Economists view a carbon tax as an effective solution to lower emissions, yet the US has not implemented one. Has the time come? Jeff Meli and MIT Professor Deborah J. Lucas discuss on The Flip Side Podcast Episode 39: Is the US ready for a carbon tax?

On October 20, former Inter-American Development Bank Treasurer Søren Elbech visited the Golub Center for Finance and Policy for a lunchtime discussion with students and faculty. Drawing on his experience in capital markets...

The MIT Sloan Financial Market and Policy Club is a new student organization dedicated to promoting the idea of “Finance for Social Good.”

CFP welcomes Professor Jonathan A. Parker as its newest co-director. Parker will join the Center’s leadership team, where he will help set the direction for the CFP’s research and educational initiatives.

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 [...]

MIT GCFP and MIT LFE Spring Open House - Join us for [...]

On October 4, 2018, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Distinguished Speaker Series, the MIT Department of Economics, the Sloan Finance and Policy Club, and the Undergraduate Economics Association hosted a public lunchtime lecture and Q&A with Mervyn King, Lord King of Lothbury, KG, GBE, FB...