Description: In this discussion of President Obama’s financial regulatory reform on start-up companies, the author believes”that the proposed requirement has the potential to significantly increase the financial burden on an early-stage firm through increased scrutiny and record-keeping” This paper outlines the extent of the issues facing a start-up company due to the Administration's proposals, and offers solutions to the problems facing these entrepreneurs.

Description: This article argues that during boom times, it is virtually impossible to get regulators to oppose politicians who are being lobbied by financial services organizations, thus a bubble expands and a bust is inevitable.

Description: This article suggests Dodd-Frank's financial reform legislation doesn’t go far enough to reduce systemic risk. Paper provides suggestions that would improve outcomes if built into the regulations.

Description: This essay examines several key factors that have contributed to China’s success in the economic reform spanning the past three decades and the double-edged nature of these factors going forward.

Description: A discussion of the causes of Jamaica’s Life Insurance and Financial Sector Crisis in the late 1990s and its impacts on the life insurance industry