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 […]

What will people say 1,000 years from now when they look back at the conventional wisdom about financial policy today? Peter Fisher of the Tuck School at Dartmouth College reflected on that question in his keynote speech at the Inaugural Conference on Finance and Policy held at MIT Sloan on Septembe...

We are making breakthroughs almost weekly in our understanding of cancer and other deadly diseases, both in how to treat and – in some cases – how to cure them [...]

This guest blog post, by former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, was prepared while he was recently in residence at the Golub Center as a Distinguished Fellow.

Deborah Lucas, the Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and the Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, discussed the 10-year anniversary of the financial crisis during an #MITSloanExperts Twitter chat on October 30.

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 [...]

We propose a New Keynesian model with monetary-fiscal policy regime switch to explain the time-varying correlation between returns on the market portfolio and nominal Treasury bonds found in [...]

The Center for Finance and Policy (CFP) hosted a conference in Washington DC on October 29, 2015 — along with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the American Society of Public Administration — to bring together lending practitioners within [...]

The Center for Finance and Policy has teamed with The SWIFT Institute to host a conference this fall to explore areas that could result in better interactions between [...]

This January, Doug Criscitello taught a new, for-credit class on the role of the U.S. government as a financial institution. The course touched on the history of government involvement in the credit marketplace, the economic rationale for credit intervention, and the many ways the U.S. government fu...