Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in access to homeownership have created the need to examine whether—and how—to change aspects of the complex and rapidly changing housing US finance system.

In 2016, MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) focused its annual conference on recent research aimed at shedding new light on the financial crisis. Topics included matters relating to securitization, housing and the mortgage market, government regulation, and systemic risk.

Join the MIT GCFP for the next event in our Distinguished Speaker series. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce will discuss current issues in financial policy and the SEC with our host S.P. Kothari, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at Sloan.

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion with Søren Elbech, former Treasurer at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), who will share insights gained from his experience as a capital markets executive in both the public and private sectors across capital raising, financial investments, product...

We are making breakthroughs almost weekly in our understanding of cancer and other deadly diseases, both in how to treat and – in some cases – how to cure them [...]

In a comment letter to the Office of Management and Budget on Circular A-4 that guides federal agencies in conducting benefit-cost analyses, a dozen MIT professors, many affiliated with the Golub Center for Finance and Policy, offered suggestions [...]

The MIT CFP Distinguished Speaker Series invites you to a lunch talk by Sadeq Sayeed, Chairman of Metage Capital Limited

GCFP hosted University of Waterloo’s Blair Feltmate and MIT Sloan’s Robert Pindyck and Jason Jay for a presentation and panel discussion on May 7. Click here for the recording, including […]

In conjunction with the Sloan Finance and Policy Club, the Center led approximately 20 graduate students on a trek of Washington, D.C. on March 10 to tour a few of the most important agencies at the intersection of government and finance. The objective of the trip was to show [...]

We are pleased to bring you this year’s annual conference, titled “Financial Policy and the Environment,” hosted in partnership with Barclays, on Wednesday, October 20 and Thursday, October 21, 2021.