Entries tagged "WorldCom"

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Deal sense: Operation timed out

Remember when Microsoft was a thing? No one else does either. Continue reading

Posted on February 25, 2013 1:05 PM

Most cited: Shareholder governance as accepted wisdom

We look back at a much-cited law review paper from 2000 declaring victory in the battle over governance models. Is the normative ideal eternal? Continue reading

Posted on June 8, 2012 11:15 AM

John Coffee and his theory and practice of financial reform

A recent paper, John Coffee is taking a mighty cut that aims not only at the dynamics of financial reform in a democracy like ours, but, inevitably, at the root causes of the financial crisis. I'm not sure he has succeeded. Continue reading

Posted on March 13, 2012 12:52 PM

Stephen Bainbridge's 'Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis'

In his new book, UCLA law professor and popular blogger Stephen Bainbridge provides a longer historical perspective on one aspect of the choking proliferation of rulemaking. Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 1:24 PM

Stephen Bainbridge's 'Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis'

In his new book, UCLA law professor and popular blogger Stephen Bainbridge provides a longer historical perspective on one aspect of the choking proliferation of rulemaking. Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 1:13 PM

Credit raters and the conventional wisdom

There remain the expectations that credit raters should be able to see the future by analyzing the present. Continue reading

Posted on December 8, 2011 12:57 PM

TDE2012: Public vs. private

The Deal's editor in chief was on hand for the The Deal Economy 2012's panel, 'Upstairs, Downstairs: Private vs. Public Markets' Continue reading

Posted on December 1, 2011 4:33 PM

The paradoxes of rules-based regulation

Psychologically, the expansion of criminality represents a kind of race to the bottom, in which rules beget rules, and more rules, particularly those with criminal penalties attached, only seem to create more violations. Continue reading

Posted on September 28, 2011 12:17 PM

Deals that defined an era

It begins with AOL-Time Warner and ends with the demise of Bear Stearns. Continue reading

Posted on March 20, 2009 2:00 PM

Full disclosure

A prescription for reforming the U.S.'s accounting mess. Continue reading

Posted on February 20, 2009 3:06 PM

Loophole here, loophole there

For the little accounting firm that supposedly audited Bernard Madoff's securities outfit, it was easy to escape regulatory scrutiny. Continue reading

Posted on February 6, 2009 1:27 PM

Board to distraction

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has made an unintended contribution to the current economic crisis. Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2009 12:51 PM

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