A forthcoming academic study has done just that for one regulator, tracking the money investors have received from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s efforts to punish frauds and other financial crimes.
The results of the research, to be published in the Stanford Law Review in 2015, cast the SEC’s performance in an interesting light: The regulator is surprisingly good in small cases, less so in big ones.
via The SEC Record of Small and Big Bucks – MoneyBeat – WSJ
