Financial Crisis

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New Paper on Financial Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Aug 7, 2020

The Center on Finance, Law & Policy happily announces a new paper by Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Michael Barr, Harvard Law School professor Howell E. Jackson and Margaret E. Tahyar of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. The Financial...

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Harris sees changing role for fintech companies in response to COVID-19 economic crisis

May 29, 2020

Since its inception, the fintech industry has seen consistent change and evolution. An article on Finovate published May 28, says the past few months have seen even more rapid change in this “extraordinary time”. In the article, Adrienne Harris Ford...

Fireside chat with Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris of the New York Department of Financial Services

CFLP Update

A system-wide approach to measure connectivity in the financial sector

Aug 17, 2016

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...

CFLP Update

Article: Is the regime of algorithmic traders making the financial world more dangerous?

Aug 10, 2016

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...

CFLP Update

Expanding financial inclusion to the poor

Mar 20, 2016

“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...

Systemic Risk & Market Integrity

Financial stability

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...