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The Educated Retail Investor: A Response To "Regulating Democratized Investing", Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci Jan 2023

The Educated Retail Investor: A Response To "Regulating Democratized Investing", Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci

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The diffusion of mobile-first investing apps, like Robinhood, has increased retail investor participation in financial markets, particularly from the Millennial and GenZ generations, and has increased the diversity of retail investors. However, mobile-first investing apps are not free from controversy. In Regulating Democratized Investing, Abraham Cable tackles the debate on regulating mobile-first investing apps and largely opposes paternalistic regulation, which would raise unsurmountable barriers at the entrance of the stock market for retail investors. But it concedes to a form of regulation that in Cable’s own words “serves ultra-retail investors a modest portion of what they really want.” We strongly …


The Corporate Forum, Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci Jan 2022

The Corporate Forum, Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci

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In this response to Professor Jill Fisch’s article "GameStop and the Reemergence of the Retail Investor," we focus on one of the risks associated with the growth of retail investing that Fisch surveys, uncontrolled information sourcing. Drawing on our work on retail investors, we revisit an instrument dear to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, whose potential has not been unleashed so far, the corporate forum. Our response succinctly discusses the main mechanics of the corporate forum, the benefits the corporate forum could provide, and the feasibility hurdles that might undermine the success of corporate forums.


Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power Of Retail Investors, Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci Oct 2021

Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power Of Retail Investors, Christina M. Sautter, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci

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The GameStop saga and meme stock frenzy have shown the pathway to the most disruptive revolution in corporate governance of the millennium. New generations of retail investors use technologies, online forums, and gaming dynamics to coordinate their actions and obtain unprecedented results. Signals indicate that these investors, whom we can dub wireless investors, are currently expanding their actions to corporate governance. Wireless investors' generational characteristics suggest that they will use corporate governance to pursue social and environmental causes. In fact, wireless investors can set in motion asocial movement able to bring business corporations to serve their original partly-private-partly-public purpose. This …


Green Business: Should We Revoke Corporate Charters For Environmental Violations?, Mitchell F. Crusto Feb 2003

Green Business: Should We Revoke Corporate Charters For Environmental Violations?, Mitchell F. Crusto

Louisiana Law Review

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The Person In Imagination Or Persona Ficta Of The Corporation, Maximilian Koessler May 1949

The Person In Imagination Or Persona Ficta Of The Corporation, Maximilian Koessler

Louisiana Law Review

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