Finance & Corporate Law
Vanderbilt's top-ranked finance and corporate law faculty have made significant scholarly contributions in the areas of banking, digital currency, antitrust, corporate governance, and more. Through academic programs, policy accelerators, partnerships, and special initiatives, faculty help shape the future of business in the U.S. while training the next generation of legal experts in the fields of financial and corporate law.
Payments, Stablecoins, and CBDCs in the Global Economy
A report co-authored by Yesha Yadav unpacks how stablecoins and CBDCs can address financial inequalities and inefficiencies in the U.S. payment system and examines policy pathways for how they can be regulated effectively and safely.
Bankruptcy
The Inconsistency of Debt Relief
Nicole Langston identifies inequities in the bankruptcy code that disadvantage marginalized individuals.
Corporate Governance
Founder-Friendly Venture Capitalists
Research by Brian Broughman offers a new "risk-seeking" model for VC behavior.
Financial Regulation
The Effects of Mandatory Central Clearing on the U.S. Treasury Market
Yesha Yadav co-authors a paper that spotlights the potential benefits and trade-offs of a transformative SEC rule.
Rethinking Financial Regulation
In The Money Problem, Morgan Ricks offers a practical yet elegant blueprint for a modernized system of money and banking—one that, crucially, can be accomplished through incremental changes to the United States’ current system.
By treating private money as cash deposits issued by a designated class of commercial entities licensed specifically for this purpose and backed by the sovereign public treasury, Ricks' system mitigates the risk of catastrophic financial panic.
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator
Banks as Public Utilities
In a paper from the VPA’s Project on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities, Morgan Ricks and Lev Menand argue that a modernized public utilities approach would reduce complexity, expand access and inclusion, promote economic equality, and dramatically decrease the likelihood of future macroeconomic disasters.
Corporate Governance
Delaware's Shifting Judicial Role in Business Governance
A follow-up effort to a 2004 study co-authored by Randall Thomas identifies significant changes and developments in the state’s corporate law landscape.