MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
Briefs & Blogs
Unicorns Everywhere: Renée Jones on Why Startups Are Staying Private Longer and What to Do About It
Law professor and former SEC division director Renée Jones discusses her new book Untamed Unicorns and ideas for reforming startup financing after decades of deregulation.
Regulating Asset Management: A Conversation with William Birdthistle
William Birdthistle, former director of the SEC's Investment Management division, offered his views on the frontiers of investment regulation in a recent visit to MIT Sloan.
On the 21st Century ROAD to Housing: What Congress Accomplished in 2026 and What Remains to Be Done
The latest rare bipartisan success in federal housing policy offers families scant immediate relief on housing affordability but could accelerate change at other levels of government, says Edward L. Golding.
Beyond Capital: A Trust- and Culture-Based Regulatory Framework for the Next Banking Crisis
The abrupt demise of Credit Suisse shows that capital and liquidity buffers alone can't salvage an institution that has exhausted the market's reservoir of trust.
The Proposed California Billionaire Wealth Tax Produces Inequities and Adverse Incentives
In a new guest commentary for the Golub Center, Professors Ray Ball and Andrew Sutherland argue that CA's proposal will struggle to accurately value and tax billionaire assets and may even drive away some of the state’s largest taxpayers.
Anatomy of a Supervisory Failure
For its entire 15-year life as a regional bank, Silicon Valley Bank held the same risky bet. Our Research Associate, Niccolo Comati, explains how the bank's collapse is a story of a supervisory system that polices process rather than risk.
Peter R. Fisher Named to Federal Reserve Communications Task Force
Peter R. Fisher, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) 2025-2026, has been named to one of five task forces the Federal Reserve has convened to review the conduct of monetary policy.
The Limits of Mortgage Credit Risk Transfer
Deborah Lucas presented her research paper with GCFP coauthors Niccolo Comati and Edward Golding, “Credit Risk Transfer and the Pricing of Mortgage Default Risk" at a recent conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on May 29, 2026,
Moving Beyond Safe vs. Risky Treasury Debt
Deborah Lucas offered her views on “US Treasury Debt and Fiscal Sustainability” at the SFS Cavalcade conference in Charlottesville, VA on May 20.
GCFP Appoints Haoxiang Zhu as Co-Director
Haoxiang Zhu, distinguished scholar and former SEC official, will help advance the GCFP's mission at MIT Sloan School of Management. | Haoxiang Zhu appointed co-director of MIT Sloan’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy