Biography
Morgan Ricks studies financial regulation. He is the author of The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and a co-author of Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy (2022). Professor Ricks joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2012 and was the 2019-21 Enterprise Scholar. Before he entered the legal academy, he was a senior policy advisor and financial restructuring expert at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2009 to 2010, where he focused primarily on financial stability initiatives and capital markets policy. Before joining the Treasury Department, he was a risk-arbitrage trader at Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund. He previously served as a vice president in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he specialized in strategic and capital-raising transactions for financial services companies. He began his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.
Programs
Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
B.A. Dartmouth College
Related Resources
Publications
Regulation and the Geography of Inequality
Money as Infrastructure
Organizational Law as Commitment Device
The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation
The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation, University of Chicago Press (2016)
FULL TEXT: | WWWEntry Restriction, Shadow Banking, and the Structure of Monetary Institutions
"Entry Restriction, Shadow Banking, and the Structure of Monetary Institutions," Journal of Financial Regulation (2016)
FULL TEXT: SSRNMoney and (Shadow) Banking: A Thought Experiment
Regulating Money Creation After the Crisis
Money, Private Law and Macroeconomic Disasters
FedAccounts: Digital Dollars
Federal Corporate Law and the Business of Banking
"Federal Corporate Law and the Business of Banking," University of Chicago Law Review 1361 (2021) (with Lev Menand)