As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.

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 […]

MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy announces the winner of its contest to engineer a better retirement plan for public sector employees. The team was...

The GCFP invites guest blog submissions to encourage discussion of important financial policy issues. This first guest posting, by Bob Pozen, proposes a “Third Type of Retirement Plan” that would address some of the stresses in public sector defined benefit pension plans while preserving much of the...

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 [...]

With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.

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 [...]

MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) is pleased to announce the next speaker for our Distinguished Speakers Series forum, which [...]

A discussion of COVID-19 financial and economic policies and their most important short- and long-term implications for: