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...

by Laura E. Kodres, Leslie Sheng Shen, and Darrell Duffie | The need for US dollar funding during the financial stresses in mid-March 2020, as the COVID pandemic news shocked markets, was evident in a number of countries.

Does the provision of leverage to retail traders improve market quality or facilitate [...]

Please read the published press release below from PR Newswire: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The MIT Center for Finance and Policy (CFP) and the Harvard Crowd Innovation Laboratory (CIL) are launching a contest to generate new proposals for criteria that regulators sho...

A group of top financial economists from universities around the country, including many of my colleagues at Sloan, released a letter this week urging Congress to [...]

As nearly 2,000 professionals with an interest in government financial management gathered in Boston for the 2017 Professional Development Training of the Association of Government Accountants, the Golub Center was well represented throughout the week by Executive Director Doug Criscitello.

Memorial tribute to Stan Fischer.

Başak Tanyeri, an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bilkent University, visited the CFP this summer to pursue a new research project evaluating the performance of public banks. Using a large and newly available [...]

"Digital Euro: Vision, Advancements, and Challenges"

Borzekowski discussed the importance of empirical findings in consumer finance research. He presented some innovative [...]