Regulatory Arbitrage.

Fleischer, V. (2010). Regulatory Arbitrage. Texas Law Review, 89(2), 227-289.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

Link

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1567212

Cited from

philosophy, security_intelligence

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Adversarial Boundary Navigation
  • Regulatory arbitrage and structuring. Corporate structuring to fall on the safe side of tax, securities, or sanctions boundaries while preserving the economic substance the regulator meant to constrain; transactions sized just below reporting thresholds.

    This sourceFirst comprehensive theory of regulatory arbitrage — restructuring a deal to exploit the gap between its economics and its regulatory treatment while preserving economic substance — the rule-concept-gap exploitation in tax/securities/sanctions law.

• Brandolini's Law
  • Regulation — a regulated party can propose evasive interpretations and loopholes faster than a regulator can audit and close them.

    This sourceProvides the first comprehensive theory of regulatory arbitrage — parties restructure deals to exploit gaps between economic substance and regulatory treatment faster than regulators can respond — evidencing the loophole-versus-audit cost asymmetry.

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