The Cambridge/Boston academic, policy and practitioner communities are fortunate to include many people with deep expertise and interest in financial policy. Yet opportunities to gather for in-depth conversations about [...]

Memorial tribute to Stan Fischer.

This blog post is based on a talk presented at the Shadow Open Market Committee on February 11, 2022. The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy.

Authors James Freeman and Vern McKinley discuss their research on 200 years of Citi’s history as presented in their 2018 book Borrowed Time. Lunch will be provided.

A Conversation with Viral Acharya

The Cambridge/Boston academic, policy and practitioner communities are fortunate to include many people with deep expertise and interest in financial policy. Yet opportunities to gather for in-depth conversations about [...]

MIT panel talks fiscal, global, and legal consequences of the government’s near-default. When MIT Sloan professor Deborah Lucas scheduled a panel discussion titled “U.S. Fiscal Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” the government was shut down, no compromise seemed imminent, and what the state of affair...

Visiting Scholar Xun Wu, a PhD student at Tsinghua University, is in residence at the CFP for the 2014-15 academic year to pursue his dissertation research on “Chinese Local Government Indebtedness: Systemic Risk and Financial Cost.”

Nearly seven years since the housing market collapse and the establishment of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorships, promises to [...]

Four recent papers by MIT Sloan colleagues of the GCFP touch on important matters of financial policy.