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What Can Be Done About Stock Market Volatility, Tamar Frankel
What Can Be Done About Stock Market Volatility, Tamar Frankel
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Volatility is as old as the financial markets. The bull market of 1986 and the crash that followed in 1987 were but the latest of periodic market gyrations that started with the South Sea Bubble and the Lombard Street run on commercial paper and have continued ever since.' Volatility in the financial markets would not be very important if market activity simply mirrored economic activity. Volatility would be much less important if the markets moved independently of the economy. But if we believe, as I do, that the markets and the economy are interdependent, and that their volatility is generally …
National Law And Commercial Justice: Safeguarding Procedural Integrity In International Arbitration, William W. Park
National Law And Commercial Justice: Safeguarding Procedural Integrity In International Arbitration, William W. Park
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The law chosen to govern the merits of an international contract dispute does not always lead to results hat satisfy an arbitrator's personal sense of what is right. The arbitrator therefore may be tempted to resolve the dispute according to his own notion of justice. Seduced away from the rules of the otherwise applicable law, the arbitrator may take on unauthorized powers of amiable composition. While most international arbitrators are conscientious in respecting the bounds of their mission, some have been known to boast of their skill in finding ways to bypass the established rules of the party-chosen law. …
Legal Policy Conflicts In International Banking, William W. Park
Legal Policy Conflicts In International Banking, William W. Park
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The world debt crisis might never have occupied the front pages of our newspapers during much of the past decade if more attention had been paid to the advice old Polonius gave to young Laertes. More than one Secretary of the Treasury has tried to control a multibillion dollar problem of money addiction, whose resolution sometimes seems to lie in the realm of financial eschatology.