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The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life

A new book from David Thesmar (MIT Sloan) and Augustin Landier (HEC Paris) examines the interplay between moral values and economic factors – our values guide us, but we are also forced to consider economic costs to settle decisions.

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Credit where it’s due

MIT Sloan’s Christopher Palmer has produced new insights about household finance, thanks to razor-sharp empirical studies.

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Ideas Made to Matter: 4 ways that AI and tech are reshaping finance


Generative AI and financial data are opening up the digital economy to more consumers and small businesses, but crypto concerns remain.

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Dismantling the CFPB would turn the consumer finance world into the 'wild, wild west,' its former director says  – A new article from Business Insider, February 10th 2025

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Consumer Credit Markets from Christopher Palmer

MIT Sloan’s Christopher Palmer discusses how consumer credit markets impact household finance, investment and policy in the latest issue of the NBER’s The Reporter

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Parker, Schoar and Sun awarded the 2024 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security from the TIAA Institute

For the paper Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of Target Date Funds

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Today in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Financial Advice and Investor Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Active vs. Passive Strategies

A new study from Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan) and Yang Sun (Brandeis International School of Business)

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The Rational Reminder Podcast – June 20th, 2024 with Antoinette Schoar

This week Antoinette Schoar joined the hosts of The Rational Reminder Podcast for a discussion about consumer finance, crypto, target date funds and more.

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Ideas Made to Matter: Lending standards can be too tight for too long, research finds

When the lending market is too tight, competition among lenders can lead to excessive due diligence, prolonging a credit crunch.

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