MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
Briefs & Blogs
TUE DEC 9: President Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Miriam Pozen Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture by Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
A Fireside Chat with Peter Fisher and Andrew W. Lo
Behind the headlines lies a widening gap between U.S. fiscal revenues and outlays—a structural imbalance with profound implications for the Federal Reserve and the broader economy. Join Peter Fisher—Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy [...]
The Economics of Government Investment Policies and Why They Cannot Undo Fiscal Imbalances
With debt burdens mounting in the United States and abroad, policymakers have shown renewed interest in using government investment strategies to address fiscal imbalances. In this policy brief, MIT Sloan Distinguished Professor and MIT GCFP [...]
Former Boston Fed President Rosengren: The Fed will have to rely on 'noisier' data during shutdown
MIT GCFP Visiting Scholar and former Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren weighs in on how the government shutdown affects the Federal Reserve’s access to economic data.
Measuring Financial Subsidies to SOEs
Measuring Financial Subsidies to SOEs: An Asset Return Based Framework with an Application to TVA (working paper)
Recent Research Informing Financial Policy from around MIT
2025 papers from GCFP affiliates
Ditch quarterly earnings like Trump says? What’s needed is better reporting — not less.
MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer and former President of Fidelity Investments Bob Pozen discusses the implications of changing corporate financial reporting practices.
Seeking Graduate Student Assistant
Peter R. Fisher's advertisement for a position as a Course Development Assistant for Fall 2025.
Bob Pozen on the National Debt
Marketwatch opinion article by Robert Pozen.