Robert C. Pozen, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and non-resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. That legislation recognized that existing regulations were inadequately designed to protect against systemic ri...
With debt burdens mounting in the United States and abroad, policymakers have shown renewed interest in using government investment strategies to address fiscal imbalances. In this policy brief, MIT Sloan Distinguished Professor and MIT GCFP [...]
Sloan Professor Andrew Lo, co-director of the CFP and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, saw his pioneering work on how financial engineering could revolutionize funding for translational medical research take an important step forward this week, with the introduction of [...]
Please click here to read the WSJ.com article How Federal Lending Programs Served as a Big Shadow Stimulus which discusses Deborah Lucas’ paper Credit policy as fiscal policy.
The Cambridge/Boston academic, policy and practitioner communities are fortunate to include many people with deep expertise and interest in financial policy. Yet opportunities to gather for in-depth conversations about [...]
Visiting Scholar Xun Wu, a PhD student at Tsinghua University, is in residence at the CFP for the 2014-15 academic year to pursue his dissertation research on “Chinese Local Government Indebtedness: Systemic Risk and Financial Cost.”
Chester Spatt was interviewed by Kenneth Durr of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society last year about his time at the Commission as Chief Economist. A transcript of the interview can be found here; audio of the conversation is below.
On October 20, former Inter-American Development Bank Treasurer Søren Elbech visited the Golub Center for Finance and Policy for a lunchtime discussion with students and faculty. Drawing on his experience in capital markets...
The United States government today is one of the largest consumer lending institutions in the world. Its expansive loan portfolio has been growing for years with little attention given to […]
