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   "text": "Post-1998 hedge fund regulatory proposals were misdirected because LTCM was unique among its peers in leverage, position size, and market-making ability, so the proposals mostly addressed LTCM as a single case rather than the range of issues affecting all hedge funds.",
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   "text": "Because hedge funds play a large role in the credit derivatives market and that market recently failed, an increased regulatory emphasis on banks' lending exposure to hedge funds is justified.",
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   "text": "The SEC would be better advised to interpret the rulemaking authority it received from Congress than to increase requirements on hedge funds in order to address concerns over potential systemic risk.",
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   "text": "Legislators had disincentives to impose harsher requirements on the hedge fund industry before the crisis, because harsher regulation could have driven franchise taxes and other business to offshore centers.",
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   "text": "Before Dodd-Frank the perimeter of hedge fund regulation was set by SEC no-action letters on client counting and by courts that gave very limited and sometimes contradictory guidance, so compliance rested on an unstable and uncertain base rather than on rules.",
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   "text": "No prior study had analyzed the performance implications of hedge fund adviser regulation, making this the first estimate of the causal effect of the Dodd-Frank Act registration requirement on hedge fund returns.",
   "abstract": "To our knowledge, no other study has analyzed the implications of hedge fund adviser regulation.",
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   "text": "Direct hedge fund regulation faces a two sided trap: strong direct rules push hedge funds offshore where they escape regulation altogether, while weak rules leave investors without adequate protection.",
   "abstract": "Yet, regulators are faced with the problem of jurisdictional arbitrage, i.e. if they regulate directly, hedge funds may relocate offshore and escape from regulation altogether. If regulators impose weak regulations, investors may not be afforded adequate protection.",
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   "text": "Indirect regulation of hedge funds attains most regulatory objectives while still leaving the industry the operating freedom it needs, which makes it preferable to the direct alternatives.",
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   "text": "There is currently no precise formula for devising effective integrated prudential hedge fund regulation, so the prudential model remains underspecified.",
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