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The Latest From Our Team
Banks’ climate pledges don’t add up to change, research finds
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Voluntary climate commitments by financial institutions aren’t having a positive impact, research finds. But banks do have time to reverse course and make progress.
Want to invest wisely? Check your prior beliefs at the door
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When investors cling to existing beliefs, they underestimate good financial advice and miss out on opportunities, new research finds.
Banks are making climate commitments, are they making a difference?
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“Overall, it seems like there have been substantial commitments that have not really translated into meaningful changes in these banks’ business models."
Lending standards can be too tight for too long, research finds
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When banks tighten lending standards following a shock, they can set off a chain reaction that can worsen and prolong a credit crunch.
Our Mission
Our research aims to build an understanding of the benefits and risks as technologies change consumer financial markets. How are people, markets, and financial institutions leveraging new technologies to deal with the classic challenges of consumer financial services? And how do these challenges affect the allocation of risks across the economy and the regulatory landscape?
Our current areas of focus include Financial Decision Making, FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Savings and Lending Markets, and Retirement. Our Sloan Finance faculty researchers, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary set of researchers across Sloan and MIT, are working with extensive new data sets and new models to analyze household financial decisions and their implications for the economy and financial markets.