Our Experts Respond to President Trump on Securities Regulation

The CLS Blue Sky Blog seeks to focus on current events, and the president has given us an opportunity. He has suggested a shift from a quarterly to a six-month reporting cycle. How would this proposal affect the cost of capital, stock prices, liquidity, the bid/asked spread, and the asserted pressure on managers to sacrifice long term value for short term profit? Below are the views of our five columnists: John C. Coffee, Jr., James D. Cox, Donald C. Langevoort, Joshua R. Mitts, and Charles K. Whitehead.