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   "text": "Valuation is very likely to become the next major issue for the hedge fund industry, because most jurisdictions lack regulatory oversight of valuation and the industry generally lacks self-discipline and internal controls.",
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   "text": "Freedom from supervision and disclosure obligations was functional rather than incidental for hedge funds: it enabled successful fund launches, helped generate higher returns, and attracted investors, which is why manager registration is contested.",
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   "text": "Financial regulation is characterized and controlled by a classic collective action problem, and as a consequence regulatory oversight is never constant.",
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   "text": "Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Act and the SEC rules implementing it produced a paradigm shift in United States private fund regulation, raising regulatory oversight of an industry that had been largely exempt to unprecedented levels.",
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   "text": "Hedge funds now supply funding to the banking system that may be rapidly withdrawn during a liquidity crisis and supply a substantial share of the sellers' side of the credit default swap market, thereby assuming risks traditionally held by investment banks and insurance companies.",
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   "text": "A third channel is measurement rather than economics: if regulation curbs misreporting, private fund advisers' performance would appear to decrease simply because managers are less able to inflate their monthly returns.",
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   "text": "Because private funds evolved under low or no regulatory supervision until Dodd-Frank, the large prior literature on private fund performance largely does not assess the implications of private fund regulation, leaving a gap this study fills.",
   "abstract": "Because private funds evolved in a regulatory environment with low or no regulatory supervision until the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, most prior studies on private fund performance do not assess the implications of private fund regulation.",
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   "text": "The default regulatory remedy is impaired at the source: the IRS division charged with monitoring charities remains understaffed and underfinanced and is able to audit only a small percentage of charities annually.",
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   "text": "Mandatory AI use reporting fails as a transparency mechanism because it assumes accurate and complete disclosure, while regulated entities have incentives to underreport or misreport in order to avoid scrutiny and regulatory burdens.",
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   "text": "Expectations of enhanced regulatory oversight fail because the accelerating evolution of AI agents, which will soon dominate financial transactions, renders static legal frameworks obsolete.",
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