What Future for Disclosure as a Regulatory Technique? Lessons from Behavioural Decision Theory and the Global Financial Crisis

The Future of Financial Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 205-226

  Avgouleas, Emilios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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