The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been heated debate about why the Federal Reserve did not rescue Lehman in the same way it rescued other financial...

This paper discusses key legal issues in the design of Board Oversight in central banks. Central banks are complex and sophisticated organizations that are challenging to manage. While most economic literature focuses on decision-making in the context of monetary policy formulation, this paper...

Introduction / Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, Ismail Ertürk, and Jakob Vestergaard -- Constraining descretion in bank regulation / Andrew G. Haldane -- Myths and fallacies in the discussion on capital regulation / Anat R. Admati, Peter M. Demarzo, Martin F. Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer --...