Addressing the role of FHFA in dismantling racial discrimination within the U.S. housing finance system

This blog post is based on a talk presented at the Shadow Open Market Committee on February 11, 2022. The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy.

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.

Gilt Market Dysfunction and Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) - A Progress Report

On December 11, 2023, the MIT GCFP brought together a panel of experts on housing and financial regulation to examine whether changes to the FHLBS might be warranted.

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 [...]

Robert Pozen, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer and member of the GCFP Advisory Board, writes in Market Watch that it is imperative for the government to take steps to preserve mid-sized banks. He offers [...]

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

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 [...]

Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why [...]