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...
The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy is proud to be highlighted by “From Ideas to Inventions: 103 Ways MIT is Making a Better World.” MIT is home to some of the most innovative problem-solvers in the world, across 30 departments as well as in dozens of centers, labs, and programs. We are hono...
The Golub Center congratulates the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 winner, Ben S. Bernanke.
by Luis Enrique Vivas Martinez / We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform.
With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.
On Wednesday, October 19 and Thursday, October 20, MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) hosts its 9th annual conference “Building and Regulating the New Financial Infrastructure,” co-sponsored by Barclays. This year we’ll focus on [...]
In a new guest commentary for the Golub Center, Professors Ray Ball and Andrew Sutherland argue that CA's proposal will struggle to accurately value and tax billionaire assets and may even drive away some of the state’s largest taxpayers.
The latest rare bipartisan success in federal housing policy offers families scant immediate relief on housing affordability but could accelerate change at other levels of government, says Edward L. Golding.
The abrupt demise of Credit Suisse shows that capital and liquidity buffers alone can't salvage an institution that has exhausted the market's reservoir of trust.
For its entire 15-year life as a regional bank, Silicon Valley Bank held the same risky bet. Our Research Associate, Niccolo Comati, explains how the bank's collapse is a story of a supervisory system that polices process rather than risk.
