This guest blog post, by former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, was prepared while he was recently in residence at the Golub Center as a Distinguished Fellow.

The purpose of this note is to suggest answers to several fundamental questions about value of the federal government’s support for the GSEs.

MIT students enjoyed an illuminating fireside chat with GCFP Distinguished Visiting Fellow Daniel Tarullo and Co-Director Jonathan Parker on [...]

Financial regulation is most effective when it targets the origins of the problem it seeks to remedy. This is akin to the medical adage: treat the cause, not the symptom. Identifying the causal factors driving distress in financial markets is no easy task. One complication is that the cause might li...