Friend or Foe: Cross-Border Links, Contagious Banking Crises, and Joint Use of Macroprudential Policies

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 […]

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...

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...

Ask most finance experts about the “world’s largest financial institutions,” and you’ll hear names like Citigroup, ICBC (China’s largest bank) and HSBC. However, governments top the list of large financial institutions, with investment and insurance operations that dwarf those of any private enterpr...

The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy is proud to be highlighted by “From Ideas to Inventions: 103 Ways MIT is Making a Better World.” MIT is home to some of the most innovative problem-solvers in the world, across 30 departments as well as in dozens of centers, labs, and programs. We are hono...

In a recent Boston Globe article about rising interest rates, Eric Rosengren, a visiting professor with the Center and former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, offers his perspective.

The Golub Center congratulates the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 winner, Ben S. Bernanke.

by Luis Enrique Vivas Martinez / We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform.

Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. That legislation recognized that existing regulations were inadequately designed to protect against systemic ri...