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Greif on Contracts Among the Maghribi Traders
Avner Greif (Stanford University) has posted Contract Enforcement and Institutions Among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e...

SEC Approves "Potential" IFRS Roadmap: D-Day Six Years Hence
SEC Approves "Potential" IFRS Roadmap: D-Day Six Years Hence Yesterday, the SEC adopted a proposed roadmap for the potential transition by US companies from US GAAP to IFRS at an open Commission meeting...

WTO Director General Lamy Announces Aid-for-Trade Roadmap
The Director General of the WTO outlined the new roadmap for the Aid-for-Trade program at a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development on February 25.  The roadmap emphasizes three points: monitoring, implementation, and greater involvement of developing nations...

Our Roadmap: How to Comply with the SEC’s New Regulation FD Guidance
Our Roadmap: How to Comply with the SEC’s New Regulation FD Guidance I just wrapped up the Fall issue of InvestorRelationships.com, which includes an article entitled, "Our Roadmap: How to Comply with the SEC’s New Regulation FD Guidance...

SEC Proposes Roadmap to IFRS by 2014
The SEC voted to publish for public comment a proposed Roadmap that could lead to the use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. issuers beginning in 2014. The Commission would make a decision in 2011 on whether adoption...

Enforcement Strategies in UK Corporate Governance: A Roadmap and Empirical Assessment
The UK has, similarly to the US, deep and liquid securities markets and widely-dispersed ownership of publicly-traded firms. The central problem of corporate governance for publicly-traded firms in the UK is rendering managers accountable to shareholders...

Train Crash
25 Dead, 135 Injured in LA Rail Disaster