Law & Economics
Portrait of Frank Partnoy
Scholar portraitSource: UC Berkeley Law

Partnoy

Frank Partnoy

Scholar of financial markets, derivatives, gatekeepers, and regulatory arbitrage

financial regulationderivativessecurities gatekeepers

Official Source Note

UC Berkeley Law lists Partnoy as Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law and describes his scholarship on business law, financial markets, fraud, securities litigation, and derivatives.

Partnoy is included because his work shows how legal categories influence financial engineering and how credit-rating agencies, auditors, lawyers, and other gatekeepers respond to liability and reputational incentives.

Source: UC Berkeley Law

Relevance to the Archive

Partnoy makes regulatory arbitrage and gatekeeper incentives central to understanding how financial innovation can weaken formal disclosure and risk-control regimes.

Representative Contributions

  • Financial Derivatives and the Costs of Regulatory Arbitrage (1997)
  • The Siskel and Ebert of Financial Markets (1999)
  • Barbarians at the Gatekeepers? (2001)

Works Included Here