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Friday, November 20, 2009
 
 
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Regulation
 

AEI's Center for Regulatory and Market Studies produces analyses of federal regulations and rulemaking proposals, proposals for improving regulatory policy through the use of cost-benefit analysis, private-market alternatives to government command and control, and studies of regulatory programs and their economic consequences. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on regulation.

 
Feature: Sarbanes-Oxley and the Financial Crisis

The Sarbanes-Oxley Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 was triggered by several high-profile incidents of corporate malfeasance. The legislation introduced major changes to corporate governance, financial practices in the public sector, and the relationship between companies and their accountants. Supporters of Sarbanes-Oxley claim it has done what it was meant to do, but critics claim that it has created major costs for public companies, turned accountants from advisers into adversaries, and encouraged both American and foreign companies to leave U.S. capital markets. On September 8, the AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies hosted an event to consider the role Sarbanes-Oxley played in our more recent financial crisis.

 

Scholars on Regulation


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Sarbanes-Oxley in the Light of the Financial Crisis
 
All Sarbanes-Oxley's efforts to control risk did not avoid the tremendous financial bubble and bust of the last several years.
 
No Regulation without Risk
 
After having observed financial regulation fail time after time, its adherents still believe that it will work next time if we just make it more pervasive and more intrusive.
 
The Meaning of the Lehman Bankruptcy
 
The administration's rationale for setting up a government-run resolution authority--to the extent that it is based on the idea that the interconnectedness of Lehman caused the financial crisis--is not well founded.
 
Deregulation Done Right
 
Electrical Restructuring: The Texas Story explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States.
 
 
Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story (forthcoming)
 
This volume explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States.  
 
Biotechnology and the Patent System Balancing Innovation and Property Rights
 
This book offers a timely discussion of biotechnology patent reform.  
 
China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads
 
This book offers perspectives from leading academics on China's difficult transition to financial-market liberalization.  
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
At this AEI event, experts will discuss the future of the CFPA bill in the House and Senate and whether it has the potential to effectively reform the financial system.
 
 
Please note this event will take place at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20062
 
 
Will more regulations and a more centralized food safety bureaucracy make us safer? What kind of regulations and implementation mechanisms would best serve the public's desire for ensuring food safety?