GCFP Advisory Board Member Mac McQuown was elected to the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame last week for his groundbreaking work in the field. In his acceptance speech, […]

MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy announces the winner of its contest to engineer a better retirement plan for public sector employees. The team was...

Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, recently authored Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation in his capacity as a senior fellow at [...]

The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy will distribute a prize pool of $20,000 to the winners.

Federal credit program managers and other subject area experts from government, industry, and academia took part in a recent conference co-sponsored by the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy […]

by Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek

Robert Merton (School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics and GCFP co-director) has long advocated for better ways to save for retirement. His concept of Retirement Security Bonds (RSB’s) would allow [...]

Does the provision of leverage to retail traders improve market quality or facilitate [...]

This January, Doug Criscitello taught a new, for-credit class on the role of the U.S. government as a financial institution. The course touched on the history of government involvement in the credit marketplace, the economic rationale for credit intervention, and the many ways the U.S. government fu...

In the past five years, financial regulators have become increasingly attuned to the necessity for cultural change in the financial industry. Recognizing that [...]