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Eu Law In Populist Times: Crises And Prospects, Francesca Bignami
Eu Law In Populist Times: Crises And Prospects, Francesca Bignami
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EU Law in Populist Times: Crises and Prospects analyzes the sovereignty-sensitive EU law that has emerged over the past decade—in economic policy, human migration, internal security, and constitutional fundamentals (rule-of-law policies to combat democratic backsliding). These are legal areas at the heart of state sovereignty, over which the EU’s prerogatives accelerated following the multiple crises that hit beginning in 2009. They are also EU policies that occupy center stage in the acrimonious debates that have emerged between European establishment parties and populist political forces, precisely because of the huge economic, social, and constitutional stakes involved in reaching into core state …
The Aig Story (Chapter 18, Nationalization), Lawrence A. Cunningham, Maurice R. Greenberg
The Aig Story (Chapter 18, Nationalization), Lawrence A. Cunningham, Maurice R. Greenberg
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This is the final chapter of The AIG Story, a book about the growth of a large international insurance company that pioneered the opening of new markets and helped forge milestone international trade agreements, followed by an account of its near-destruction, first at the hands of an overzealous state attorney general and underwhelming board of directors, and then, as detailed in this chapter, at the hands of federal government officials overwhelmed by a financial crisis they could not understand. This chapter begins in mid-2008, when AIG’s losing financial products bets presented the company with a huge liquidity problem, though it …
The Three Or Four Approaches To Financial Regulation: A Cautionary Analysis Against Exuberance In Crisis Response, Lawrence A. Cunningham, David T. Zaring
The Three Or Four Approaches To Financial Regulation: A Cautionary Analysis Against Exuberance In Crisis Response, Lawrence A. Cunningham, David T. Zaring
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Unprecedented interest in financial regulation reform accompanies the nearly-unprecedented scale of financial calamity facing the world. Dozens of elaborate reform proposals are in circulation, most determined to revolutionize financial regulation. No doubt, the crisis makes reevaluation essential, but we contribute a cautionary analysis amid the exuberant atmosphere. Reforms should not discount the value of traditional financial regulation, overlook the functional regulatory reform that has already occurred, or overstate ultimate differences between contending reform proposals. Despite proliferation of dozens of reform proposals, our analysis leads us to conclude that there are ultimately only three or four principal alternatives: (1) the traditional …