All Sarbanes-Oxley's efforts to control risk did not avoid the tremendous financial bubble and bust of the last several years.

This event will discuss the role Sarbanes-Oxley played in the financial crisis.

While the intent of theSarbanes-Oxley Actwas to prevent corporate fraud, there is growing evidence that it has done more harm than good.

The author discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, in light of corporate governance modelsfollowed by Dell, Inc.

On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which passed by a large bipartisan majority in the Congress. The Act is designed to facilitate the equity funding of new companies. Recent research has documented that from 1980 through the 2008-09 recession new companies have been main drivers of job creation in the United States. 

In a June conference at AEI, Kenneth Lehn and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh presented a paper suggesting that risk-taking by U.S. corporations has declined since the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Lehn paper compared U.S. companies with similar companies in the United Kingdom and found a...

Studies and experiments can determine whether Sarbanes-Oxley stimulates investment or imposes excessive costs.