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Financial Regulation for a Better Society

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  • Sunder Shyam

    (Yale University, New Haven, CT06520, USA)

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The benefits of top down financial reporting regulation over the past eight decades are less obvious than its failures to achieve the purported goals. Perhaps it is time to give a chance to an alternative approach of regulatory competition.

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  • Sunder Shyam, 2017. "Financial Regulation for a Better Society," Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, De Gruyter, vol. 7(2), pages 51-58, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:aelcon:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:51-58:n:9
    DOI: 10.1515/ael-2017-0013
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    1. Karim Jamal & Shyam Sunder, 2014. "Monopoly versus Competition in Setting Accounting Standards," Abacus, Accounting Foundation, University of Sydney, vol. 50(4), pages 369-385, December.
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    Keywords

    accounting; financial regulations; European economy; society;
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    JEL classification:

    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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