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GCFP appoints Jan Eberly as Distinguished Senior Fellow

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 [...]

Deborah Lucas and Ed Golding in the American Banker on preventing another SVB fiasco.

Edward Golding and Deborah Lucas discuss a simple policy change that relies primarily on market discipline that would reduce the likelihood of future SVBs.

MAY 4 – 2023 “BankThink: No, FHFA is not encouraging a race to the bottom.” Recently, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting in its capacity as conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, made some modest changes in the pricing of mortgage risk. These modest changes [...]

Former Golub Senior Fellow, Laura Kodres, discusses the similarities between what happened with British pension funds in autumn 2022 and SVB.

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...

Economists view a carbon tax as an effective solution to lower emissions, yet the US has not implemented one. Has the time come? Jeff Meli and MIT Professor Deborah J. Lucas discuss on The Flip Side Podcast Episode 39: Is the US ready for a carbon tax?

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 MIT Sloan Financial Market and Policy Club is a new student organization dedicated to promoting the idea of “Finance for Social Good.”