The logic of securities law /
"This book opens with a simple introduction to financial markets, attempting to understand the action and the players of Wall Street by comparing them to the action and the players of main street. Firstly, it explores the definition of a security by its function, the departure from the buyer be...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Real markets and financial markets
- Toward defining a security
- The vacuous definition of a security
- The function of investment contract
- Pricing mechanisms
- From the sale of business doctrine to Gustafson
- Gustafson works!
- Definition conclusion
- Introduction
- An overview of disclosure theories
- The failure of the corporate disclosure decision
- Introduction to deterrence intensity
- Comparing the economic function of deceit to that of securities fraud
- Reliance in deceit and securities fraud
- Conclusion of deterrence intensity
- Introduction to insider trading
- Insider trading law
- Defining insiders
- Concluding the insider trading analysis
- The virtuous cycle
- Closing note : financial crises and securities law