Howell E. Jackson

Harvard Law School

James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law

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1.

Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 93, 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 0-28, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 638
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Howell E. Jackson and Mark J. Roe
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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investor protection, public enforcement, private enforcement, securities regulation

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Markets as Regulators: A Survey

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 1239, 2007
Number of pages: 144 Posted: 31 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2009
Stavros Gadinis and Howell E. Jackson
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Harvard Law School
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The Role of Credit Rating Agencies in the Establishment of Capital Standards for Financial Institutions in a Global Economy

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Nov 2000
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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The Regulation of Consumer Financial Products: An Introductory Essay with Four Case Studies

HKS Working Paper No. RWP10-40
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2010
John Y. Campbell, Howell E. Jackson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Peter Tufano
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Law School, Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Consumer Finance, Mortgages, Payday Lending, Retirement Savings, Mutual Funds, Financial Regulation, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

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Variation in the Intensity of Financial Regulation: Preliminary Evidence and Potential Implications

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 521, Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Regulatory Competition in International Securities Markets: Evidence from Europe in 1999 ? Part I

Business Lawyer, Vol. 56, p. 653, February 2001
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2008
Howell E. Jackson and Eric J. Pan
Harvard Law School and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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A Pragmatic Approach to the Phased Consolidation of Financial Regulation in the United States

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-19
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 13 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Financial Regulation, Financial Institutions, Systemic Risk, Consolidated Supervision

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Regulation in a Multi-Sectored Financial Services Industry: An Exploratory Essay

Harvard Law School Discussion Paper No. 258
Number of pages: 117 Posted: 31 May 1999 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2009
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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An American Perspective on the U.K. Financial Services Authority: Politics, Goals & Regulatory Intensity

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 522
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Oct 2005
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Retiree Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending: A Study of Consumer Expectations and Policy Implications

American Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 13-04, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 11 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2013
Allison K. Hoffman and Howell E. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard Law School
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health law, health policy, Medicare, out-of-pocket costs, financial literacy, Medicare reform, health insurance

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Regulatory Competition in International Securities Markets: Evidence from Europe - Part II

Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 247, Virginia Law & Business Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 207, 2008
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Eric J. Pan and Howell E. Jackson
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Harvard Law School
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securities regulation, international finance, securities offerings, cross-border listing, Rule 144A, American Depositary Receipts, capital markets competitiveness

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Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, Chapter 1.1 - Finance Today

Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, Foundation Press, May 2016, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-014, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 507, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-34
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 May 2016 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2016
Michael S. Barr, Howell E. Jackson and Margaret E. Tahyar
University of Michigan Law School, Harvard Law School and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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financial regulation, finance, financial services, Dodd-Frank Act, banking, insurance, securities, capital markets, consumer protection, systemically important financial institutions, payment systems, mutual funds, derivatives, shadow banking

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Accounting for Social Security and its Reform

Harvard Journal on Legislation, Winter 2004
Number of pages: 130 Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Social Security, accounting, federal budget, pensions, FASAB

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Loan-Level Disclosure in Securitization Transactions: A Problem with Three Dimensions

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-40
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2010
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Securitization, Asset Back Securities, HMDA, Anti-Discrimation, Mortgages, Risk Retention, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, Consumer Protection Act

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The Trilateral Dilemma in Financial Regulation

IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND SAVINGS PROGRAMS, Anna Maria Lusardi, ed., University of Chicago Press, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-58
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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financial institutions, agency costs, mortgage lending, predatory lending, student loans, mutual funds, pension plans, insurance companies, securities firms

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A Report on the Transatlantic Financial Services Regulatory Dialogue

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 576
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Kern Alexander, Eilis Ferran, Howell E. Jackson and Niamh Moloney
University of Zurich, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School and London School of Economics - Law Department
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Final Report of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of the International Bar Association

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Margaret E. Tahyar, Jaap Willeumier, Eric J. Pan, Howell E. Jackson and Eilis Ferran
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Stibbe, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Securities regulation, mutual recognition, international finance, extraterritorial

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Foreign Trading Screens in the United States

Capital Markets Law Journal, Vol. 1, pp. 54-76, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 549
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2015
Howell E. Jackson, Andreas Martin Fleckner and Mark Gurevich
Harvard Law School, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Ropes & Gray
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stock exchange, trading screen, securities trading, internationalization, state intervention, protectionism, legal harmonization

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Learning from Eddy: A Meditation Upon Organizational Reform of Financial Supervision in Europe

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-17
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Financial Regulation, Consolidated Supervision, European Union, Regulatory Reform

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Lobbyists as Imperfect Agents: Implications for Public Policy in a Pluralist System

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-12
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2009
Matthew Stephenson and Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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administrative, law, public, policy, lobby, lobbyist, interest group

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Kickbacks or Compensation: The Case of Yield Spread Premiums

Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Vol. 12, p. 289, 2007
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2009
Laurie Burlingame and Howell E. Jackson
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard Law School
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Mortgage, broker, yield spread premium, agency costs, RESPA

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Accounting for Social Security Benefits

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 520
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 31 Oct 2005
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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The Resolution of Distressed Financial Conglomerates

Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2017, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 17-14
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
Howell E. Jackson and Stephanie Massman
Harvard Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Financial Conglomerates, Single Point of Entry, Orderly Liquidation Authority, Dodd-Frank Act, Financial Regulation

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The Selective Incorporation of Foreign Legal Systems to Promote Nepal as an an International Financial Services Center

Harvard Law School, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Discussion Paper No. 241
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Jan 1999
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Fiduciary Duties in Financial Regulation

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-24
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 May 2018 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2018
Howell E. Jackson and Talia B. Gillis
Harvard Law School and Harvard University, Law School
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fiduciary duties, fiduciary law, financial regulation, broker-dealer, banking, insurance, securities, ERISA, agency, disclosure, codification

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Private and Public Enforcement of Securities Regulation

Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (2017) (Jeffrey Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe, eds.), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Feb 2017
Howell E. Jackson and Jeffery Zhang
Harvard Law School and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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private enforcement, public enforcement, securities, regulation, capital markets, enforcement intensity, regulatory reform, banking, financial stability, Securities and Exchange Commission

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Essay: Sticky Seconds - The Problems Second Liens Pose to the Resolution of Distressed Mortgages

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-21
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Aug 2012
Vicki Been, Howell E. Jackson and Mark A. Willis
New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and New York University (NYU)
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Counting the Ways: The Structure of Federal Spending

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 583
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 May 2007
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Can States Tax National Banks to Educate Consumers About Predatory Lending Practices?

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 577
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Howell E. Jackson and Stacy A. Anderson
Harvard Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Could We Invest the Surplus?

Tax Notes, P. 1245, February 26, 2001
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 06 Apr 2001
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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The 2011 Debt Ceiling Impasse Revisited

Is U.S. Government Debt Different? (2012) (Franklin Allen, et al., eds)
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 Aug 2017
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School
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Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Policy, Default, U.S. Government Debt

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Transatlantic Financial Services Regulatory Dialogue

European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), Vol. 7, 2006
Posted: 19 Feb 2007
Kern Alexander, Eilis Ferran, Howell E. Jackson and Niamh Moloney
University of Zurich, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School and London School of Economics - Law Department

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financial markets, regulation, European Union, Transatlantic, Dialogue, cross-border services

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Regulatory Problems in Privatizing Social Security

Posted: 22 Feb 1999
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School

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The Regulation of Financial Holding Companies

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman, Ed.), May 1998
Posted: 11 Jan 1998
Howell E. Jackson
Harvard Law School

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