Mark Roe
Mark Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School. He is the author of studies of the impact of politics on corporate organization and corporate governance in the United States and around the world.
Mark Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School. He is the author of studies of the impact of politics on corporate organization and corporate governance in the United States and around the world.
Beneath the surface of France’s first-round presidential election results is a potential coalition that should give pause to those celebrating the supposed triumph of liberal democracy. Even if the Fr… read more
The 2008 crisis exposed a serious weakness in the global financial system’s architecture: the overnight market for mortgage-backed securities. Some nine years later, that weakness has not been address… read more
Disturbing evidence has emerged suggesting that, overall, the global financial system is no safer today than it was in 2007. Most blame misguided regulation, but the real problem might be the evacuati… read more
Hillary Clinton has made stopping corporate short-termism part of her platform, proposing to use the capital gains tax to encourage stockholders to hold onto their stock for a longer time. But the pla… read more
Republican House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling recently proposed a battery of changes to bank regulation in the US. Most of his ideas are political nonstarters, but his plan for an "off-r… read more
The idea that financial markets are too focused on the short term has gained considerable ground within much of the news media and among some academics in recent years, and now it is attracting politi… read more
Greece would suffer from an exit from the eurozone, but at least it would regain the ability to devalue its currency. For Europe, however, the risk is all on the downside, with the possibility that th… read more
The closer China’s economic ties with the rest of the world become, the more it will have to lose from a breakdown in international relations. It is better that China be convinced that economic engage… read more
After the financial crisis forced governments to bail out systemically important banks, regulators implemented measures to safeguard the financial system. Recent studies suggest that their efforts are… read more
