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The purpose of this note is to suggest answers to several fundamental questions about value of the federal government’s support for the GSEs.
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The MIT Center for Finance and Policy recently announced the winners [...]
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Nearly 250 MIT Sloan alumni and guests gathered in Shanghai on July 19, 2013 for the third MIT Sloan Finance Forum (the first was held in New York in April 2012 and the second was held in London in June 2013).
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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 [...]
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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...
A special section of the GCFP blog to provide a forum for academics, practitioners and policymakers to analyze proposed policy initiatives and to suggest new ones
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by Ed Golding, Michelle Aronowitz and Jung Choi // This paper demonstrates that Black homeowners on average will pay $67,320 more for their houses because...
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We all have heard about these “unprecedented times” and how we need to throw the old play book out and try something new. For decades, we have had established protocols on [...]
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In a paper published in the Harvard Data Science Review on May 14, 2020, the co-director of GCFP, Andrew Lo, along with his co-authors Kien Wei Siah and Chi Heem Wong, estimate the probability of success (PoS) of [...]
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"Digital Euro: Vision, Advancements, and Challenges"
