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Borzekowski will discuss the importance of empirical findings in consumer finance research. He will present some [...]
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As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) will be hosting Gary Gensler for a lunchtime seminar on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, where [...]
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The advent of mandatory central clearing for certain types of over-the-counter derivatives and margin requirements for others means that margin is the most important mitigation mechanism for many [...]
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Applying MIT Sloan’s unique brand of system thinking to the challenge of family social impact, Jason Jay and John Davis are helping families examine their enterprise as a dynamic system.
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MIT GCFP Blog Series
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This guest blog post, by former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, was prepared while he was recently in residence at the Golub Center as a Distinguished Fellow.
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With the arrival of a new Congress and a new administration, change may be in store for current and former students who have borrowed to pay for higher education expenses. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump indicated a desire to ease the debt burden carried by former students, and Republicans at ti...
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As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.
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In fragile economic times, the U.S. government occasionally enacts stimulus programs to provide a jolt to consumer spending. This was certainly the case during the Great Recession, when the government utilized both explicit stimulus programs, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200...
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The GCFP invites guest blog submissions to encourage discussion of important financial policy issues. This first guest posting, by Bob Pozen, proposes a “Third Type of Retirement Plan” that would address some of the stresses in public sector defined benefit pension plans while preserving much of the...
