Gary Gensler’s active first year at MIT
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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Friend or Foe: Cross-Border Links, Contagious Banking Crises, and Joint Use of Macroprudential Policies
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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 […]
by Daniel Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. More countries should follow Denmark’s example. As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standst
“Bailouts allow investors to keep all the profits in good times without bearing the losses in bad times. Instead, bailouts impose losses on taxpayers, including those most in danger of losing their […
Bloomberg Business Week. Deborah Lucas says, “You don’t want to blow up viable, going concerns, and that’s the biggest risk in the current situation. It’s worth paying a lot to […]
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Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...
While large numbers defy comprehension, Americans should try to wrap their minds around the huge sums of money owed on the fastest growing segment of the federal budget. The interest […]
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A heated debate is raging in Congress over whether to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The Ex-Im Bank, as it is commonly known, is an independent federal agency charged with providing credit assistance for U.S. exporters. Beneficiaries include large corporations (in 2012, over 80% of the guarante...