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,...

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...

Am 5. Mai 2020 verkündete das Bundesverfassungsgericht sein Urteil zur deutschen Beteiligung am Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) der Europäischen Zentralbank. Dieses Urteil ist vielfach kritisiert worden. Der Autor stellt dem eine alternative Deutung entgegen. So sieht er es als...