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01 May 2019

Enforcing European Competition Law in a Global Digital Economy

Ariel Ezrachi, Pembroke College | Agustin Reyna

The digital economy forms a central driver to future prosperity—delivering waves of innovation, efficiencies and consumer welfare. It has stimulated a shift in market dynamics, paving the way for the...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
04 Apr 2019

Video Interview: Ensuring Competition and Innovation in 3D Printing

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Take a look at our full video interview with Professor Michal Gal about her research on 3D printing. Professor Gal focusses on the disruption 3D printing may cause to supply chains and market...

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  • Commercial Law
30 Jan 2019

Soft Law as Governing Law

Steven L. Schwarcz

International commercial, financial, and other business transactions increasingly are conducted under ‘soft law’ rules—effectively, non-state rules that may be aspirational or reflect best practices...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
24 Jan 2019

Auditing Reform: Myth and Reality

John Coffee

2018 witnessed an eruption of auditing scandals around the globe, but the political reaction has been uniquely intense in the U.K. The Labour Party has promised to ‘break up’ the Big Four, and the...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
10 Dec 2018

Diesel motors and their regulation: lessons to be learned

Roland Koch

Since 2015, a storm has raged in Germany in the worlds of cars and politics. The regulation of exhaust emission cleaning systems for diesel motors has not led to the attainment of targets for reduced...

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  • Financial Regulation
07 Dec 2018

US Law: Crypto is Money, Property, a Commodity, and a Security, all at the Same Time

Carol Goforth

Although various authorities in the US have repeatedly claimed that they do not wish to over-regulate cryptoassets or to stifle innovation in the space, overlapping regulations produced by a...

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  • Commercial Law
04 Dec 2018

How Technology Disrupts Private Law: An Exploratory Study of California and Switzerland as Innovative Jurisdictions

Catalina Goanta

2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily life. The first wave of the Internet saw a...

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  • Financial Regulation
02 Nov 2018

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’ – Time to take law seriously

Gerhard Schnyder | Mathias Siems | Ruth Aguilera

Twenty years ago, the first of a series of tremendously influential papers on 'Law and Finance' was published by Rafael La Porta and his colleagues. By putting legal institutions at the centre of...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
10 Sep 2018

ICYMI―Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership?

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The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) featured a Focus Panel on ‘Common Ownership: Antitrust Meets Corporate Governance’ at their Annual Members’ Meeting in Berlin, in May 2018. The...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
09 Apr 2018

Towards Effectiveness of the Rules on Corporate Governance for EU Insurance Firms

Michele Siri

Good governance is essential to the long-term sustainability of any company. EU banking and insurance prudential standards require regulated institutions to have a rigorous governance framework,...

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  • Financial Regulation
21 Feb 2018

Lessons from More than a Decade-Long History of Sanction in France

Laure de Batz

Since its creation in 2003, the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) has sanctioned market players which violate the set of rules to which they are subject. Four main...
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  • Corporate Tax
  • Financial Regulation
31 Aug 2017

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

E Joan | Peter Crane

On 25 July 2017 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (‘US SEC’) issued a report of investigation in which it classified The Decentralized Autonomous Organization’s (‘The DAO’s’)...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Financial Regulation
16 Aug 2017

Making Finance More Competitive

Rory Van Loo

Many scholars have called for legal reform to end taxpayer-funded bailouts and crack down on anticompetitive practices by financial institutions. Failure to do so, in an era of fintech innovation,...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
28 Jul 2017

The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups

Elizabeth Pollman

What explains the growing number of collisions and collaborations between law and entrepreneurs? How are startups responding? What are some of the implications of these developments? I explore these...

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  • Commercial Law
21 Apr 2017

Adjudicating by Algorithm, Regulating by Robot

Cary Coglianese | David Lehr

Sophisticated computational techniques, known as machine-learning algorithms, increasingly underpin advances in business practices, from investment banking to product marketing and self-driving cars...

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  • Financial Regulation
21 Feb 2017

Managing the Risks of Equity Crowdfunding: Lessons from China

Lin Lin

China is currently the world’s largest ECF market - market volume reached USD 948.26 million in 2015, exceeding that of both the US (USD 598.05 million) and the UK (USD 405.45 million). China also...
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  • Financial Regulation
10 Feb 2017

Law and Macroeconomics

Yair Listokin

Law and economics should be called law and microeconomics. The assumptions of law and economics are the same as those of microeconomics and classical macroeconomics. Prices adjust freely, and there...

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  • Financial Regulation
25 Aug 2016

Regulators as Validators

Roy Shapira

This post was originally published on promarket.org – the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. What deters corporate misbehavior? Two of the most frequent...

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