CFLP Update

One year into the pandemic, small businesses need help more than ever. If you ask someone what they love about a neighborhood, it’s almost inevitable that they are going to mention a favorite local restaurant or shop, bookstore, or salon. Many...

The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project (DNEP) is hiring U-M undergraduates for the DNEP +Impact Studio for Local Business (+ISLB) internship program. This program is open to sophomores and juniors from the Ross School of Business, Ford...

On February 15, the Center on Finance, Law & Policy hosted “Fintech in the African Context” as part of the University of Michigan’s Africa Week. Panelists discussed regulatory frameworks, barriers to scale, and business models that respond to the...

In Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial Technology Won't Save a Broken System, U-M Professor Terri Friedline calls attention to systemic issues in society and the economy. Rather than separately dissecting issues, Professor Friedline groups these...

As part of the "Central Bank of the Future" research project undertaken by Primary Investigators Michael S. Barr and Adrienne Harris of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy between December 2018 and May 2021, the Center on Finance, Law &...

Two weeks ago, 22 students from the Law School, the Ross School of Business, and the Stamps School of Art & Design plus 10 faculty members from those same schools gathered in an unremarkable Ross classroom for what is the beginning of a remarkable...

The University of Michigan and U.S. Office of Financial Research are proud to present the speakers for this year's Big Data in Finance conference: Richard Berner Prior to his confirmation as OFR Director, Berner served as Counselor to the...

In testimony before the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, more commonly known as the ERISA Advisory Council on August 23, 2016, University of Michigan’s Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Business and Arthur F....

Center Faculty Director Michael Barr, along with Daniel Schaffa, PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan, with support from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, have released a working paper which analyzes the effect of the...

The Center on Finance, Law, and Policy is pleased to announce the creation of a new Working Paper series, by releasing six working papers produced by scholars as a result of the Center’s 2015 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability”...

Ever since the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 devastated the U.S. economy, many have tried to measure systemic risk — that is, the risk that the entire financial system will fail all at once.  University of Michigan Finance Professor Amiyatosh...

In an article published in The Conversation, Michael Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, considers the role of algorithmic traders (also known as algos, bots, and AIs) as...

Online registration is now available for the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law and Policy’s second annual conference with the federal Office of Financial Research. This year’s theme, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and...

University of Michigan’s Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, H.V. Jagadish recently coordinated the publication of a white paper on the research challenges posed by big data.  …"While the...

Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, a new textbook by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy’s Faculty Director, Professor Michael Barr, was published by Foundation Press in June 2016 and is now available!  Barr co-authored the textbook...

“The financial crisis of 2008 crushed families, businesses, and the real economy, and laid bare core failings of the financial system.  For the one in seven Americans who lives in poverty, or the millions of Americans who live in fear of falling out...

On the morning of President Obama’s final State of the Union speech, CFLP Faculty Director Michael Barr discusses the unfinished work of financial reform in an op-ed posted on cnbc.com: In the past, the financial system has contributed to...

In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today, Professor Michael S. Barr argues that the U.S. should not let Wall Street’s arguments for loopholes in global enforcement hamstring meaningful reform....

By Libby Benton Is the international financial regulatory system up to the task of overseeing the global financial system? This question, posed by Michigan Law professor Michael S. Barr, in his recent article “Who’s in Charge of Global Finance?”...

By Michael S. Barr & Kate Andrias  Last week we filed an amicus brief in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council on behalf of fifteen professors of law and finance with our co-authors, Professors Robert Jackson and Gillian Metzger of...

The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...