America’s Natural Gas: From Shale Gas to LNG Exports
Susan Sakmar: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2012, U.S. natural gas production is expected to increase almost twenty-nine percent…
Volume 3
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SPACs and the JOBS Act
Usha Rodrigues:
The JOBS Act’s IPO on-ramp was intended to ease regular companies’ path to going public; instead, it has inadvertently made it easier for the average investor to get a taste of private equity…
International Business Law, Volume 3
The Lessons from Libor for Detection and Deterrence of Cartel Wrongdoing
Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz & D. Daniel Sokol:
In late June 2012, Barclays entered a $453 million settlement with U.K. and U.S. regulators due to its manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).
Complexity of Regulation
Chester S. Spatt: While our financial system is itself very complex, our financial regulators would benefit in many cases by designing simple and robust approaches…