Center for the Study of Central Banks

Center for the Study of Central Banks
Director: Geoffrey P. Miller, Professor Law
Executive Director: Kathleen Hinton-Braaten, J.D.

New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South, VH 411
New York, New York 10012

Telephone: 212-998-6322 FAX: 212-995-4659
E-mail address: banks@turing.law.nyu.edu
WWW address: http://www1.law.nyu.edu/centralbanks
OR http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/CSCB/CSCB.html

The Center has three basic goals:

To encourage scholarly research on central banks

To collect and disseminate information relating to the powers, personnel, functions, and activities of central banks

To facilitate discussion among central bank personnel, scholars, and those in related fields, through regular regional and international conferences

PUBLICATIONS

The Center is developing a variety of central bank publications, intended for distribution in print or electronic media.

Central Bank Journal

The Center will establish a journal containing cutting edge research on problems and issues confronting central banks around the world. Contributors will include key central bank officials, scholars in the fields of law, economics, and political science as well as researchers in central banks and the major international institutions.

Central Bank Electronic Bulletin Board

The bulletin board will be linked to the Center's home page on the World Wide Web. It focuses on current events and activities of central banks around the world.

World Wide Web Database

The Center is developing a database of key documents related to central banks and financial institutions, including political constitutions, central bank and commercial banking statutes, as well as regulations governing issues such as deposit insurance, lender-of-last-resort function, prudential supervision, capital adequacy, bank powers, and other regulatory matters. A comprehensive worldwide bibliography of published and unpublished works related to central banks and financial systems is being developed as a parallel project.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Center is guided in its work by its Board of Distinguished Advisors, whose members are individuals of international stature with distinguished backgrounds in central banking, commercial or investment banking, and other related fields. In addition, the Center includes Affiliated Scholars from institutions in the United States and abroad. A separate Editorial Board will be established for the Center's journal and a Central Bank Liaison program will be established with individual central banks.

Chairman of the Center for the Study of Central Banks is Geoffrey P. Miller, an internationally-recognized banking scholar and specialist in the field of law and economics. The author of four books and over two hundred articles, he serves as Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Kathleen Hinton-Braaten is Executive Director of the Center. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, specializing in central banks. Ms. Hinton-Braaten has had a previous career as well, as a violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.

Senior Advisor for Public Affairs is Marcia Wachs Dam. She was previously Director of Public Affairs at the Institute for EastWest Studies, a research institution devoted to contemporary economic, political and foreign policy issues in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Board of Distinguished Advisors: Edward M. Bernstein, the Brookings Institution; Donald T. Brash, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand; Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of American and International Law, University of Chicago Law School, former Deputy Secretary of State; Roque B. Fernandez, President, Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina; Ruth de Krivoy, President, Sintesis Financiera CA, former President, Banco Central de Venezuela; Sylvia Ostry, Chairman, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; Gyorgy Szapary, First Deputy President, National Bank of Hungary.

Affiliated Scholars: Joseph Aschheim, Professor of Economics, George Washington University; Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School; Werner F. Ebke, Professor of Law, University of Konstanz, Germany; Klaus J. Hopt, Director, Institute for International Law and European and International Economic Law, University of Munich, Germany; Hideki Kanda, Professor of Law, Tokyo University, Japan; Anil K. Kashyap, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Randall Kroszner, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Rosa M. Lastra, Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Charles Lipson, Chairman, Committee on International Relations, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Jonathan R. Macey, J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University; Sylvia Maxfield, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Geoffrey P. Miller, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Jonas Prager, Associate Professor of Economics, New York University; Jaime Reis, Economist, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal; Daniel N. Shaviro, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Pierre Siklos, School of Business and Economics, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Larry A. Sjaastad, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; George Tavlas, Deputy Division Chief, Financial Relations Division, Treasurer's Department, International Monetary Fund; Richard H. Timberlake, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Georgia; John T. Woolley, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Dali Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Research Associates: Juan Carlos Antunez, U.S.A., Jose Alberto Balbuena Balbuena, Mexico; Stefania Baroncelli, Italy; Luis de Bernardis, Peru; Jose Luis Cruzat, Chile; Galab Dhungana, Nepal; Kevin Fazendeiro, United States; Matteo Marzi, Italy; Daniela Micuda, Romania; Mario Perales, Mexico; Goran Rajsic, Yugoslavia; Snezana Rajsic, Yugoslava; Nina Shrestha, Nepal; Marcos Silva, Brazil; Ricardo Veirano, Brazil