Quantcast
Channel: The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Browsing all 125 articles
Browse latest View live

Credit Risk Transfer Governance

Editor’s Note: The following comes to us from Houman Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an associate director of its Center on Financial Services Law. In the paper, Credit...

View Article



Proposed Federal Rules Regarding Alternatives to Credit Ratings

Editor’s Note: H. Rodgin Cohen is a partner and senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP focusing on acquisition, corporate governance, regulatory and securities law matters. This post is based...

View Article

The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis

Editor’s Note: Raghuram Rajan is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. How important is the role of credit availability in inflating asset prices? And what are the consequences of past...

View Article

Fair Value Accounting for Financial Instruments

Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Elizabeth Blankespoor of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Thomas Linsmeier of the Financial Accounting Standards Board; Kathy...

View Article

Statement Regarding Joint Rule Reproposal Concerning Credit Risk Retention

Editor's Note: Michael S. Piwowar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on Commissioner Piwowar’s statement regarding the SEC’s joint rule reproposal...

View Article


Rollover Risk: Ideating a U.S. Debt Default

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business at Duke University School of Law. In Rollover Risk: Ideating a U.S. Debt Default,...

View Article

The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Paolo Fulghieri, Professor of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Günter Strobl, Professor of Finance at the Frankfurt School...

View Article

Understanding the Failures of Market Discipline

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from David Min of University of California, Irvine School of Law. Last week, James Kwak (UConn law professor, co-author of 13 Bankers and White House...

View Article


Banks, Government Bonds, and Default

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Nicola Gennaioli, Professor of Finance at Bocconi University; Alberto Martin, Research Fellow at the International Monetary Fund; and Stefano Rossi of...

View Article


A Strict Liability Regime for Rating Agencies

Editor's Note: The following paper comes to us from Alessio Pacces and Alessandro Romano, both of the Erasmus School of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In our recent ECGI working paper, A Strict...

View Article

Statement on Credit Risk Retention

Editor's Note: Mary Jo White is Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The following post is based on Chair White’s remarks at a recent open meeting of the SEC, available here. The views...

View Article

Ten Key Points from the Final Risk Retention Rule

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and is based on a PwC publication by Christopher Merchant, Frank Serravalli, and Daniel Sullivan. This week six federal...

View Article

A Closer Look at US Credit Risk Retention Rules

Editor's Note: David M. Lynn is a partner and co-chair of the Corporate Finance practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP. The following post is based on a Morrison & Foerster publication by Jerry...

View Article


A Crisis of Banks as Liquidity Providers

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Nada Mora, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance at NYU. In our paper, A Crisis of...

View Article

Credit Risk Transfer Governance

Editor's Note: The following comes to us from Houman Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and an associate director of its Center on Financial Services Law. In the paper, Credit...

View Article


Proposed Federal Rules Regarding Alternatives to Credit Ratings

Editor's Note: H. Rodgin Cohen is a partner and senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP focusing on acquisition, corporate governance, regulatory and securities law matters. This post is based...

View Article

The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis

Editor's Note: Raghuram Rajan is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. How important is the role of credit availability in inflating asset prices? And what are the consequences of past...

View Article


Fair Value Accounting for Financial Instruments

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Elizabeth Blankespoor of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Thomas Linsmeier of the Financial Accounting Standards Board; Kathy...

View Article

Remarks at ABS Vegas 2016

Posted by Michael S. Piwowar, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, on Saturday, March 5, 2016 Editor's Note: Michael S. Piwowar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....

View Article

Single-Counterparty Credit Limits Rule

Posted by Dan Ryan, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Monday, March 21, 2016 Editor's Note: Dan Ryan is Leader of the Financial Services Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based...

View Article
Browsing all 125 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images