Our paper is now live in the Journal of Statistical Physics.
Tag: 10-k
Measuring the Temperature and Diversity of the U.S. Regulatory Ecosystem – Bommarito + Katz – Presentation at Stanford CodeX on April 5th 2017
We are excited to be giving a talk at Stanford the day before the Future Law Conference. Our talk will be hosted by Stanford CodeX – The Center for Legal Informatics. If you are in the Bay Area – you can join us by signing up for free here.
The underlying paper is available here. Some starter slides here (start at slide 158) and we will be previewing our second paper in this three part series.
The rate at which US Companies cite regulations as an obstacle has quadrupled over the last 20 years (via Quartz)
“Michael Bommarito II and Daniel Martin Katz, legal scholars at the Illinois Institute of Technology, have tried to measure the growth of regulation by analyzing more than 160,000 corporate annual reports, or 10-K filings, at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In a pre-print paper released Dec. 29, the authors find that the average number of regulatory references in any one filing increased from fewer than eight in 1995 to almost 32 in 2016. The average number of different laws cited in each filing more than doubled over the same period.”