The Center on Finance, Law, and Policy is pleased to announce the release of its summary paper from its fourth annual financial stability conference, co-hosted with the U.S. Office of Financial Research (OFR). This two-day interdisciplinary...
Michael Barr joined noted DC appellate attorney Deepak Gupta as co-counsel on a June 27 amicus brief, submitted by financial regulation scholars and former government officials who have worked to prevent violent non-state actors from accessing 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”...
On October 22-23, 2015, more than 250 regulators, policymakers, financial market participants, and academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Ann Arbor to explore how methods from diverse fields can be used to better...
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...
This event will be virtual.
Ten years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, and in the midst of an even more devastating economic and public health crisis, what are the risks to the financial system and the U.S. economy? This conference will explore whether the Act created an enduring structure to make the financial system fairer, safer, and better harnessed to the needs of the real economy. Panels will explore the policy choices made in the Dodd-Frank Act, DFA’s implementation over the decade, changes during the Trump Administration, current and potential risks to the financial system, debates over consumer protection, and the future of reform.
Submitted to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) March 2019. For the fourth consecutive year, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy co-hosted a conference addressing...
How can financial data be made more accessible and more secure, as well as more useful to regulators, market participants, and the public? As new data sets are created, opportunities emerge. Vast quantities of financial data may help identify...
Since 2015, we have hosted an annual large-scale conference with the U.S. Office of Financial Research to convene regulators, policymakers, journalists, and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to present research on different topics impacting financial...
