Disclosure’s Failure in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Authors

Steven L. Schwarcz, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Keywords

disclosure, subprime mortgage crisis

Abstract

This symposium article examines how disclosure, the regulatory focus of the federal securities laws, has failed to achieve transparency in the sub-prime mortgage crisis and what this failure means for modern financial securities markets.

Citation

Steven L. Schwarcz, Disclosure’s Failure in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2008 Utah Law Review 1109-1122 (2008)