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- the condition in which nothing is hidden. This is an essential condition for a free market in securities. Prices, the volume of trading, and factual information must be available to...
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- Pelosi Letter to Boehner on Earmark Reform
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Brendan Daly or Nadeam Elshami, both of the Office of the Speaker of the House, +1-202-226-7616 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the Office of the Speaker of the House: Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to House...
- Research articles 2008-02-06
- Defining the financial safety net: two dozen experts weigh in
- The 2007-08 subprime crisis has heightened the policy worlds interest in the makeup of financial markets. Financial institutions have set up off-balance-sheet vehicles as a means of disbursing and concealing risk, but to what extent do these off-balance-sheet vehicles during times of crisis fall under the central bank safety net?...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Earmark requests revealed
- By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A dozen residents of Iola, including one who had never been on an airplane, met in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda to discuss federal funding for three community projects. "We're not talking about well-heeled lobbyists," said Iola...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- Tax controversy in the post-shelter era
- I would like to share with you six observations about what our tax controversy dealings with the Internal Revenue Service in the post-shelter era may be like, and seek your reactions about what you believe we should expect from the IRS and how taxpayers and their representatives should respond. ...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- XBRL changes financial reporting
- Anyone who has been following developments at the Securities and Exchange Commission since the appointment of Christopher Cox as chairman knows that he is a champion of investor education. He has promoted the use of plain English to remove legalese from SEC documents. He has made the SEC's company filings...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- The people's agent: executive branch secrecy and accountability in an age of terrorism.
- INTRODUCTION The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend predates it, the movement toward government secrecy has accelerated dramatically since the 2000 presidential election. The Bush Administration has initiated significant legislative and administrative changes that have...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.(Book review)
- Now in his twelfth year as a Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer has written an important book, Active Liberty, (1) which crystallizes a fundamental set of beliefs about the American Constitution and his role as a Justice. Taking Active Liberty as the entry point, this piece ...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Good governance at the supranational scale: globalizing administrative law.
- This Article examines the tension between the demonstrable need for structured international cooperation in a world of interdependence and the political strain that arises whenever policymaking authority is lodged in global institutions. It argues that the tools of administrative law, which have been used to legitimate regulatory decisionmaking in the...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Word of Mouth
- When some 450 attendees gathered at the Word of Mouth Marketing Association's conference in Orlando recently, they had many reasons to celebrate and a few to be fearful. Word-of-mouth marketing--by which companies encourage consumers to recommend products to one another--is currently among the brightest stars in the advertising firmament. But...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Using Ex Post Evaluations to Improve the Performance of Competition Policy Authorities
- I. INTRODUCTIONCompetition policy is a work in progress. Since the late 19th century, the history of competition law has featured a continuing search for optimal statutory commands, institutional designs, and operational techniques.1 Recent decades have witnessed extraordinary change as existing competition systems seek better practices for defining substantive commands, setting...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- NAB self-portrait less than flattering.
- Byline: Leon Gettler Dec 14, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- National Australia Bank NAB has released a new report on its corporate social responsibility practices. The report ...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
- ONE-ON-ONE: JORGE VASCONCELOS, PORTUGAL'S ENERGY REGULATOR.
- What will you remember about the last five years? Jorge Vasconcelos: We started with nothing ten years ago and now we have gained credibility: in 2000, when we started, there were only about 10 regulators in the CEER. Today there are 27 - the 25...
- Research articles 2005-12-09
- Guarding the guardians: Sarbanes-Oxley brought about the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. But can this new regulator help restore investor confidence?
- Now that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board PCAOB has completed its first year of full-scale inspections of audit firms, it seems doubtful it can fulfill its Congressionally mandated mission within the prescribed period of time. Three years after the PCAOB was formed, this new regulatory body appears to...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Quitting the guidance game: why are more CEOs keeping silent on earnings?
- Damned if we do, and damned if we don't" fairly sums up the way CEOs and their financial deputies feel these days when it comes to giving future earnings guidance. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the one hand, investors and analysts pressure executives for a specific, regular profit estimate, and...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- GOLDFISH BOWL SCOTLAND Abroad, Scots forge ahead. At home, we are
- Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small? Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliche corner To a fool who cries 'Nothing but heather!'. . . WHAT would Hugh MacDiarmid make of Villagate? Would he, as was his wont, throw up his hands...
- Research articles 2005-01-16
- Three generations of participation rights before the European Commission.
- I INTRODUCTION Representation, delegation, and specialization pose enduring problems for democratic theory because they fly in the face of the simple and central ideal of self-government: the citizen who at one and the same time governs and is governed....
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- Transcript of testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee, Friday, May 7, 2004. SEN. WARNER: The Committee of the Armed Services meets today in the first of a series of hearings to receive testimony regarding the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by some--I repeat--some elements...
- Research articles 2004-05-07
- Combinatorial auction design.
- 1. Introduction Auctions have recently come into the spotlight because of their use in deregulation and their explosive propagation on the Internet. Sales of the rights to the use of radio spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC and daily electricity supply auctions are examples of recent...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Transparency is essential.
- Sep 23, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Taxation Office's ATO attempts to stop the release of a report damning its debt collection record are lamentable. "The Australian" newspaper tried to get hold of the Ledlin Partners report through Freedom of...
- Research articles 2003-09-23
- XBRL: EDGAR Analyst changes everything
- FROM THE BIRTH OF FINANCIAL MARKETS TO today, there has always been a need for high-quality, transparent financial reporting. Transparency facilitates the fair flow of information to investors who, in turn, assess the potential risks and rewards associated with a particular investment. In today's environment, corporate accounting scandals such as...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
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