Disclosure's Failure in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
14 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last revised: 25 Nov 2009
Abstract
This symposium article examines how disclosure, the regulatory focus of the federal securities laws, has failed to achieve transparency in the subprime mortgage crisis and what this failure means for modern financial securities markets.
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