This book reviews nine Supreme Court cases and decisions that dealt with monetary laws and gives a summary history of monetary events and policies as they were affected by the Court's decisions. Several cases and decisions had notable consequences on the monetary history of the United States,...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat im Februar 2014 seine Entscheidung zum Beschluss der Europäischen Zentralbank zum OMT-Programm vom September 2012 verkündet. Wie ist diese Entscheidung zu werten? Franz-Christoph Zeitler, Universität Augsburg und ehemals Deutsche Bundesbank, sieht in dem...

The Court is the Bank's Board of Directors. Its role has changed over the years as the Bank has evolved from a privately owned bank into a public institution, and especially over the past 20 years. In statute, Court's task is to ‘manage the affairs of the Bank'. It sets the Bank's strategy and...

This paper estimates the effect of Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on post-filing financial outcomes using a new dataset linking bankruptcy filings to credit bureau records. Our empirical strategy uses the leniency of randomly-assigned judges as an instrument for Chapter 13 protection. Over the...