Hannah J. Wiseman: Public concerns have often focused on the chemicals used in the fracturing process, yet federal regulations requiring disclosure of chemicals are weak. Industry—along with state regulators—developed a website that enabled chemical disclosure…
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…
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…
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).
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…
Melissa A. Boudreau:
The European sovereign debt crisis has generated a number of controversial restructuring proposals that would have seemed appropriate only for emerging markets just a few years ago…
