May 30, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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In a recent Business Week article, Hernando de Soto is once again peddling his simplistic view of property rights as the path to pure market transparency. He argues, to considerable journalistic and popular acclaim, that the problem with derivatives markets … Continue reading
April 21, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Earlier this month, Stephen Lubben at Dealbook posted an interesting piece querying whether there may be hidden costs associated with giving banks huge breaks in their capitalization requirements under Basel III for close-out netting, the clause in the ISDA master … Continue reading
November 21, 2010
by Annelise Riles
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Yesterday at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting I went to hear Gillian Tett, a journalist for the Financial Times, talk about how her own training in anthropology (like me, she holds a doctorate from Cambridge) had shaped her reporting … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
by Annelise Riles
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Does good financial regulation only happen in legislatures, regulators’ offices, and at international meetings of central bankers? What about what goes on between lawyers and their clients, between back office clerks and front office traders? Inside computer systems? What about … Continue reading
October 26, 2010
by Annelise Riles
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Most people think about the debate about health care reform and the debate about financial regulation reform as quite separate problems. But are they really? Every first-year derivatives textbook tells the student that derivatives are a form of insurance—a way … Continue reading