MIT Center for Finance and Policy invites you to a conversation with Barney Frank, former Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and key architect of the Dodd-Frank Act.
The MIT Center for Finance and Policy recently announced the winners [...]
The COVID-19 induced ‘Great Lockdown’ has cast doubt on the efficacy of bank buffers in supporting the real economy in times of crisis. Despite accommodative regulatory and supervisory action, banks remain hesitant to [...]
Governments worldwide increasingly rely on contingent claims such as deposit insurance, too-big-to-fail guarantees, credit support for firms and households, and disaster insurance to accomplish policy goals. What are the micro- and macro-economic consequences of [...]
Today the MIT CFP announced the winners of its first crowd-sourced contest, “What is a Systemically Important Financial Institution?” A collaboration between the MIT Center for Finance and Policy and the Harvard Crowd Innovation Laboratory, the contest was launched to generate new proposals to speci...
Miriam Pozen Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture by Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
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...
Jonathan Parker, Robert C. Merton Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan and co-director at the MIT GCFP, recently provided answers on [...]
MIT GCFP - The Flip Side Podcast, Episode 29
Panelists discuss the causes and consequences of the recent SVB collapse.
