Nearly 250 MIT Sloan alumni and guests gathered in Shanghai on July 19, 2013 for the third MIT Sloan Finance Forum (the first was held in New York in April 2012 and the second was held in London in June 2013).

MIT panel talks fiscal, global, and legal consequences of the government’s near-default. When MIT Sloan professor Deborah Lucas scheduled a panel discussion titled “U.S. Fiscal Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” the government was shut down, no compromise seemed imminent, and what the state of affair...

Last week Bob Pozen, a Visiting Senior Lecturer here at MIT Sloan with a distinguished background in government, business and education gave an eye-opening lunch talk. The topic was “Other Post-Employment Benefits” or OPEBs—which is accounting jargon for the liabilities governments incur for retiree...

What will people say 1,000 years from now when they look back at the conventional wisdom about financial policy today? Peter Fisher of the Tuck School at Dartmouth College reflected on that question in his keynote speech at the Inaugural Conference on Finance and Policy held at MIT Sloan on Septembe...

In early 2018, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab announced the joint appointment of Gary Gensler as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of […]

by Laura E. Kodres, Leslie Sheng Shen, and Darrell Duffie | The need for US dollar funding during the financial stresses in mid-March 2020, as the COVID pandemic news shocked markets, was evident in a number of countries.

Friend or Foe: Cross-Border Links, Contagious Banking Crises, and Joint Use of Macroprudential Policies

In a response to the July 2021 Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Policy Statement on Fair Lending, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials Michelle Aronowitz (Law Office […]