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The Shadow Payment System, Dan Awrey, Kristin Van Zwieten
The Shadow Payment System, Dan Awrey, Kristin Van Zwieten
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Banking, derivatives, and structured finance may attract the lion's share of accolades and approbation in global finance-but payment systems are where the money is. Historically, payment systems in most jurisdictions have been legally and operationally intertwined with the conventional banking system. The stability of these payment systems has thus parasitically benefited from the unique prudential regulatory strategies imposed on deposit-taking banks. These strategies include emergency liquidity assistance or "lender of last resort" facilities, deposit guarantee schemes, and special bankruptcy or "resolution" regimes for failing banks. Importantly, these strategies have the practical effect of relaxing the strict application of corporate bankruptcy …
The Capital Commons: Digital Money And Citizens' Finance In A Productive Commercial Republic, Robert C. Hockett
The Capital Commons: Digital Money And Citizens' Finance In A Productive Commercial Republic, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
All societies must address two questions where the organization of productive activity is concerned. The first is whether production will be mainly publicly managed, privately managed, or 'mixed.' The second is whether the financing of production will be mainly publicly managed, privately managed, or mixed.
In the American commercial republic, we seem more or less to have answered the 'who does production' question to our own satisfaction. From the founding era to the present, we have elected to leave production primarily, though not of course solely, 'in private hands.' Where the financing of production is concerned, on the other hand, …