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Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
Department: Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 253-7190, bonatti@mit.edu
Expertise: Advertising; Applied economics; Auctions; Competition; Economics; Electronic media; Europe; European Union; Game theory; Google; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Insurance; Internet; Italy; Media; Microeconomics; Online shopping; Optimal control; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Social networks; Teams; Turkey
Associate Professor of Marketing
Contact: (617) 253-3436, braunm@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied probability; Bayesian statistics; Cable industry; Consumer measurement; Customer relationships and CRM; E-commerce; Electronic media; Insurance; Internet; Market research; Media; Online shopping; Product loyalty; Statistics; Web-based marketing
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management
Department: Associate Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 452-3761, jjdoyle@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied economics; Econometrics; Economics; Gas; Healthcare; Microeconomics; Pharmaceutical; Urban poverty
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 715-4816, dlucas@mit.edu
Expertise: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; federal budget; federal credit programs; government financial institutions; pensions; Social Security; student loans; valuation
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-6696, scmyers@mit.edu
Expertise: Banking; Corporate finance; Finance; Insurance; Pharmaceutical
Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor
Department: Associate Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 253-7159, tavneet@mit.edu
Expertise: Africa; Applied economics; Applied microeconomics; Developing countries; Developing countries, economics; Econometrics; Economics
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Contact: (617) 253-7157, jyates@mit.edu
Expertise: BlackBerry; Blogs; Changing work environments; Communication practices; Diversity; E-mail; Electronic communication; Future of work; Gender issues, workplace; Groupware; Information systems; Information technology; Information technology, history of; Information technology, impact of; Information technology, social aspects; Innovation; Insurance; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Leadership; Legacy information; Management of information technology; Managerial communication; Managing change; MBA; Mobile computing; Organization studies; Organizational change; Organizational communication; Teams; Wireless communication; Work environments; Working virtually; Writing and presentation skills
From The Huffington Post The U.S. government is arguably the largest financial institution in the world. If you add the outstanding stock of government loans, loan guarantees, pension insurance, deposit insurance and the guarantees made by federal entities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, you get to about $18 trillion of government-backed credit. Through those activities, the government has a first-order effect on the allocation of capital and risk in the economy. The question of what those commitments cost the public is important; accurate cost assessments are necessary for informed decisions by policymakers, effective program management, and meaningful public oversight. My research and that of others has shown that if one takes a financial economics approach to answering that question — one that is consistent with the methods used by private financial institutions to evaluate such costs — it leads to significantly higher estimates than the approach currently used … Read More »The post What Is the True Cost of Government-Backed Credit? — Deborah Lucas appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.
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