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Free Accounting Fridays for small business owners

Apr 18, 2018

As a result of the successful pilot held March-April 2018, the University of Michigan’s Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is thrilled to announce that free accounting Fridays will continue! Business owners in Detroit take note: Does your...

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Students: sign up to help Detroit entrepreneurs this fall — and get credit

Apr 17, 2018

Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is thrilled to announce the following opportunities for University of Michigan students to assist Detroit small businesses in the Fall 2018 semester. Law students: There is currently a waiting list for...

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Meet one of the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project clients

Apr 4, 2018

The University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy thanks MCubed for producing this fantastic video featuring Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project (DNEP) client Detroit Sip. Detroit Sip is now open for business! DNEP is supported...

Student holding up a prototype of the Detroit Sip sign

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Summer research assistants wanted

Apr 4, 2018

The Center on Finance, Law, and Policy is seeking law, MPP, and MBA students as well as PhD students in economics, sociology, psychology, and business to assist with research during the Summer semester (May-August 2018). Students would work on a...

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Ross accounting students offer free office hours on Fridays, expand Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project

Mar 31, 2018

Solid financials are the backbone of any small business, but getting a business’ books in order is no small task. Since March 9, accounting students from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, working under faculty supervision, have...

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IPC hosts U.S & Chinese Scholars on China's International Development

Mar 23, 2018

On March 16, the International Policy Center hosted distinguished guests from United States and China for a research workshop entitled “China’s Impact in the International Development Arena.” The workshop series is a new initiative at the...

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The center turns five! (come eat cake with us on May 14th!)

Mar 20, 2018

In April of 2013, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited the University of Michigan Law School for a roundtable conversation on how to advance academic research on the causes of financial crises, crisis prevention, and crisis response. ...

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Big data in finance conference paper makes SSRN top 10 download list

Mar 20, 2018

On March 17, 2018, the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy's summary paper describing the proceedings of the 2016 Big Data in Finance Conference hit SSRN's Top 10 download list for Emerging Legal Issues! Congratulations to...

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Dean Michael S. Barr writes Congress in American Banker op-ed to discourage re-write of Dodd-Frank Act

Mar 13, 2018

In a recent op-ed published in American Banker, Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr says the U.S. Senate’s new relief bill is a giveaway for large banks and weakens consumer protections.The bill is the first re-write of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, of...

Dean Michael S. Barr writes Congress in American Banker op-ed to discourage re-write of Dodd-Frank Act

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DC circuit appeals court rules in favor of CFPB legitimacy, as argued by Barr et al

Feb 1, 2018

This summer, Ford School Dean Michael Barr served as co-counsel on an amicus brief by leading financial regulation scholars in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The suit, brought by a NJ-based mortgage lender that had been fined...

Dean Michael Barr sounds off: Washington politics put renters at risk

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Detroit’s Entrepreneurs of Color Fund triples investments, celebrates 2nd anniversary

Dec 14, 2017

Michael S. Barr, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School, participated in a roundtable discussion at Detroit’s Gem Theater this morning, during which JP Morgan Chase, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr....

Detroit’s Entrepreneurs of Color Fund triples investments, celebrates 2nd anniversary

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Dean Barr: “It’s not too late to turn this car around” on undermining financial regs, CFPB

Dec 7, 2017

In a Fortune op-ed, “How the CFPB fight is a sign of the next financial crisis,” Michael Barr and Joe Valenti (director of consumer finance at the Center for American Progress) describe how the current legal battle over who is the rightful director...

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Speaker bios for FinTech conference

Nov 20, 2017

The University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and U.S. Office of Financial Research are pleased to host the following speakers for our third annual financial stability conference: FinTech Risks and Opportunities: An Interdisciplinary...

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Behavioral Finance Symposium explores intersection of economics, psychology, policy

Sep 19, 2017

The 2017 Behavioral Finance Symposium, held September 14-15 at the University of Michigan, brought together prominent scholars, policymakers, and practitioners for two days of dialogue about ways to apply insights from the behavioral sciences, which...

Behavioral Finance Symposium explores intersection of economics, psychology, policy

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NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

Sep 11, 2017

Michael Barr and colleagues from the College of Engineering (Michael Wellman) and Ross School of Business (Uday Rajan) have been awarded a $670,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new techniques to identify financial market...

NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

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Detroit neighborhood entrepreneurs project looking for a few more business students

Sep 5, 2017

The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project, an interdisciplinary clinic that pairs Detroit neighborhood-based businesses with students from the Ross School of Business, Law School, and Stamps School of Art & Design is looking for a few more...

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Center on Finance, Law, and Policy secures grant to assist Detroit entrepreneurs

Aug 30, 2017

Students interview a pop-up restaurateur in Detroit as part of the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project.Photo credit: Abigail DeHart '19LThe Center on Finance, Law, and Policy, run by faculty director Michael Barr, has received a $125,000...

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What is behavioral finance?

Aug 24, 2017

Sponsored by Omidyar Network, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U-M Ford School of Public Policy, U-M Ross School of Business, U-M Law School, Paul Lee, John Lummis, and Bill...

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Amici brief: Barr files on behalf of financial regulation scholars in U.U. supreme court case

Jul 3, 2017

Michael Barr joined noted DC appellate attorney Deepak Gupta as co-counsel on a June 27 amicus brief, submitted by financial regulation scholars and former government officials who have worked to prevent violent non-state actors from accessing the...

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Amici brief: FinReg scholars defend CFPB in DC circuit case

Jul 3, 2017

On March 31, 2017, Center on Finance, Law, and Policy faculty director Michael S. Barr of University of Michigan Law School, well-known Supreme Court and appellate litigator Deepak Gupta, and Georgetown Law professor Adam Levitin, as counsel of...

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Michael Barr named dean of the Ford School of Public Policy

Jun 15, 2017

Michael S. Barr will be the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective Aug. 1. His five-year appointment was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents. Barr is the Roy F. and Jean...

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Why employers make you opt-out of retirement contributions and banks want you to round up your change: an intro to behavioral finance

Mar 6, 2017

In their 2008 book Nudge, researchers Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein distinguish between two types of individuals: humans and Econs. Econs are “these strange creatures” found only in economics textbooks. They are unemotional, smart and never have...

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New U-M interdisciplinary clinic assists Detroit entrepreneurs

Feb 2, 2017

Two weeks ago, 22 students from the Law School, the Ross School of Business, and the Stamps School of Art & Design plus 10 faculty members from those same schools gathered in an unremarkable Ross classroom for what is the beginning of a remarkable...

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Big data conference speakers announced

Oct 6, 2016

The University of Michigan and U.S. Office of Financial Research are proud to present the speakers for this year's Big Data in Finance conference: Richard Berner Prior to his confirmation as OFR Director, Berner served as Counselor to the...

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ERISA advisory council testimony: why employees roll over their retirement accounts even when it hurts them

Oct 4, 2016

In testimony before the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, more commonly known as the ERISA Advisory Council on August 23, 2016, University of Michigan’s Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Business and Arthur F....

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Nothing left to lose? Research on low- and moderate-income Detroit households suggests otherwise

Sep 14, 2016

Center Faculty Director Michael Barr, along with Daniel Schaffa, PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan, with support from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, have released a working paper which analyzes the effect of the...

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Center launches new working paper series with financial stability conference papers

Sep 13, 2016

The Center on Finance, Law, and Policy is pleased to announce the creation of a new Working Paper series, by releasing six working papers produced by scholars as a result of the Center’s 2015 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability”...

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A system-wide approach to measure connectivity in the financial sector

Aug 17, 2016

Ever since the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 devastated the U.S. economy, many have tried to measure systemic risk — that is, the risk that the entire financial system will fail all at once. University of Michigan Finance Professor Amiyatosh...

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Article: Is the regime of algorithmic traders making the financial world more dangerous?

Aug 10, 2016

In an article published in The Conversation, Michael Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, considers the role of algorithmic traders (also known as algos, bots, and AIs) as...

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Big data conference registration now available

Aug 9, 2016

Online registration is now available for the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law and Policy’s second annual conference with the federal Office of Financial Research. This year’s theme, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and...

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