MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy

A Traditional Economic Stimulus Won’t Work. Here’s What Might.

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As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standstill, a severe drop in consumer demand is putting vast numbers of businesses at risk of bankruptcy, and millions of [...]

Mar 25, 2020
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Housing Finance Policy and the Coming Recession: Time to use current system to lower mortgage payments!

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Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]

Mar 25, 2020
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Finance profs to Congress: “Bail out people, not corporations”

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A group of top financial economists from universities around the country, including many of my colleagues at Sloan, released a letter this week urging Congress to [...]

Mar 25, 2020
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Tailoring Bank Regulations: How Did the Market React?

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Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. That legislation recognized that existing regulations were inadequately designed to protect against systemic ri...

Nov 6, 2019
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A Financial Public Private Partnership to Cure Rare Diseases

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A Financial Public Private Partnership to Cure Rare Diseases

Aug 16, 2019
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Improving the Transparency and Regulation of Proxy Advisory Firms

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Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, recently authored Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation in his capacity as a senior fellow at [...]

Jun 20, 2019
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Uncle Sam needs fresh strategy to manage federal lending programs

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The United States government today is one of the largest consumer lending institutions in the world. Its expansive loan portfolio has been growing for years with little attention given to […]

May 21, 2019
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GCFP launches contest to develop new type of retirement plan for the public sector

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The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy will distribute a prize pool of $20,000 to the winners.

Oct 24, 2018
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Graduate Student Work

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The Center benefits from the contributions of student interns both during the academic year and over the summer. Short descriptions of past graduate student work are available here.

Oct 15, 2018
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Introducing a new educational tool on housing finance reform

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by Luis Enrique Vivas Martinez / We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform.

Oct 4, 2018
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