We are losing the fight against financial crime. This article proposes a radical new solution: create a market for detection. It advocates for a new program in which Licensed Detection Agents are empowered to perform surveillance and financially rewarded for reporting suspicious activity.
There is substantial cross-national variation in the level of regulatory clarity surrounding cryptocurrencies. This article presents a new conceptual framework centered on the concept of "market legibility" to explain the dynamics of market regulation.
National surveillance is often insufficient to identify transnational issues. This article theorizes the conditions in which states will outsource supranational surveillance powers to international organizations.
Public agencies often outsource tasks to non-state actors. But what happens when they want to reclaim those powers? This article examines the understudied history of U.S. trade surveillance to understand the lifecycle of regulatory delegation.
This article puts forward a novel two-step theory of institutional creation and change to explain the proliferation of multilateral development banks (MDBs).
This report highlights best practices across eleven international organizations and outlines seven domains where institutions can learn from each other.