Demand and Supply Forces in the Market for Law Interplaying Through Jurisdictional Competition: Basic Theories and Cases

Inspired by corporate charter competitions in the 19th-century U.S. and contemporary Europe as well as the negative impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the U.S. cross-listing market, this article draws positive lessons from the above stories that demand and supply forces underlying jurisdictional competition constrains regulating jurisdictions from disregarding business demands and from imposing excessive regulation, and that jurisdictional competition brought about by mobility or exit would push for legal flexibility. Through the positive arguments developed in this article, regulatory jurisdictions in East Asia could, to an extent, understand the true costs and benefits of regulation in the international dimension among others, and regulate in light of that understanding.

並列關鍵字

Regulatory competition ； Mobility ； Law market forces ； Globalization ； Interest group competition

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