Corporate compliance : new approaches to regulatory enforcement / Sharon Oded.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oded, Sharon.

Series:

New Horizons in Law and Economics Series

New horizons in law and economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law.

Tort liability of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book considers how a regulatory enforcement policy should be designed to efficiently induce proactive corporate compliance. It first explores two major schools of thought regarding law enforcement, both the deterrence and cooperative approaches, and shows that neither of these represents an optimal regulatory enforcement paradigm from a social-welfare perspective. It provides a critical analysis of recent developments in US Federal corporate liability regimes, and proposes a generic framework that better tailors sanction schemes and monitoring systems to regulatee performance. The propose

Contents:

pt. I. Major schools of thought regarding law enforcement

pt. II. Corporate liability and the incentive apparatus for corporate proactive compliance

pt. III. Corporate monitors : can "swords" turn into "shields"?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78195-475-5

OCLC:

857365160