Are Circuit Breakers Doing Their Job?
Laura Kodres, Senior Distinguished Fellow, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
Laura Kodres, Senior Distinguished Fellow, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
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...
The 2025 Miriam Pozen Prize is on Dec. 9, 2025. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of the Republic of Singapore, was named the prize winner this year.
2025 papers from GCFP affiliates
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 US housing finance system.
In early 2018, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab announced the joint appointment of Gary Gensler as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of […]
GCFP Advisory Board Member Mac McQuown was elected to the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame last week for his groundbreaking work in the field. In his acceptance speech, […]
Open to the MIT Community. Economic Development through the Intersection of Public and Private Sector.
Economic Development through the Intersection of Public and Private Sector
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...