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Fintech And The Innovation Trilemma, Yesha Yadav, Chris Brummer
Fintech And The Innovation Trilemma, Yesha Yadav, Chris Brummer
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Whether in response to roboadvising, artificial intelligence, or crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, regulators around the world have made it a top policy priority to supervise the exponential growth of financial technology (or "fintech") in the post-Crisis era. However, applying traditional regulatory strategies to new technological ecosystems has proven conceptually difficult. Part of the challenge lies in the tradeoffs involved in regulating innovations that could conceivably both help and hurt consumers and market participants alike. Problems also arise from the common assumption that today's fintech is a mere continuation of the story of innovation that has shaped finance for centuries.
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Engaging Policy In Science Writing: Patterns And Strategies, J. B. Ruhl, Stephen M. Posner, Taylor H. Ricketts
Engaging Policy In Science Writing: Patterns And Strategies, J. B. Ruhl, Stephen M. Posner, Taylor H. Ricketts
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding of the institutional complexities of legal and policy processes and actors. To examine how researchers have undertaken that challenge, we developed a set of metrics and applied them to articles published in one of the principal academic publication venues for science and policy—Science magazine’s Policy Forum. We reviewed each Policy Forum article published over a five-year period (2011–15), 220 in all. For each article, we assessed the level of policy content based on presence of a stated …