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Capture at the SEC? Let’s Pause for a Sec

by Laurence Tai

The financial crisis of 2008 was perceived as a failure not only of financial institutions, but also of their regulators. A popular narrative is that the industry has “captured” agencies so that bureaucrats serve its interests instead of the public interest. ^{... Read more about Capture at the SEC? Let’s Pause for a Sec}

2014 May 23
Institutional Corruption and the Capital Markets: Financial Benchmark and Currency Manipulation, Enforcement Strategies, and Regulatory Redesign
8:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Milstein West, Harvard Law School
In the second of an international series of four major workshops, scholars, practitioners, and regulators explore the divergent enforcement agendas followed in the aftermath of the financial benchmark and broader currency manipulation scandals. The workshop builds on the pioneering work of lab on institutional corruption and the Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation at UNSW on the dynamics of regulatory policy. It assesses the trajectories of the investigative and enforcement process across multiple markets and fuses detailed empirical analysis with recommendations for policy reform...
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WP 66. June 11, 2015

Laurence Tai, Regulatory Capture and Quality

Laurence Tai — Information and Regulatory Capture

The February 26, 2014, Lab seminar, "Information and Regulatory Capture," was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Laurence Tai. Having recently earned his JD and PhD in Public Policy at Harvard in May 2013, Tai's research is primarily concerned with agencies and their information. His dissertation research focused on the costs and benefits of information transparency in administrative rulemaking, with regulatory capture as a significant theme. During his Lab fellowship...

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Lightning Rounds I - Ending Institutional Corruption

"Implementation of Blinded Expert Review in Radiology Malpractice Litigation"
Jeffrey Robinson, Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Washington; President, Cleareview

"Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform"
Robert Whitaker, freelance journalist
Lisa Cosgrove, Clinical Psychologist and Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

"Rootstriking Pharmaceutical Corruption of Research, Medical Knowledge, and Practice"
Donald Light...

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