Nicolas Véron

IFRS Governance Reform - Letter to the IASC Foundation

Last week Bruegel published my response to a consultation by the IASC Foundation, the body that oversees the setting of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), on reform of its governance arrangements. In my response, I call for more ambition in making the Foundation accountable to its ultimate stakeholdersin the global investment community.

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Will Governments Resist Overreaching?

My column this month considers the extraordinary increase of state power in the economy that results from the financial crisis. While massive intervention was justified by the emergency circumstances, the question now is how governments will use (or abuse) their newfound economic power or whether they will scale it back to maximize competitiveness. Early indications suggest that the risk of overreach is real.

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