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Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction (2021)
Journal Article
Sissoko, C. (2022). Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction. Economic History Review, 75(2), 601-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13110

This paper studies in detail the changes that took place in the Bank of England’s Restriction era policies governing private sector lending. We find that the Bank was adapting to novel monetary circumstances, created both by the evolution of the Engl... Read More about Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction.

Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital (2021)
Journal Article
Sissoko, C. (2021). Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital. Development and Change, 52(1), 192-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12629

This review essay of Katharina Pistor's Code of Capital summarizes her argument: legal practice is all about the design of capital assets so that their owners' interests are maximized, and so that courts will not stop these owners from taking unfair... Read More about Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital.