quest. It is undeniable that China has heavily invested in Africa through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), and infrastructure development. China has also increased its appetite on matters peace and security ...
Vultures Or Vanguards?: The Role Of Litigation In Sovereign Debt Restructuring,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Vultures Or Vanguards?: The Role Of Litigation In Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Jill E. Fisch, Caroline M. Gentile
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
The New Federal Regulation Of Corporate Governance,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The New Federal Regulation Of Corporate Governance, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
The Mess At Morgan: Risk, Incentives And Shareholder Empowerment,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Mess At Morgan: Risk, Incentives And Shareholder Empowerment, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
The financial crisis of 2008 focused increasing attention on corporate America and, in particular, the risk-taking behavior of large financial institutions. A growing appreciation of the “public” nature of the corporation resulted in a substantial number of high profile enforcement actions. In addition, demands for greater accountability led policymakers to attempt to harness the corporation’s internal decision-making structure, in the name of improved corporate governance, to further the interest of non-shareholder stakeholders. Dodd-Frank’s advisory vote on executive compensation is an example.
This essay argues that the effort to employ shareholders as agents of public values and, thereby, to ...
The Scope Of Private Securities Litigation: In Search Of Liability Standards For Secondary Defendants,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Scope Of Private Securities Litigation: In Search Of Liability Standards For Secondary Defendants, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
Recent federal court decisions have struggled to apply the Supreme Court's decision in Central Bank v. First Interstate to determine when outside professionals should be held liable as primary violators under section IO(b) of the Securities Exchange Act. In keeping with the Court's current interpretive methodology, Central Bank and its progeny employ a textualist approach. In this Article, Professor Fisch argues that literal textualism is an inappropriate approach for interpreting the federal securities laws generally and misguided in light of legislative developments post-dating the Central Bank decision. Instead, Professor Fisch advocates an approach that weighs Congress 's ...
The Securities Analyst As Agent: Rethinking The Regulation Of Analysts,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Securities Analyst As Agent: Rethinking The Regulation Of Analysts, Jill E. Fisch, Hillary A. Sale
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Teaching Corporate Governance Through Shareholder Litigation,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Teaching Corporate Governance Through Shareholder Litigation, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Regulatory Responses To Investor Irrationality: The Case Of The Research Analyst,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Regulatory Responses To Investor Irrationality: The Case Of The Research Analyst, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
An extensive body of behavioral economics literature suggests that investors do not behave with perfect rationality. Instead, investors are subject to a variety of biases that may cause them to react inappropriately to information. The policy challenge posed by this observation is to identify the appropriate response to investor irrationality. In particular, should regulators attempt to protect investors from bad investment decisions that may be the result of irrational behavior?
This Article considers the appropriate regulatory response to investor irrationality within the concrete context of the research analyst. Many commentators have argued that analyst conflicts of interest led to biased ...
Fidicuiary Duties And The Analyst Scandals,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Fidicuiary Duties And The Analyst Scandals, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
From Legitimacy To Logic: Reconstructing Proxy Regulation,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
From Legitimacy To Logic: Reconstructing Proxy Regulation, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Imprudent Power: Reconsidering U.S. Regulation Of Foreign Tender Offers,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Imprudent Power: Reconsidering U.S. Regulation Of Foreign Tender Offers, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
On Beyond Calpers: Survey Evidence On The Developing Role Of Public Pension Funds In Corporate Governance,
2016
NYU Law School
On Beyond Calpers: Survey Evidence On The Developing Role Of Public Pension Funds In Corporate Governance, Stephen Choi, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Criminalization Of Corporate Law: The Impact On Shareholders And Other Constituents,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Criminalization Of Corporate Law: The Impact On Shareholders And Other Constituents, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Does Analyst Independence Sell Investors Short?,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Does Analyst Independence Sell Investors Short?, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
Regulators responded to the analyst scandals of the late 1990s by imposing extensive new rules on the research industry. These rules include a requirement forcing financial firms to separate investment banking operations from research. Regulators argued, with questionable empirical support, that the reforms were necessary to eliminate analyst conflicts of interest and ensure the integrity of sell-side research.
By eliminating investment banking revenues as a source for funding research, the reforms have had substantial effects. Research coverage of small issuers has been dramatically reduced—the vast majority of small capitalization firms now have no coverage at all. The market for ...
Class Action Reform: Lessons From Securities Litigation,
2016
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Class Action Reform: Lessons From Securities Litigation, Jill E. Fisch
Jill Fisch
No abstract provided.
Measurement Of The Ocean Economy From National Income Accounts To The Sustainable Blue Economy,
2016
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Measurement Of The Ocean Economy From National Income Accounts To The Sustainable Blue Economy, Charles S. Colgan
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
The widespread efforts to incorporate the economic values of oceans into national income accounts have reached a stage where coordination of national efforts is desirable. A symposium held in 2015 began this process by bringing together representatives from ten countries. The symposium concluded that a definition of core ocean industries was possible but beyond that core the definition of ocean industries is in flux. Better coordination of ocean income accounts will require addressing issues of aggregation, geography, partial ocean industries, confidential, and imputation is also needed. Beyond the standard national income accounts, a need to incorporate environmental resource and ecosystem ...
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration,
2016
University of Southern Mississippi
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration, Madeline Alice Messick
Dissertations
This research provides insight into the impact of natural disasters as drivers of rural to urban migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Disasters of varying types are predicted to have differing impacts on the productive sectors of agriculture, industry, and services; which due to the concentration of the various productive sectors in either urban or rural areas, subsequently changes the urban-rural wage differential. Changes to the wage differential (as measured by the urban-rural income gap) are predicted to lead to movement between urban and rural areas until a new equilibrium wage is reached.
This dissertation first identifies a ...
Essays On Environmental Policy Instruments, Emissions Leakage And Public Policy,
2016
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Essays On Environmental Policy Instruments, Emissions Leakage And Public Policy, Shreekar Pradhan
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation consists of three essays related to my research on environmental policy, emissions leakage, and public policy. In the first essay, I address how open economies respond to environmental policy instruments under uncertainty. I develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for a small open economy (SOE) and evaluate the macroeconomic fluctuations in response to cap-and-trade, pollution tax, and emissions intensity standard under two shocks: productivity and terms of trade. My findings suggest that cap-and-trade policies are most effective in dampening the macroeconomic volatility from productivity shock. However, under the terms-of-trade shock, pollution tax, and intensity target policies are ...
