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Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]
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Greece recently failed to pay $1.7 billion due to the IMF, thereby becoming the first developed country to default on an IMF loan. That missed payment represents only a portion of the approximately $23 billion in IMF credit outstanding to Greece, suggesting the ultimate losses to the Fund could be m...
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The U.S. government’s ubiquitous role providing credit—mostly to students and homeowners—in the post-financial crisis economy is unmistakable but the ultimate costs to taxpayers can be far from obvious. While nearly all of the deliberation and debate about the price of extending government credit is...
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MIT GCFP 6th Annual Conference: Retirement Finance: Policies for a Better Path Forward
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Nearly one decade after the Global Financial Crisis, regulators and policymakers are rolling back post-Crisis regulations, including regulations meant to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements as well as ‘living wills’ for large banks. What where the major initiatives taken since 2008 to stre...
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The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) recently proposed accounting standards for U.S. government-related insurance programs and is seeking public comment through March 29, 2016. Programs under consideration include insurance and non-loan guarantee programs authorized by law to comp...
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Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, recently authored Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation in his capacity as a senior fellow at [...]
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MIT GCFP Blog Series
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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 [...]
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China’s Growing Local Government Debt Levels - New MIT Report provides a snapshot of debt levels over time
