Lev Menand

Columbia University - Law School

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1.

FedAccounts: Digital Dollars

Vanderbilt Law Research Paper 18-33, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 287, George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2020
Morgan Ricks, John Crawford and Lev Menand
Vanderbilt University - Law School, UC Law, San Francisco and Columbia University - Law School
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banking, central banking, payments

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Why Supervise Banks? The Foundations of the American Monetary Settlement

74 Vanderbilt Law Review 951
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 17 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Bank Supervision, Banking Law, Financial Institutions, Financial Regulation, Money, Monetary System

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The Federal Reserve and the 2020 Economic and Financial Crisis

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 518/2020, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, Vol. 24, 2021
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 07 May 2021
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Central Banking, Money, Banking, Lender of Last Resort, Monetary Policy, CARES Act, Federal Reserve, 13(3), Repo, Swap Lines, Emergency Lending, ESF, Shadow Banking, Eurodollars

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The Logic and Limits of the Federal Reserve Act

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 16 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 06 May 2022
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Federal Reserve, Money, Banking, Central Banking, Shadow Banking, Monetary Policy

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Microinsurance: A Case Study of the Indian Rainfall Index Insurance Market

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5459
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Xavier Giné, Lev Menand, Robert M. Townsend and James I. Vickery
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Columbia University - Law School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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Climate Change Economics, Insurance Law, Debt Markets, Financial Literacy, Insurance & Risk Mitigation

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Building the Payment System of the Future: How Central Banks Can Improve Payments to Enhance Financial Inclusion

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-038
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
Michael S. Barr, Adrienne Harris, Lev Menand and Wenqi (Michael) Xu
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Columbia University - Law School and University of Michigan, Center on Finance, Law, and Policy
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payment systems, finTech, financial inclusion, cryptocurrencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), stablecoins, real-time payments, remittances, case studies, China, Kenya, Philippines, emerging markets, emerging technologies

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Rebuilding Banking Law: Banks as Public Utilities

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 732/2023
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 14 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2023
Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks
Columbia University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Money, Banking, Public Utilities, Monetary System, Monetary Policy

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Federal Corporate Law and the Business of Banking

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 575/2021
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks
Columbia University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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corporate law, money, banking, financial regulation, fintech

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Should Central Banks Use Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies to Advance Financial Inclusion?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 May 2021
Michael S. Barr, Adrienne Harris, Lev Menand and Karin Thrasher
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Columbia University - Law School and Center on Finance, Law, and Policy
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central bank digital currencies, CBDC, DLT, AML, interoperability, financial inclusion, permissionless ledgers, blockchain, fintech

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Too Big to Supervise: The Rise of Financial Conglomerates and the Decline of Discretionary Oversight in Banking

103 Cornell L. Rev 1527
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2019
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Financial Regulation, Bank Supervision, Banking Law

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The Three Permissions: Presidential Removal and the Statutory Limits of Agency Independence

121 Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2020
Jane Manners and Lev Menand
Temple Beasley School of Law and Columbia University - Law School
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Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Independent Agencies, Removal Law, Legal History, Legal Theory

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Money and the Public Debt: Treasury Market Liquidity as a Legal Phenomenon

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2023, No. 1, 2023
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 29 Sep 2023
Lev Menand and Josh Younger
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University
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Money, Public Debt, Banking, Central Banking, Market Liquidity, Treasury Market, Bank Regulation, Financial Regulation, Broker Dealers, Hedge Funds, Federal Reserve, Repo Market, Shadow Banking

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Comment Letter - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Warning of the Dangers Posed by the Shadow Payment System and Shadow Digital Money

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-43, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 648
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2021
Dan Awrey, Lev Menand and James McAndrews
Cornell Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute, Columbia University - Law School and Wharton Financial Institutions Center
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Bank Regulation; Financial Institutions; Monetary Institutions; Deposit Taking; Shadow Payment System; Shadow Digital Money; Money Services Businesses

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Shadow Digital Money

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Apr 2020
James McAndrews and Lev Menand
Wharton Financial Institutions Center and Columbia University - Law School
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Money and payments, financial institutions, banking, financial regulation, MSBs, money transmitters, monetary policy

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The Banker Removal Power

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Da Lin and Lev Menand
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law, Student/Alumni and Columbia University - Law School
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Money, Banking, Central Banking, Removal, Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation

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A New Measure of Central Bank Independence

IMF Working Paper No. 2024/035
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Feb 2024
Tobias Adrian, Ashraf Khan and Lev Menand
International Monetary Fund, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Columbia University - Law School
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Central bank independence, monetary policy, governance, transparency

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Written Testimony in a Senate Hearing on Building a Stronger Financial System: Opportunities of a Central Bank Digital Currency

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Jun 2021
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Central Banking, Federal Reserve, Money and Banking, Central Bank Digital Currency, Financial Regulation, Cryptocurrency

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A Ten-Point Plan for Making Banking a Public Utility

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 07 Oct 2023
Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks
Columbia University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Money, Banking, Public Utilities, Monetary System, Monetary Policy

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One System, Two Mandates: The Fed and Orderly Markets in Government Debt

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2025
Lev Menand and Josh Younger
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University
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Recovering the Lost History of Presidential Removal Law

Administrative and Regulatory Law News, 2020
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 20 Jul 2020
Jane Manners and Lev Menand
Temple Beasley School of Law and Columbia University - Law School
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Administrative Law, CFPB, Removal, Independent Agencies, Separation of Powers

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Stilling the Pendulum: Regulatory, Supervisory, and Structural Approaches

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 273, 2017
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 03 May 2018
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Financial Regulation, Banking Law, Banking, Dodd-Frank Act

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The Making of Presidential Administration

137 Harvard Law Review 2131 (2024), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 4590261, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-29
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 10 Oct 2023
Ashraf Ahmed, Lev Menand and Noah A. Rosenblum
Columbia Law School, Columbia University - Law School and New York University School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, Legal History, Unitary Executive, Administrative Law

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Statement of Lev Menand before the Democratic Member Roundtable on Deposit Insurance Reform

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Lev Menand
Columbia University - Law School
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Money, Banking, Depository Institutions, Deposits, Deposit Insurance, Public Utility Regulation

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One System, Two Mandates: The Federal Reserve and the Public Debt

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 23 Apr 2025
Lev Menand and Josh Younger
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University
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Federal Reserve