Regulatory Arbitrage

The use of one region or jurisdictions laws to create financial products which abuse or break another jurisdictions laws using legal loopholes, regulatory capture, or outright scofflaw and criminal behaviour.

Tax avoidance is a form of regulatory arbitrage.

Initial coin offerings are a form of regulatory arbitrage.

References

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  6. Jackson, Howell E., and Morgan Ricks. 2021. ‘Locating Stablecoins within the Regulatory Perimeter’. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/08/05/locating-stablecoins-within-the-regulatory-perimeter.
  7. Nabilou, Hossein, and André Prüm. 2019. ‘Ignorance, Debt, and Cryptocurrencies: The Old and the New in the Law and Economics of Concurrent Currencies’. Journal of Financial Regulation 5 (1): 29–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjz002.
  • Steele, Graham. 2021. ‘The Miner of Last Resort: Digital Currency, Shadow Money and the Role of the Central Bank’. Technology and Government, Emerald Studies in Media and Communications, Forthcoming.
  • Gorton, Gary B., and Jeffery Zhang. 2021. ‘Taming Wildcat Stablecoins’. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3888752.
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