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  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
02 Jul 2021
12 min to read

Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: Beyond Greenwashing

John Armour, Faculty of Law | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

A small number of firms have an outsize impact on climate change. The majority of global carbon emissions since human-induced climate change was officially recognised can be traced to a relatively...
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  • Financial Regulation
08 Jun 2020
4 min to read

Foundations of System-Wide Financial Stress Testing with Heterogeneous Institutions

Doyne Farmer | Alissa Kleinnijenhuis | Paul Nahai-Williamson | Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

In a highly connected financial system, seemingly localised shocks can be amplified and propagated to take on systemic importance. During the financial crisis from 2007-2009, problems that started in...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
03 Jun 2019
4 min to read

Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Alessandro Romano | Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

Shocks that hit part of the financial system, such as the subprime mortgage market in 2007, can propagate and amplify through the complex network of interconnections among financial and non-financial...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
12 Feb 2019

In Two Minds: The Governance of Ring-Fenced Banks

Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

A keynote policy of UK financial regulation since the financial crisis has been the ‘ring-fencing’ of retail banks into separate and independently operated entities, so-called ‘ring-fenced bodies’ (...

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  • Financial Regulation
15 Nov 2018

Ten years After the Financial Crisis: 'We Are Safer, But Not As Safe As We Should and Could Be'

Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law | Jure Jeric | Alexandra Zeitz

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, now ten years ago, was neither the start nor the peak of the financial crisis. Yet, the demise of the iconic investment bank, the fourth-largest in the United...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
01 Jun 2017

Akzo Nobel: Activist Shareholders Hit Wall of Dutch Stakeholder Model

Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law | Tom Vos

An attempt at courtship has ended up in court. Over the past months, US paints and coatings giant PPG Industries (‘PPG’) has tried to woe the management and shareholders of Dutch rival Akzo Nobel (‘...

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  • Financial Regulation
23 Feb 2017

Conference Report: ‘The Future Framework for European Capital Markets – Law and Finance’

Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

When European banks were hit by financial calamity, a lack of alternative funding arrangements deepened the crisis. Stronger European capital markets would have changed that picture, because savers...

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  • Financial Regulation
31 Mar 2016

MetLife Defeats FSOC's “SIFI” Designation

Katrien Morbee, Balliol College | Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer has struck down the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) designation of the insurer MetLife Inc. as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI...

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