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  • November 20, 2008 /  financial crisis, imf, publications, regulation

    Walter Mattli and I offer our vision for the future of global financial regulation on Martin Wolf’s Financial Times blog The Economists’ Forum today.

    In it, we argue that nothing less than a new global architecture for the regulation of banking and finance is required. Such architecture comprises three elements: broad representation in the rule-making process, proper monitoring, and systematic enforcement.

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  • November 19, 2008 /  regulation

    GEG and the Duke University Center for International Studies have published the results of the first major business survey about corporate financial reporting and the financial reporting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

    Assessing the IASB by Tim Büthe (Duke) and Walter Mattli (Oxford) reports key findings from the survey, conducted among financial executives—mostly CFOs and chief accounting officers—of companies listed on the major stock exchanges of the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. 749 of these corporate finance experts, representing firms from all industries, participated in the business survey, which is part of a larger study, the International Standards Project, jointly directed by Büthe and Mattli at Duke and Oxford Universities.

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