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CommentaryVol. 88 · Iss. 3
How the U.S. Government’s Market Activities Can Bolster Mobile Banking Abroad
To combat corruption and increase the effectiveness of foreign aid, the United States should require that all of its foreign aid distributions, reconstruction projects,…
Colin C. Richard -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 1
Measuring the True Cost of Government Bailout
Government intervention to assist individual businesses and industries during the 2008–2009 economic crisis was extraordinary in variety and scope. Despite official protestations of no…
Cheryl D. Block -
NoteVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Closing the Financial Privacy Loophole: Defining “Access” in the Right to Financial Privacy Act
There is a hole in Fourth Amendment protection that is teetering on the verge of rapid expansion. The omnipresence of technology in the 21st…
W. Faith McElroy -
NoteVol. 95 · Iss. 4
Decentralized Public Ledger Systems and Securities Law: New Applications of Blockchain Technology and the Revitalization of Sections 11 And 12(A)(2) of the Securities Act Of 1933
When Bitcoin launched in 2009, it was the first virtual cryptocurrency to gain popularity and attain widespread use. Much attention has been paid to…
Kelsey Bolin -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 5
Uncertain Futures in Evolving Financial Markets
Today’s publicly offered investment funds, including mutual funds, have ever more diverse investment strategies, as they increasingly invest in financial instruments that, in earlier…
Anita K. Krug -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 4
Consumer Protection in the Age of Big Data
The Big Data revolution is upon us. Technological advances in the degree to which third parties can record information about individuals, along with increases…
Max N. Helveston -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Event Studies in Securities Litigation: Low Power, Confounding Effects, and Bias
An event study is a statistical method for determining whether some event—such as the announcement of earnings or the announcement of a proposed merger—is…
Alon Brav & J. B. Heaton -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Price Impact, Materiality, and Halliburton II
The Supreme Court decision in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2398 (2014), reaffirmed the availability of the fraud-on-the-market…
Allen Ferrell & Andrew Roper -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Market Intermediation, Publicness, and Securities Class Actions
Securities class actions play a crucial, if contested, role in the policing of securities fraud and the protection of securities markets. The theoretical understanding…
Hillary A. Sale & Robert B. Thompson -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Distortion Other Than Price Distortion
The fraud-on-the-market doctrine adopted in Basic Inc. v. Levinson (“Basic”) allows the plaintiff suing under Rule 10b-5 to satisfy the reliance requirement by showing…
Urska Velikonja -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 2
Mandatory Disclosure and Individual Investors: Evidence From the Jobs Act
One prominent justification for the mandatory disclosure rules that define modern securities law is that these rules encourage individual investors to participate in stock…
Yu-Ting Forester Wong, Colleen Honigsberg & Robert J. Jackson Jr. -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 1
Public Actors in Private Markets: Toward a Developmental Finance State
The recent financial crisis brought into sharp relief fundamental questions about the social function and purpose of the financial system, including its relation to…
Robert C. Hockett & Saule T. Omarova