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Research Spotlight: During the current upheaval in the credit market, a big question is whether the government should bail out financial institutions and, if so, what is the best way to do that. According to MIT Sloan Professor Jiang Wang, government bailouts — interventions to directly inject liquidity into the market — are not necessarily a good thing and can actually decrease market efficiency. More >>

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Robert Merton returns to MIT Sloan

Merton Robert C. Merton, an architect of modern finance theory and Nobel laureate in economics, has rejoined the faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton first came to MIT as a graduate student in the 1960s to study under the late Paul Samuelson—the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics—who later became his mentor and collaborator.
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In the News: “Pension plans are like cars”, says Professor Robert C. Merton in a recent article published in Project M titled Road Testing a New Pension Approach, “it’s not the inner workings that interest people, but the results.” Read More >>

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