Nearly seven years since the housing market collapse and the establishment of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorships, promises to [...]

“2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review” was a major event marking the anniversary of the 2008 global financial crisis. In conjunction with [...]

MIT GCFP 6th Annual Conference: Retirement Finance: Policies for a Better Path Forward

This is a free in-person event, to be livestreamed. Except for press, no registration is required. Members of the press are required to register in advance of the event.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s new Banking Reform Clearinghouse, or BRiC. With the recent passage of the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 in the U.S. House of Representatives and the [...]

We are pleased to bring you this year’s annual conference, titled “Financial Policy and the Environment,” hosted in partnership with Barclays, on Wednesday, October 20 and Thursday, October 21, 2021.

Long touted by economists, carbon taxes are transparent, enforceable, and adjustable. An MIT Sloan finance professor explains her [...]

Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in access to homeownership have created the need to examine whether—and how—to change aspects of the complex and rapidly changing housing US finance system. This challenge, and the foundational questions it raises, will be [...]

The MIT GCFP announced that Mario Draghi has been named the winner of the Miriam Pozen Prize in recognition of his leadership in international financial policy. Draghi, a longtime academic economist and public servant, served as prime minister of Italy until [...]

On Wednesday, October 19 and Thursday, October 20, MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) hosts its 9th annual conference “Building and Regulating the New Financial Infrastructure,” co-sponsored by Barclays. This year we’ll focus on [...]