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Basel's Gone Cold On Cocos, But Is This A Blessing In Disguise For Banks?, Hilary Allen
Basel's Gone Cold On Cocos, But Is This A Blessing In Disguise For Banks?, Hilary Allen
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The last few months have seen a dramatic fall in the value of bank stocks both in Europe and the U.S., bringingback unpleasant memories of the depths of the financial crisis in 2008. Concerns about the sovereign debt crisisin Europe, continuing litigation relating to the American subprime mortgage crisis, and the generally poor stateof the world economy have increasingly put banks under pressure. However, some commentators have pointedout the “silver lining” in all of this: the big American and European banks are better capitalized than they wereduring the financial crisis, and therefore are better able to absorb these shocks and …
Consumer Financial Protection: It's A Smaller World After All.Pdf, Hilary Allen
Consumer Financial Protection: It's A Smaller World After All.Pdf, Hilary Allen
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Few of the reforms of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) havebeen as controversial as the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On the one hand,proponents envisioned the Bureau as “a single, highly motivated federal regulator, [that would apply] the sameregulation … to all similar products, regardless of the identity of the lender.” On the other hand, critics havecalled the Bureau “fatally flawed” and suggested that it has the potential to “stifle innovation and leave somemarket participants worse off.”
Public Participation And The Private Sector: The Role Of Multilateral Development Banks In The Evolution Of International Legal Standards, Daniel D. Bradlow, Megan S. Chapman
Public Participation And The Private Sector: The Role Of Multilateral Development Banks In The Evolution Of International Legal Standards, Daniel D. Bradlow, Megan S. Chapman
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This paper systematically describes the public participation standards currently applied by multilateral development banks (MDBs) to the private sector and seeks to identify emerging trends and areas for further development or improvement. It begins by outlining the developing body of international law on public participation and its relationship to good development practice. Thereafter, the paper describes the two principle models for standards attached to MDB funding and assistance to the private sector: (1) the World Bank policies applicable to the public sector; and (2) the International Finance Corporation (IFC) standards that are applicable to the private sector and how these …
Securitization And Suburbia, Heather Hughes
Securitization And Suburbia, Heather Hughes
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This Article explores the relationship between one typical form of real estate development finance-the securitized mezzanine loanand one controversial phenomenon-suburban sprawl. It asks foundational questions about the connection between financial transactions and real-world applications of the capital they raise. In this work, sprawl serves as an example of an environmental consequence of applications of capital raised with a common form of transaction. This Article considers the extent to which commercial finance laws release forceful incentives driven by capital markets upon land use decisions, potentially undermining the collective, morally informed determination such decisions require. It rejects the aesthetic aversion to looking …
Sovereignty, Accountability, And The Wealth Fund Governance Conundrum, Anna Gelpern
Sovereignty, Accountability, And The Wealth Fund Governance Conundrum, Anna Gelpern
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Sovereign wealth funds – state-controlled transnational portfolio investment vehicles – began as an externally imposed category in search of a definition. SWFs from different countries had little in common and no particular desire to collaborate. But SWFs as a group implicated the triple challenge of securing cooperation between deficit and surplus states, designing a legal framework for global capital flows, and integrating state actors in the transnational marketplace. This Article describes how an apparently artificial grouping of investors, made salient by the historical and political circumstances of their host states in the mid-2000s, became a vehicle for addressing some of …