In the latest installment of the GCFP Distinguished Speaker Series, Jack Brennan, Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Board of Governors, discussed the [...]
Richard Berner of New York University’s Stern School of Management and Gary Gensler of MIT’s Sloan School of Management discuss fintech regulation in a “fireside chat.” Lunch will be provided.
Miriam Pozen Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture by Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
In conjunction with the Sloan Finance and Policy Club, the Center led approximately 20 graduate students on a trek of Washington, D.C. on March 10 to tour a few of the most important agencies at the intersection of government and finance. The objective of the trip was to show [...]
Federal credit program managers and other subject area experts from government, industry, and academia took part in a recent conference co-sponsored by the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy […]
A recent topic of debate in the U.S. budget community centers on how the federal government should estimate the cost of providing loans to various borrowers such as students and homebuyers. Currently costs are assessed assuming that the government’s cost of capital is equal to the Treasury rate. Pro...
Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why [...]
The advent of mandatory central clearing for certain types of over-the-counter derivatives and margin requirements for others means that margin is the most important mitigation mechanism for many [...]
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...
The White House released the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 on February 12, just days after President Trump signed a bill extending spending caps for military and domestic spending and suspending the debt ceiling. While the new law has already...
