最新研究称，稳定的法律和经济构架、透明的商业监管，让伦敦成为全球经济中非常重要的城市。
A stable legal and economic framework and transparent1 business regulation make London the most important city in the world economy, according to new research.
由万事达委托写作的这份报告，对全球50大商业中心城市进行了排名。纽约敌不过伦敦，屈居第二，东京名列第三，芝加哥名列第四。这份报告进一步证实了另外几份报告的结果：金融业务比率降低、公司对严格监管叫苦不迭，威胁到了纽约作为全球最重要金融之都的地位。
A report on the TOP 50 centres of commerce, commissioned by MasterCard, shows London beating New York into second place, with Tokyo third and Chicago fourth. It confirms what several other reports have shown: that a falling share of financial business and complaints about heavy-handed regulation have challenged New York's position as the world's pre-eminent financial capital.
这一排名结合了6项商业实力指标，其中包含财务流、业务量与常识创造和分配。报告由一组专门研究经济、商业、城市研究和金融的学者写作。 The index combines six measures of commercial power, including flows of finance, volumes of business and the creation and dis百度竞价推广ination2 of knowledge. It was developed by a team of academics specialising in economics, business, urban studies and finance.
这份报告并不计划对各城市经商的难易程度简单地进行一个角逐性排名，而是把各项产出标准（如金融市场股票和债券买卖量）与商业投入指标（如雇用工人、开设和关闭企业的容易程度）结合起来。
The index is not intended as a simple competitive ranking of the ease of doing business in cities, but mixes together measures of output, such as the volume of financial market transactions in equities3 and bonds, with indicators4 of business inputs5 such as the ease of employing workers and opening and closing businesses.
万事达经济顾问王月魂指出：这类指标之间有多层次的联系，具备双向因果关系。
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, economic adviser6 to MasterCard, said: There are multiple layers of connectivity between the indicators, with causality running in both directions.
为伦敦市长肯o利文斯通主管经济和商业政策的罗思义表示，监管的可预见性和透明性是伦敦明显胜过纽约之处。他指出：大家没美国那种繁重且愈加飘忽不定的监管。
John Ross, director of economic and business policy for Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, said that the predictability and clarity of regulation were obvious advantages for London over New York. We do not have the onerous8 and increasingly erratic9 regulation of the US, he said.
我觉得《萨班斯-奥克斯利法》并非最糟糕的方面。我接触过的企业也这么觉得。最糟糕的是监管和政策方面争斗不休且独断专行的文化。
I don't think Sarbanes-Oxley is even the worst aspect of it, and nor do the companies I have talked to. It is the litigious and apparently10 arbitrary culture of regulation and policy.
